Firefox3/StatusMeetings/2008-02-19

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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

Action Items

Open

• AI:peterv Help drive leak fixing

Closed

• AI:Tomcat wikify/blog your steps to find extension leaks
• AI:sicking Move content arenas patch to completion
• AI:mconnor Figure out where list of 'done' new features can get help created (basically done, SUMO team is catching up to the last set of feature changes, will be ready for review soon(TM))

Firefox 3: issues for beta 4 / final ship

• Theme Refresh / Visual Polish
• Awesome Bar
• Save Link As... filename fixes bug 299372
• Places
  • bug 405198 - Cannot drag-and-drop items across different views/menus. This is blocking on resolution of platform bug 389931

Platform: issues for beta 4 / final ship

• Memory Usage
• xsite XMLHttpRequest
• SVG
• Printing
• MathML
  • bug 363240 tables with mathml are incorrectly sized/positioned.
    • have a patch with an accurate but unloved fix.
    • may be able to have part of an approximate but more lovable fix in a week.
  • Some occasional glyph selection problems
    • Mac issues bug 416062 resolved - thanks, nattokirai.
    • Have asked STIX to consider changes that would help Windows issues bug 382542.
• Web-based protocol handling
• Microformats
• Help (SUMO etc)
• Plug-ins - concern over flash plug-in causing repaint
• mostly regression fixing and polishing, no new features
• some big ticket items:

• Performance Metrics That Need Work
  • Memory
    • Windows XP Private Bytes
    • Ubuntu Linux Private Bytes
    • Mac OS 10.4 Private Bytes
    • Windows XP Working Set
    • Ubuntu Linux RSS
    • Mac OS 10.4 RSS
  • Startup
    • Windows XP TS
    • Ubuntu Linux TS
    • Vista TS
    • Mac OS 10.4 TS
  • XUL
    • Windows XP Twinopen

Security Reviews

• Design Review Proposal
• Still needed
  • XMLHttpRequest User:Sicking/Cross_Site_XHR_Review
  • Window.postMessage (sicking and waldo) 2/12 after this meeting

• Completed
  • Microformats (mkaply)(User:Mkaply:Fx-Docs:Microformats}
  • Distribution/Customization (thunder)(User:Thunder/Distribution Customizations Feature Proposal)
  • 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
  • about:crashes (Mossop) (Done)

General Discussion

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