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==Firefox Development== | ==Firefox Development== | ||
* The work by a group of MSU students to get Firefox preferences "in-content" has mostly landed on trunk. Check out [http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/in-content-preferences-are-now-available-in-firefox-nightly/ Jared's blog post] for more info. There's some followup polish/theming work still remaining before we make the switch and remove the old preferences dialog. | * The work by a group of MSU students to get Firefox preferences "in-content" has mostly landed on trunk. Check out [http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/05/10/in-content-preferences-are-now-available-in-firefox-nightly/ Jared's blog post] for more info. There's some followup polish/theming work still remaining before we make the switch and remove the old preferences dialog. | ||
* [http://blog.johnath.com/2012/05/08/awesome-a-compendium/ FX-Team work week wrap up] - read it, there's good stuff in there! | |||
==Firefox Developer Tools== | ==Firefox Developer Tools== | ||
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==GFX== | ==GFX== | ||
* Azure-Thebes will (hopefully) be turned on by default this week. | |||
** This applies only to hardware accelerated computers on Windows Vista and 7. | |||
** The net of this is that we're going to be drawing fundamentally differently, and we can expect regressions in performance and drawing. | |||
** It has a very simple pref for backing out, luckily. | |||
==JS== | ==JS== | ||
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==WebAPI== | ==WebAPI== | ||
* Lots of work happening on security model, but still a lot of work remaining. | |||
* We will probably adjust the open-web-apps API to allow multiple apps per origin since the security model will support that. Might not implement the actual support in the initial release though. | |||
* The Open Web Apps API has been submitted to W3C and we've started receiving input. | |||
* Initial APIs for "system intents", camera control and Alarm API being discussed on webapi mailing list. | |||
* Started implementing backend for doing apps-specific permissions. | |||
==Network== | ==Network== | ||
==Identity== | ==Identity== | ||
Firefox front-end team met with Ben Adida & Co. last week for an Identity swarm, made good progress on understanding how things work, and getting some initial code up and going to start flushing out issues (for both sign-into-browser and native sign-into-websites) | |||
==Plugins== | ==Plugins== | ||
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==Mobile== | ==Mobile== | ||
* In light of the beta, please remember that one can have only [https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Anaaktgeboren/NativeSync#Android_Sync_behavior_with_multiple_Firefox_versions_installed one native Sync client per device]. Please ping :ally if you have questions. | * In light of the beta, please remember that one can have only [https://wiki.mozilla.org/User:Anaaktgeboren/NativeSync#Android_Sync_behavior_with_multiple_Firefox_versions_installed one native Sync client per device]. Please ping :ally if you have questions. | ||
* [https://quality.mozilla.org/2012/05/firefox-mobile-testday-friday-may-18th/ Testday on Friday] please help promote it | |||
==Accessibility== | ==Accessibility== | ||
* No audible this week. | |||
==Tree Management== | ==Tree Management== | ||
* Switching windows 32-bit PGO builds to run on 64-bit machines this week {{bug|753132}} | * Switching windows 32-bit PGO builds to run on 64-bit machines this week {{bug|753132}} | ||
* Hoping to have signed OSX builds (for 10.8) on mozilla-central late this week or early next week | * Hoping to have signed OSX builds (for 10.8) on mozilla-central late this week or early next week {{bug|752613}} | ||
==Security== | ==Security== | ||
* module owners please check your module for unassigned security bugs | |||
For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar | |||
* HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html | |||
* .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review | |||
==== Bugs marked sec-review-needed that need to be scheduled ==== | |||
<bugzilla> | |||
{ | |||
"product": "mozilla.org", | |||
"component": "Security Assurance: Review Request", | |||
"quicksearch": "status:new,assigned,reopened,unconfirmed", | |||
"whiteboard": "[pending secreview][needs info]", | |||
"whiteboard_type": "contains" | |||
} | |||
</bugzilla> | |||
==Stability Report== | ==Stability Report== | ||
* Stability work week - June 11th 2012. | |||
* KaiRo has written a blog post on [http://home.kairo.at/blog/2012-05/the_life_cycle_of_a_crash The Life Cycle of a Crash]. | * KaiRo has written a blog post on [http://home.kairo.at/blog/2012-05/the_life_cycle_of_a_crash The Life Cycle of a Crash]. | ||