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Notices / Schedule

• Firefox 3.6.4 build #5
  • Can be downloaded here
  • Plan is to release to entire beta audience today once QA gives sign-off
    • Network issues may change this
  • Final release still planned for June 1

• Firefox 3.5.10
  • Final release still planned for June 1

Blocker Report

• Firefox 3.6.4
  • No known open blockers, YAY!
    • Thanks bsmedberg, jimm, and others

• Firefox 3.5.10
  • No known open blockers, YAY!

Browser / Front End

Planet Firefox loves you!

Paper cuts

• Is there any chance we can do updates on shutdown or in the background for FF4?
• Nobody's looking at the "rebuild profile" stuff yet, is that correct?

Theme

• Overview: bug 544823
• Dao and Gavin are the only reviewers available for most of the theme things, which seems risky (not because they're not awesome — because they are! — but there is a lot of work here)
• Can we start working on the menu as a normal toolbar item for now? Waiting for drawing in titlebar seems unnecessary. bug 556174
• Markus has posted patches for Mac tab styling and new buttons, any way we can get these reviewed & landed faster? bug 562733

In general: There will be lots of tweaking and polish needed, landing early is important.

• Anyone available to help Stephen Horlander with in-content CSS implementation? There's a new look to the in-content pages — Stephen is blogging about it this week — and we need people that are somewhat familiar with CSS and the in-content pages to take a look at getting it implemented.

Web Console (ddahl)

• Firefox Console feature needs platform help "getting the contentWindow or window ID from nsIConsoleMessages" bug 567165
• and: "create event or method to determine the source contentWindow of loading images and media" bug 568034

GFX Update

• Windows Vista/7 glass is turned back on! Please test things and file bugs.

Hardware Acceleration Update

• Direct3D 9 layers backend landed. This means you get full-screen, hardware-accelerated video on older Windows computers, including Windows XP (unlike D2D).

Layout Update

• WebM unveiled
  • Patches up in bugs for libvpx, libnestegg, nsWebMDecoder
  • Getting reviewed
  • Optimized assembly for VP8 only enabled for Win32/Mac32 currently (need YASM installed on Mac64/Linux builders)
  • Landing depends on working out license details
• Fullscreen video working very efficiently with GL
• Next steps for video: WebM bugfixing, 'buffered' TimeRanges, fullscreen API, backport WebM to 3.6?

• Update on retained layers
  • Working on scrolling performance
  • much faster on "difficult" pages
  • fixes tearing
  • working on optimizing simple scrolling cases for non-accelerated BasicLayers as much as possible, with help from Matt Woodrow on Windows and Karl on Linux
  • Just a couple more known issues before prepping for landing
  • A couple of possible major performance issues/optimization opportunities
    • will see whether we can defer until after landing

Content Update

• No updates this week.

Platform-specific Support Update

Electrolysis

• not exactly e10s, but please read and comment on XPCOM Startup
• jetpack + e10s planning a lot this week, specifically finalizing the pagemods API
• chrome-only necko flipped on in the electrolysis branch by default
• preparations for running mochitest with OOP tabs, which is the big blocker remaining for merging e10s to mozilla-central, which is planned for the next few weeks
  • this is a preference on the <browser> tag
  • using it with Firefox will completely not work at this time

Startup Performance

Security

Breakpad

Tree Management

• branching for mozilla-1.9.3 will start after tryserver rollout, be ready for FF4beta1 next month (beltzner)
• mothballing FF3.0 machines next week bug 554226
• TryServer switchover status
• disabling unittest-on-builder for centos5 this week
• Windows 64 bit builds (armenzg)
  • compile-and-link ok (almost, but crash-on-startup
  • win7x64 builds will be produced this week
  • will make builds available (hidden) for anyone who can help
  • who from engineering can help?
• need help with osx106 64bit build symbols bug 558947
• need help on 64bit breakpad bug 567424

Roundtable

• Possibility of landing an experimental version of SQLite that reduces the number of fsyncs in a safe manner (plus other wins). (sdwilsh)

• Mozilla 1.9.3 Developer Preview 5 (beltzner)
  • HTML5 Parser
  • WebM
  • who's driving?
  • timeline (juanb)