Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2008-01-29

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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

Open Action Items

• AI:peterv Help drive leak fixing
• AI:Tomcat wikify/blog your steps to find extension leaks
• AI:pav Drive list of footprint bugs for next perf meeting
• AI:sicking Move content arenas patch to completion
• AI:mconnor Figure out where list of 'done' new features can get help created

Status of Key Areas to wrap up for final ship

• Visual
  • Icon Refresh
  • General Theme Polish
    • w32: main toolbar CSS changes will be ready for beta 3
      • Unified Back-/Forward button has been backed out due to Txul/Ts issues... help wanted (bug 386228)
    • all: awesomebar changes and star-dialog changes for beta 3
  • Mac Theme
    • Proto Landed! W00t!
• Memory Usage
  • JEMalloc Work
  • Leak hunting
    • Concerns over extension leaks. AIs above
  • Tp
    • Need to investigate CJKT issues on windows
  • Graphics
    • Borders and backgrounds need some work. Vlad on it
  • Javascript
  • FileURL Bug
  • XOW still needs some work
• Awesome Bar
  • Global Frecency (bug 394038) - Landed
  • Lots of followup perf fixes in the last day (thanks mardak!), need feedback
• Places
  • bug 384370 - backup/restore of full bookmark set
  • bug 385245 - history sidebar perf
• Offline
  • pretty much set
  • one or two small UI bugs to fix
• Malware
  • landed, caused some orange, checking in a fix today
• AMO Integration bug 404024
  • Landed yesterday, in todays nightlies
  • Getting a bunch of minor UI tweaks
• xsite XMLHttpRequest
• SVG
• Printing
  • Fixed bug 410071 (boarding pass / swedbank print issues)
  • Fixed bug 413024 (colored text printed as white on Windows)
  • Fixed bug 403669 (print/print preview prints first page, then gives up)
  • Fixed bug 389358 (print headers do not display in print preview)
  • Easy fix posted for bug 389359 (jumping to wrong pages in print-preview); hope to get r/sr & land today
  • bug 375749 (printed page contents shifted down on mac) -- needs more work
• MathML
  • bug 363240 tables with mathml are incorrectly sized/positioned.
    • affects matrices and conditionals
    • no way yet to get child frame heights without doing an extra Reflow() -- won't be able to do this for Beta 3
  • Linux glyph selection issues resolved.
  • Some occasional glyph selection problems on Windows bug 382542.
• EV-SSL
  • Larry UI tweaks and proto integration bug 406612 landed today.
• Web-based protocol handling
• Microformats
  • Two more patches to checkin - bug 402250 and bug 412660
• Help (SUMO etc)
• Save Link As... filename fixes bug 299372
• Plug-ins - concern over flash plug-in causing repaint
• Window.postMessage
  • Patch has undergone one r- from sicking and grown 20K more tests, awaits r+ from sicking (followed by sr/a)

Firefox 3

• Places
  • Blocker list (4 P1, 21 P2)

Security Reviews

• Design Review Proposal
• Still needed
  • Microformats (mkaply) 1/29 after this meeting (User:Mkaply:Fx-Docs:Microformats}
  • Distribution/Customization (thunder) 1/29 after this meeting (User:Thunder/Distribution Customizations Feature Proposal)
  • XMLHttpRequest follow up moved to 2/4 after this meeting
  • Window.postMessage (TBD)
  • about:crashes (reed) (TBD)

• 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.
  • Malware Protection (dcamp) Done.
    • http://wiki.mozilla.org/User:DCamp/Malware_Security_Review

QA Status/Topics

• Beta 3 Testplan ready, with assignments

• QA b3 Schedule
  • Smoketests (2/4-2/5)
  • BFTs (2/4-2/6)
  • M11 and past focused Tests (2/4-2/13)
  • Supported Plugins (2/7-2/8)
  • Top Websites (2/7-2/8)
  • Major Updates (Fx2 -> Fx3 trial run) (Completed)
  • Update snippets from Alpha X, Beta 1,2 -> Beta 3 (2/11 - 2/12)
  • Memory Leak Testing (handled by Tomcat on debug builds)
  • P1 L10N spotchecks (2/11)
  • M11 bug verifications (ongoing)
  • Beta 3 Testday (2/8)
  • Release notes, Websites (2/13)

• Areas of B3 Concerns:
  • Unknown when Places UI is landing (Changes to places organizer, bookmarks dialog)
  • Accessibility areas for those features.
  • Offline browsing has no testcases by developer. Need more information on how to test this.
  • Proto and w32 icons/theme just landed this week. (Estimate 3-5 days to test)
  • Addons Manager just landed today. (Estimate 8-10 days to test)
    • Recommended Addons doesnt look like its working yet. AMO team?
  • Location bar Frecency. just landed this week, (Estimate 8-12 days to test)
  • bug 402611 - Safe browsing and bug 413919 - phishing Protection UI work, landed this week. (Estimate 5 days to test)

• Fx2.0.0.11-> Fx3 Major Update testing. Issues found:
  • bug 414629 - rss feed does not work after MU
  • bug 412348 – MU: Titles are missing in history dropdown for urls w/out www. Filed and nominated for blocking.
  • bug 412372 – Software Update dialog window needs text update for Fx2->Fx3

General Discussion

• Major Update testing and Partner Build Major Update testing - is this a FF3.0beta3 blocker?
• any build requirements for FF3.0beta3?
• extension compatibility
  • at ~41% compatibility by usage
  • need lots of help on review queue
    • 104 reviews pending
    • 37 addons pending update
    • 52 addons nominated for public
  • need to know about any changes that could break extension compatibility: CC polvi on bugs