Platform/2012-11-06

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2012-11-06 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 95312
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 95312
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 95312
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• Warp Core Vidyo Room / SFO-Boardroom
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Products/Projects

Firefox Mobile

\o/Check out Finkle's Blog

Remote Web Console for Android is here!

• http://starkravingfinkle.org/blog/2012/10/firefox-for-android-remote-web-console-is-here/

Responsiveness

• bug 785945 - Awesomescreen entries are very slow to appear
• Quickly closing tabs with swipe gesture is better: bug 770492 - Quick sliding to close tabs will not dismiss them anymore at some point

Usability

• Fix for honeycomb issue landed in Fx18 and Fx19: bug 787318 - Tabs thumbnails are not updated
• Video playback experience is improved thanks to: Template:Bug 739542- Disable screen timeout when playing HTML5 <video> (webm, H.264)
• Ditto for full screen playback: bug 805017 - Disable screen timeout when DOMFullscreen is enabled

IME Awesome Continues

• bug 805162 - Rework IME code to properly handle events and notifications across threads
• bug 806349 - Input auto-correction is not enabled

Safebrowsing

• Freshly landed on Inboud (not for Fx17): bug 806422 - Do not cache Complete's across a SafeBrowsing update

Stability Wins

• bug 797705 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoEvent.createNativeGestureEvent(GeckoEvent.java
• bug 804926 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApp.requestRender(GeckoApp.java)
• bug 781259 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.DoorHangerPopup$3.run(DoorHangerPopup.java)
• bug 799877 - java.lang.IllegalStateException: at android.widget.ListView.layoutChildren(ListView.java) with Adapter(class org.mozilla.gecko.AllPagesTab$AwesomeBarCursorAdapter)

Stability Report [Weekly]

Desktop

• Flash
  • New version of Flash shipped today: Adobe Flash Player version 11.5.502.110
• Trunk
  • bug 808531 crash in mozilla::MediaPipelineTransmit::PipelineListener::NotifyQueuedTrackChanges
  • 6 of the top 10 are image or gfx crashes, we need people to look into those: https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/Firefox/19.0a1/7
• Beta
  • bug 808561 crash in nsDisplayListBuilder::DisplayCaret
• Aurora
  • bug 806820 crash in SuppressDeletedPropertyHelper
• Release
  • bug 807684 crash in libnortonconfidential16.dylib@0x22f6d @ libsystem_c.dylib with Norton Confidential
  • bug 807923 crash in browsemngr.dll@0x11a176 with Browser Manager 2.3.796.11 bundled with Babylon

Snappy [Weekly]

• Snappy #43: Big improvements: faster startup? Smoother tabstrip!
• Nov 1 Snappy minutes

• Start-up
  • Firefox median startup performance (as measured by SIMPLE_MEASURES_FIRST_PAINT) improved between 20%-25% at the end of Firefox 18 cycle (~Oct 26).
  • Dão Gottwald postponed loading content until Firefox chrome is painted (bug 756313). This will result in browser chrome painting sooner.

• Tab Strip
  • Bas Schouten landed Azure (Windows 8) caching for gradients, which is useful when rendering border corners. (bug 805831 This should speed up tab-strip drawing when 2d-acceleration is used.
  • Neil Deakin made two changes to avoid unnecessary layout flushes
    • changed popup.xml's state getter to not flush frames when retrieving state (bug 792296)
    • prevented scrollbox.ensureElementIsVisible() from being called if the tab strip doesn't overflow (bug 752376.

• Content
  • Matt Woodrow significantly improved the performance of the periodic table demo (bug 806256). However, performance is still poor with Direct2D (bug 808838).

• Tools
  • Benoit Girard updated the profiler to support linking to a specific view. Just grab the URL to share your current view. Read about more updates on Benoit's blog

Engineering Metrics

0.0	0.0 days	0.0 days	?? bugs	?? bugs
Patch Review Time	SG:Crit Resolution Time	Top Crash Resolution Time	Unresolved Aurora Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta Trackers (non-security)

Roundtable

• gps is soliciting input for a brown bag on the build system. https://etherpad.mozilla.org/build-system-brownbag