Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2008-01-08

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Firefox 3/Gecko 1.9 Meeting Details

• Tuesdays - Firefox 3 - 11:00am Pacific, 2:00pm Eastern, 19:00 UTC
• Mozilla Building S - Central Area
• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x91 Conf# 217 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 217 (US)
• irc.mozilla.org #granparadiso for backchannel

Status of Key Areas to wrap up for final ship

• Visual
  • Icon Refresh
    • main window and preferences will be ready for beta 3
    • addons manager, download manager, page info & others likely not ready for beta 3
  • General Theme Polish
    • w32: main toolbar CSS changes will be ready for beta 3
    • all: awesomebar changes and star-dialog changes for beta 3
  • Mac Theme
    • proto will land in beta 3

• Memory Usage
  • JEMalloc Work
  • Leak hunting
  • General Footprint improvements
• Performance
  • Ts/TXul
  • Tp
  • Graphics
  • Javascript
  • DOM bug 407216 - fast path top N DOM methods
• Awesome Bar
  • Global Frecency (bug 394038) - patch in review stage, on track
  • Edward Lee has a few other enhancements which are in progress, but need evaluation and perf testing: instrumentation (bug 395735), adaptive learning (bug 395739), improved matching/ranking (bug 410133, bug 410136)
• Places
  • Full tag backup and restore (bug 384370) - on track for b3, need to perf test now that native JSON has landed.
  • Have a voluminous number of minor issues, but nothing release-blocking at this point. Lots of folks jumping on triage etc for these, which is a great help.
• Offline
• Malware
• AMO Integration bug 404024
  • Mostly ready, currently blocking on AMO work and waiting for UX updates
  • Auto-enable themes posted for review bug 408118
  • Startup notification of new installs posted for review bug 408115
  • Dynamic restart button is ready for review bug 408116
• XOW
• xsite XMLHttpRequest
• General Website Compatibility
• SW Update
• SVG
  • Filters - are we good here?
• Printing
• MathML
  • Significant outstanding issues are dependencies of bug 324857
  • Would be nice to have enough issues fixed for beta 3 so that users can test
    • not sure if all major issues will be resolved by then
    • would need a cairo upgrade or cherry pick for Windows users
    • not clear the best way to fix bug 363240 - preferred width for mtable
      • seems that needs to go back to reflowing with unconstrained width
• Vista Breakpad
  • IT has cert on order - bug 398807
• Crash Reporting server (Socorro)
  • aggregate comment display - per choffman
  • raw stack dumps - per dbaron
• EV-SSL
  • working to get Draft 11 audited VeriSign EV root in for Beta 3
  • need to determine which root certs have been EVSSL 1.0 audited for final
• NSS updates?
• Web-based protocol handling
• Help (SUMO etc)
• Save Link As... filename fixes bug 299372

Firefox 3

• Places
  • Blocker list (5 P1, 21 P2)

Security Reviews

• Design Review Proposal
• Still needed
  • Microformats (mkaply)
  • Malware Protection (dcamp)
  • Distribution/Customization (thunder)

• Completed
  • Password Manager (done)
  • Offline Apps (done)
  • Web Content Handlers (done)
  • Add-Ons (rob_strong) (done)
  • Places (dietrich/sspitzer) (done)
  • Cross-domain XMLHttpRequest - Done.
  • ContentEditable (peterv) - Done.

QA Status/Topics

* Q: When will proto OSX theme be included into nightly builds?

* Q: What is the status of offline browsing feature?

• B3 testplan is in the works. Regression Testing coverage will include:
  • focused testing
  • Smoketests, BFTs
  • bug verifications
  • l10n builds (if string frozen)
  • Top websites
  • Supported plugins
  • Major update run (incl partners if permitting)
  • Leaks

Localization Topics

Ahead of schedule for roughly 50% of our locales via B1 and B2.

The other 50% are more or less on fx2 tree status, including new localizations.

L10n dashboard in discussion phase, see mockup.