Platform/2008-09-16

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Details

• Tuesday - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 19:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S - <script> conference room
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel

Notices / Schedule

• 1.9.1 Beta 1 Freeze Tuesday, Sep 30 @11:59PM PDT.
• Please take a look at the feature list and get things missing added, and update status for things you own: Firefox3.1/Features#Gecko_1.9.1
• See the security review schedule page to get your review scheduled ASAP!

Firefox 3.1 Update

Places Update

• Fsync: still testing, near landing (sdwilsh, marco)
• Tag autocomplete: minor visual tweaks, near landing (dietrich)
• Bulk tagging: at risk (dietrich)

The following features are on target for landing in Beta 1:

• places performance improvements
• tag autocomplete in add bookmark dialog (needs reviews, ui-reviews)
• drag & drop improvements in library (needs reviews)
• preview all tabs (needs reviews, ui-reviews)
• startup performance gains due to search service fixes
• password manager polish & SQLite migration
• unifying default download location on OSX (needs reviews)

These features are on target for landing in Beta 2:

• windows default toolbar refresh
• using asynchronous queries for awesomebar lookups
• SSL UI polish
• <video> front end
• drag and drop detach tabs

Evaluation is underway to define the scope of features for Beta 2:

• Private Browsing / Clear Private Data improvements
• Better experience for finding & installing plugins
• Improvements to Awesomebar
• adding site specific functionality to site identity button, auto site logon
• tab close animations, new tab button, show tab strip by default
• displaying PDFs inline on OSX
• better opensearch UI

GFX 1.9.1 Update

• GFX blocking 1.9.1+
• GFX wanted 1.9.1+
• Performance:
  • Focused on mobile work
• CMS:
  • Landed initially fully-on; caused (expected) 4-5% perf hit
  • Was re-landed enabled for tagged images only

Layout 1.9.1 Update

• Triage status? 72 layout blocking1.9.1? bugs.
• 1.9.1 Layout Bugs
• Video (roc/cdouble):
• Acid3:
• SMIL (dholbert):
  • Did some decomamination and general cleanup
  • Hoping to post patch for review today
• SVG CSS, roc:
• CSS transforms - keith:
  • Landed! (bug 435293)

Content 1.9.1 Update

• Are we triaging? 45 blocking1.9.1? bugs
• Content 1.9.1 Bugs
• Worker Threads: XHR-X up for review, a few other bugs too, starting on JSON today.
• Cross-site XHR:

JS 1.9.1

• JS 1.9.1 Bugs
• mostly focusing on tracing correctness
• landed string trim/ltrim/rtrim
• recursion work progressing as well
• attempting to get test suite running fully under JIT

Mobile 1.9.1 Update

• Mobile 1.9.1 Platform Bugs

General 1.9.1 Updates

• offline cache, dcamp:
• localStorage, honzab:
• HTML5 drag-drop:

Security

Security Reviews

Roundtable

• single-threaded XPConnect... see post to md.platform and bug 455548. Is this something we should consider for 3.1? (bsmedberg)