Platform/2008-10-21

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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 x92 Conf# 8605 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 8605 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #shiretoko for backchannel

Notices / Schedule

• Beta 2 Schedule
  • en-US string freeze is Thursday, October 30th at 11:59pm PDT
  • code freeze is Tuesday, November 4th at 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 Fsync-reduction Changes

• Goal: reduce fsyncs by writing to the disk less often, reducing hangs/freezes/sluggishness while browsing (especially hurting mobile, usb and some linux).
• Approach: keep non-critical history data in temporary tables, periodically flushing to permanent tables in the background.
• Problems
  • Ts (bug 459197)
    • Initial landing caused a regression of ~3% on linux and ~4% on windows (data)
    • With fixes, still seeing regressions: (data)
      • Linux is at 1-2% (30-40ms)
      • Windows XP is at ~2% (~20ms)
      • Windows Vista is at 1.2-2.5% (7-15ms) depending on which boxes you look at
  • Tp (bug 459235)
    • Initial landing caused a regression of about ~3% on OS X; possible regression on windows (data)
    • With fixes, possibly only small regression on mac, and ~1% win on linux (data)
• Solutions
  • This work is not going to make 3.1; push to next release and make no improvements in this area
  • slip beta 2 until we get the performance issues fixed with other performance improvements
  • let this work land and accept the fact that we'll take some small hits in some performance benchmarks

GFX 1.9.1 Update

• GFX blocking 1.9.1+
• GFX wanted 1.9.1+

Mac OS X 1.9.1 Update

• working on blockers
• Josh working on tests and various plugin bugs as well
• further filesystem work still in review

Layout 1.9.1 Update

• 1.9.1 Layout Bugs
• Video (roc/cdouble):
• Acid3: See comment 66 in the bug
• SVG CSS, roc:

Content 1.9.1 Update

• Content 1.9.1 Bugs
• Worker Threads:
• Cross-site XHR:

JS 1.9.1

• JS 1.9.1 Bugs

m-c blockers hurting daily browsing:

• Google Maps malfunction (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460024)

Blocking JIT by default:

• multi trees (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450833)
• slow script timeout (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450000)
• v8-richards misbehavior (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456384)
• Running Dijit Tree Test with Content JIT / Ubiquity (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451843)
• correctness bug with undefined turning to NaN (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=456479)

Not blocking JIT by default:

• jsMSX crash (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=458227)
• SCUMM VM crash (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455547)
• eval/let combo (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457065)
• CRASHED signal 10 SIGBUS using regress-271716-n.js (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=460518)
• js1_8/genexps/regress-380237-01.js: InternalError: too much recursion (64bit) (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=457660)
• LIRBufWriter null checking (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=451322)

Mobile 1.9.1 Update

General 1.9.1 Updates

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

Security

Security Reviews

Roundtable

• feedback on try-talos? Please add to bug 461012
• mothballing 1.8 / 1.9.0 machines?
• any upcoming tool changes after branch for FF3.1? Nope.