Mobile/Notes/17-Oct-2012

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Schedule

• Next merge is 2012-11-19

Major Topics for This Week

Stability

Still doing OK. We have Nightly and Aurora under 10 per 100ADI. Beta and Release are under 5 per 100ADI. There are some actionable top crashers though and we'll still keep hammering at those.

Firefox Marketplace

The Marketplace will go into a "developer preview" release this week. The required sign-in will be dropped and people will be able to install webapps from the Marketplace. Firefox for Android (Nightly and Aurora) is the focused clients.

Memory/Space Management

Just wanted to point out that we are started to land more changes that improve Firefox memory and footprint behavior. Things like: Thumbnail and history expiration, Zombifying tabs on memory pressure, and refactoring the favicon storage.

Responsiveness

Some additional improvements focused on UI responsiveness are also landing or will land soon. Things like: Tab tray animation, Tab stubbing in Java, Top Sites query, and Awesomescreen/AboutHome loading.

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!

Kats

• Oct 10 - Oct 17:
  • bug 799686 - make the about:memory file dump readable on android
  • bug 799476 - update MemoryObserver to reuse existing code (since regressed by bug 800486)
  • bug 792143 - turn unused tabs into zombies (pending review)
  • filed crash bugs 800935, 800944, and 801015 that i hit while trying to test bug 792143. argh!
  • bug 789923 - drop thumbnail data if disk space is running low
  • bug 799094 - make selection handles move properly when scrolling iframes (pending review)
  • bug 802495 - eliminate redundant LayerRenderer object created on startup
  • bug 802491 - fix leak of scrollbar layers' direct-allocation buffers
  • bug 802640 - some minor refactoring patches (pending review)
  • looked briefly at bug 790102 - a talos failure that's spiked in frequency recently

• Next:
  • work on another readability prototype
  • bug 801818 - add a runtime API to find if we are on a low memory device
  • investigate startup memory usage on a faux-256m device since we can't find any real ones
  • interviews

GBrown

• Last week:
  • PTO
• Next:
  • another look at bug 797942 LayerManagerOGL not correctly updated on SIZE_CHANGED

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

• Done
  • bug 749063 - Improve progressive tile drawing order/priority
  • bug 801566 - Fix building with --disable-debug and --enable-dump-painting
  • Blogged about progressive tile drawing work: http://chrislord.net/blog/Software/Mozilla/progressive-tile-rendering.enlighten

• Now/next
  • bug 802143 - ReusableTileStoreOGL miscalculates the content bounds
  • bug 800475 - Fade in new content tiles
  • bug 795259 - Enable progressive tile drawing by default on Android

• Low priority/blocked
  • Blog about invalidation work
  • Invalidation bugs (finishing progressive tiles work first)
  • bug 785069 - tcheckerboard2 has regressed substantially since Jul 22nd
  • bug 792415 - Covered areas of fixed position elements are not rendered
  • bug 783914 - WEBGL_depth_texture doesn't work using ANGLE (low priority)
  • bug 786412 - Consolidate ContainerLayer functions (waiting on nrc's shadow layers work)

Chris Peterson

• Done
  • bug 798517 - Typing in browser logs error messages about 'JavaScript component does not have a method named: "handleEvent"'
  • bug 798980 - [b2g] Crash when opening an inline Activity
  • bug 797225 - Add Stagefright software decoder fallback for hardware decoders that report unknown video color formats

• Next
  • More B2G/Gaia bugs:
  • bug 785663 - When IME appears, focused input element should not be hidden by keyboard}}
  • bug 766066 - mozKeyboard.onfocuschange shouldn't be raised when you are scrolling

Brian N

• Done
  • Bug 800044 - Hide private browsing menu item
  • (in review) Bug 762155 - bookmark keywords do not work (search bookmark keywords do)
  • (in review) Bug 774304 - java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.MultiChoicePreference.onDialogClosed(MultiChoicePreference.java)
  • Bug 800238 - NPE when showing solicitation at startup
  • Bug 798280 - Save As PDF busted - (NS_ERROR_XPC_NOT_ENOUGH_ARGS @ nsIDownloadManager.addDownload)
  • Bug 800332 - Regression: Unable to open remote tabs
  • Bug 801675 - Unable to launch the Marketplace in the AboutHomePromoBox
  • Bug 800199 - Stub initial tab before Gecko starts
  • (in review) Bug 722661 - Stub restored tabs before Gecko starts
• Next
  • Bug 784086 - Change DB schema to more closely resemble places
  • Private browsing bugs

Sriram

• Progress:
  • Personas is getting better: http://cl.ly/image/1E1K0p131n1a
    • Figuring out way to inject the image into the buttons.
  • Addons can add submenu of their own: http://cl.ly/image/253l1i3Y0C2u
    • Waiting for review.
  • 3-Button action-bar in custom menu: http://cl.ly/image/3V2r3J0k0m3Z
  • Awesome new Widget: http://cl.ly/image/0c1s083F0D2x
  • Prototyped the "slide to hide" URL bar behavior.
    • More polishing needed.
• Blog posts:
  • ListView overscroll behavior: http://wp.me/pGWkB-2U and http://wp.me/pGWkB-2Z
  • Instagram like ListViews: http://wp.me/pGWkB-33

WesJ

Last week:

• Bug 695407 - Modifier keys (e.g. shiftKey) always false for touch events (e.g. touchstart)
• Bug 787765 - Retheme about:home thumbnails
• Bug 744961 - Add some form of history expiration
• Security bugs

This week:

• Finish up tests for expiration
• Follow ups to thumbnail change
• Packaged apps

LucasR

Last week

• Landed new tabs tray animation and underlying framework (bug 767980)
• Landed new tab swipe gesture implementation (bug 772940, bug 778625, bug 766710, bug 787335, bug 797987)
• bug 792429 - Open tab menu wider
• bug 796886 - Tabs Menu is not closed when toolbar buttons are tapped
• bug 798942 - Items opened in a new tab from the reading list folder are not opened in reader mode
• bug 793771 - Use drawing cache on the tabs pane sliding on pre-ICS phone
• bug 801477 - Regression: Black flash on startup
• Co-leading the Firefox Desktop/Mobile track for MozCamp Asia
• Co-mentoring Reader Mode implementation in desktop Firefox
  • Latest update: http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/status-update-5-of-reader-mode-for-desktop-firefox/
• Blog post: http://lucasr.org/?p=3094

Next week

• bug 800883 - Quick tap on tab row might leave it in pressed state
• bug 785945 - Awesomescreen entries are very slow to appear

Margaret

• Currently working on crash reporting UI for b2g - tracking bug is bug 761905
• PTO Friday (and maybe Monday)

MFinkle

Done:

• Some Firefox/Marketplace work (bug 797048 and bug 787188)
• Metro planning

Next:

• Might be back out in MV Nov 5th