Mobile/Notes/12-Sep-2012

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2012-10-08
• Fx15.0.1 shipped
• Fx16b2 shipped

Major Topics for This Week

ARMv6

Collecting data. Looking for feedback on Play Store and Input.

Usage Milestone

We broke 1 million ADIs yesterday (combining Fx14, Fx15 and Fx16).

Focus on Nightly

Most work is happening on features slated for Fx18 or greater. We seem to be moving away from our "uplift the world" curse.

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 2 minutes!

James W. (snorp)

• This week
  • Bug 789791 - Firefox for Android Nightly 20120905 fails to update ("No updates found") if system language is not en-US
  • Bug 789964 - Root usage in updater scares users, doesn't work
  • Bug 786248 - Video is rendered upside-down at dailymotion.com on Honeycomb
  • Bug 750217 - Android crash in nsNPAPIPluginInstance::TimerWithID
  • Bug 778091 - Low resolution version of flash displayed on all 4.x tablets (in progress)

• Next week
  • Probably start on reducing memory usage for our ARMv6 friends

Kats

Sep 5 - Sep 11:

• filed a couple of valgrind bugs which are blocking my heap graph tool
• bug 760229 - reduce transient object creation on java heap during composition
• interviews
• bug 780975 - some cleanup in browser.js
• bug 767449 - don't hard-code sdcard path in robocop/talos
• bug 770912 - take out log lines that leak user information
• did an overhaul of the build instructions posted at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android
• bug 789889 - (WIP, some numbers) speculatively connect to links on touchstart
• bug 789923 - drop thumbnails that we're unlikely to need (r-'d, need to do this differently)
• bug 761706 - (WIP) make our broadcast receiver classes not tied to GeckoApp
• code reviews

Next:

• more work on bug 761706
• start working through the ideas list we brainstormed at boston workweek
  • see if we are/can generate thumb2 code and if it's better
  • see if using basic layers instead of GL layers works and helps
  • shrink the displayport size
  • ... more

GBrown

Last week:

• bug 777440 Estimate releng work for supporting 2 pass linking
  • Demonstrated method for doing this in the emulator; now over to :hwine
  • Blogged about emulator tricks
• bug 783639 PixelTest failures on panda
• bug 787115 Hang and high CPU during robocop tests on panda: java.lang.StringToReal.parseDouble
  • Wrapped up investigation; work-around on the way in bug 727352

Next:

• Robocop pixel test failures (eg bug 784242, 767215)

Chris Peterson

• Done
  • bug 786103 - Stagefright: Galaxy S III hardware decoder video is green (OMX_COLOR_FormatYUV420SemiPlanar)
  • bug 786117 - Stagefright software decoder crashes playing Bloomberg video
  • bug 785536 - Add MPAPI GetPref so platform decoders can query about:config prefs
  • bug 782096 - NullPointerException at android.os.Parcel.readException(Parcel.java)
  • bug 788600 - AutoComplete causing multiple entries of the same word
  • bug 780543 - Holding backspace causes enormous repeats of content
  • bug 768105 - Hacker's Keyboard inserts typed characters at wrong position after autocompleting a word
  • bug 777591 - Compile new namespaces packages into separate .jar packages (and link .dex from .jar files, not .class files)
• Next
  • bug 784329 - Stagefright: Galaxy Nexus hardware decoder video is blank. Need OMX_TI_COLOR_FormatYUV420PackedSemiPlanar color conversion
  • bug 785275 - Galaxy S III hardware decoder shows green bars when playing non-720p videos (OMX_COLOR_FormatYUV420SemiPlanar)
  • IME bugs

LucasR

Last week

• bug 788119 - Don't even parse home pages in Reader's worker thread
• bug 785992 - Sanitize parsed reader mode article when viewing
• bug 786073 - Don't animate lock icon when switching or restoring tabs
• bug 768268 - Never show duplicate URLs in awesomebar results
• bug 778489 - Implement nice transition to enter Reader Mode
• bug 787877 - History list doesn't update after you remove the last history item using context menu
• bug 788157 - Enable sharing while on Reader Mode

Next week

• bug 786638 - Implement testing infrastructure for reader mode
• bug 767980 - Tab drawer animation should be smoother
• bug 788488 - Do not enter loading mode for pages already in session history

Margaret

Done:

• MozCamp EU (blog post about mobile add-ons session)
• Community building meetup (blog post to come)
• PopupWindow crash fix - bug 774209
• Helping smaug collect cycle collector logs on mobile
• Investigating top sites query perf
  • Slow query - bug 785945
  • Issuing multiple queries when we shouldn't - bug 789887, bug 789947

Next:

• More top sites perf investigation
• More travel/PTO, back to normal next Thursday

Scott (jwir3)

(I won't be in the meeting this week, but please read the wiki for my updates. Feel free to email me with any questions.)

Last Week:

• • bug 780258 Landed. We now have the ability to specify a max line box width for all line boxes on a page.
  • Fixed a number of quirks with the reflow-on-zoom prototype. Working on developing a decent demo video for all to see.
  • Worked on bug 784375: Add ability to specify a maximum font inflation ratio.

This Week:

• • Fix review comments from bug 784375 and land it.
  • Develop reflow-on-zoom prototype demo video (and probably blog about it).
  • Isolate behavior for -webkit-text-size-adjust: percentage% so that we can add this to the newly developing spec by dbaron and tantek.

Round Table

SUMO

Firefox 15.0.1 Mobile Google Play Feedback

5 star 49,963 (+1877, 64% of Growth)

4 star 18,844 (+567, 19% of Growth)

3 star 12,762 (+240, 8% of Growth)

2 star 8,513 (+99, 3% of Growth )

1 star 13,259 (+171, 6% of Growth)

Average rating: 3.81 (+.02)

Average Rating of this Week's Reviews: 4.30 (-.13)

103,341 Total Reviews (+2964)

Observations: 15.0.1 did fix the keyboard input issue. crashes remain our biggest concern, but they are still not significantly higher than 14.0.1.

Firefox Beta Google Play Feedback

5 star 8,592 (+507, 69% of Growth)

4 star 3,599 (+123, 17% of Growth)

3 star 1,797 (+30, 4% of Growth)

2 star 939 (+22, 3% of Growth)

1 star 1,625 (+54, 7% of Growth)

Average rating: 4.00 (+.01 from last week)

This Week's worth of Reviews Average Rating: 4.41 (+.17)

16,552 Total Reviews (+736)

Observations: Feedback solicitation landed this week, which is most likely accounting for the huge spike in positive reviews (we went from 51% of reviews being 5 star to 69%). Next week Input is going to feature in this report.