Platform/2012-09-04

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Notices / Schedule

• Please start re-focusing on bugs tracked for FF16 and 17
  • Emails to teams owning FF16/17 tracked bugs will be going out shortly

• FF16 b2 is going to build this morning (PT)
  • Mobile will be released Wednesday with ARMv6 support
  • Desktop will be released before the end of the week

• We're targeting full Win8 Classic support in FF16 - stay tuned for test day details
  • If you're running Win8 (please do) and run into critical issues, nominate for tracking

• FF15.0 remains throttled - we'll be discussing 15.0.1 drivers this afternoon at the channel meeting

Firefox OS

(no audible, dietrich got pulled into another meeting)

• Dashboard of platform+Gaia blocker owners, and estimated vs not-estimated bugs
• Very productive week in Brazil - lots of apps nearly complete, final visual design showing up, lots of platform bugs and APIs landed.
• Links: Gaia meeting notes, B2G meeting notes, Triage schedule, Tracking doc

Firefox Development

• Dao landed a bunch of tab dragging regression fixes: bug 786593, bug 786291, bug 786495
• Snappy work week next week in Warsaw

Firefox Developer Tools

New landings over the last few weeks:

• New HTML panel
• Reload fixes for the debugger
• Highlighter perf/visiblity improvements
• Whole-source search in the debugger: bug 774788

Add-on SDK

• Great work week success! http://canuckistani.ca/blog/2012/09/01/jetpack-work-week/
• Fixed a bunch of potential leaks and performance problems with page-mods
• Work on security for page-mods
• Tabs API for mobile undergoing review
• Progress on UI work for add-ons

Performance

• This week's Snappy summary

• MozCamp EU performance session this Sunday - All About Performance
• Snappy work week next week.

• Vlad and Nicolas landed a big perf with for start-up - stop validating certificates for signed extensions on start-up (bug 726125).
• Pat removed main thread DNS queries due to proxy configuration (bug 769764). This change breaks all proxy related add-ons. Pat is reaching out to change their API usage.
• Timothy fixed extreme lag during text input on Web forms in Aurora and Nightly (bug 786421).

GFX

JS

• Harmony Direct Proxies (bug 703537). Eddy Bruel.

Layout

• Bugs of interest:
  • Allow access to the rules of cross-origin sheets that have undergone a CORS check (bug 732209)
  • don't let wheel events scroll things that are overflow:hidden (bug 674477)
• Scott blogged about reflow-on-zoom prototyping

Media

DOM

WebAPI

• multiple recent work weeks
  • lots of great discussions
  • face to face reviews
  • planning
• B2G payments and updates progressing well
• many bug fixes

Network

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

• new updater landed, bounced and re-landed bug 786380

Accessibility

• Eitan made a quick (2:42) screencast/demo of the Firefox OS Screen reader. Note TTS (Text-To-Speech) is not on trunk yet.

Tree Management

• OSX 10.8 tests in production http://relengofthenerds.blogspot.ca/2012/08/new-platform-tests-os-x-mountain-lion.html
• Using pymake for win32 builds on all branches (except aurora, beta, release). Improved nightly/PGO compile times by about 45 minutes. ()
• Improved wait times for linux/windows builds
  • Due to migration of linux based builds to AWS, and recycling of old linux build machines into win64 build machines
  • More win64 machines coming online soon
  • Reimaging 40 OSX 10.5 test machines as additional windows test machines
• Infrastructure load for august
  • Another record high number of checkins - 5,803 checkins in August, up from 5,635 in July.

Security

Stability Report

Socorro

Desktop

Beta

• bug 787637 crash in js::NukeCrossCompartmentWrapper
• bug 763896 [adbe 3216155] Flash hang in F_1152915508
  • This crash ranks #2 in beta and is fairly high in volume relative to other flash crashes

Release

• Crash rate looks good with almost 49 million ADUs

Aurora

• bug 785634 crash in JSContext::saveFrameChain mainly with Roboform is fixed but is causing the crash rate on Aurora to be a bit higher
• bug 788107 crash in nsPluginStreamListenerPeer::OnStartRequest
• bug 788162 Firefox crash in jvm.dll

Trunk

• New crashes
  • bug 787775 reproducible crash in crash in js::ArrayBufferObject::removeFinalizedView
  • bug 785366 Intermittent crash in browser_styleeditor_new.js [@ IncrementalCollectSlice]

Mobile

• 45% of all our crashes on Fx15 mobile are startup related.

See Mobile Notes for Mobile specific Socorro notes

• Top Crash List Bugs

• 15 Release top crashes

• 16.0b1 Beta top crashes

• Aurora top crashes

• Nightly top crashes

Roundtable

• (catlee) - supported architectures for win8?
• Reminder: nsCAutoString -> nsAutoCString landed this weekend; script to revise patch queues is in bug 773151