Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2015-04-14

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Channel Meeting Details

• Tuesdays and Thursdays at 10am Pacific Time
• irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel

Video/Teleconference Details - NEW

• 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99951 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99951 (US)
• Vidyo Room: Release Coordination
• Vidyo Guest URL

REMEMBER

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Attendees

lmandel, sylvestre, lizzard, kairo, catlee, jorge, roland, hwine, jstrickland

Schedule Update

• 37.0.2 mobile
  • fixes bug 1151469 - Incorrect navigator.userAgent requested via Request Desktop Site on Firefox 37
  • shipped today!

• 37.0.2 desktop
  • Drivers:
    • Bug 1153381 WebGL Google Maps rendering bugs with D3D11 ANGLE on GMA4500 (owner: jrmuizel)

**** Google Maps rendering issue fixed by blocklisting affected graphics cards

• • • Bug 1151361 37.0.1 crashes on startup during gfxWindowsPlatform::InitD3D11Devices() when creating WARP device (owner: bas)
      • start-up crash, update on fix expected afternoon ET
    • Bug 1153496 Upside down Google Maps in FF37 (owner: jrmuizel)
      • regression reported by Google, update on fix expected afternoon ET
  • Ride Alongs:
    • Bug 1151721 Blacklist older intel drivers for DXVA (owner: mattwoodrow)
      • media related graphics blocklist that should negate the need to ship the add-on hotfix in bug 1152630
    • Bug 1137716 Startup crash on Optimus w/ Intel Ironlake Graphics mozilla::layers::CompositorD3D11::GetTextureFactoryIdentifier() (owner: jrmuizel)
      • additional blocklist entries to fix a start-up and top crash
    • Bug 1141081 crash in AsyncPaintWaitEvent::AsyncPaintWaitEvent(nsIContent*, bool), often with 0x5a5a5a5e address (owner: aklotz)
      • fix for top crash introduced in 37.0.1

• 38.0 b4 - gtb yesterday for both Desktop & Mobile
  • Sign off of Mobile received
  • Sign off of Desktop received

• Heads up: long TCW Sat April 18 - 0600-1800 PT https://bugzil.la/1151645

Add-ons

• No updates.

Stability

Aurora / Dev Edition

• Overall rate: 3.4 (should be <1.5) - plugin crashes/hangs: .4/.9, usually ~.07/.14
• Still mostly plugin issues, aklotz is looking into them and already landed some fixes that helped get rates down.

Beta

• Overall rate: 1.7 (target: <1.4)
• bug 1144649 (large OOMs in CC) is >10% in b3, should be fixed in b4.
• bug 1116812 (probably-TDRs) is 3.6%
• bug 1138520 (shutdowncrash in dom::ContentParent::Observe) is 2.9%
• bug 1141089 (ContainerState::InvalidateForLayerChange) is 1.6% - patch is on m-c
• bug 1153558 (msvcr120.dll@0xf20c) signature is 1.4%
• bug 1124880 should have been solved in b3 but still is 1.3%
• bug 1143806 (layers::SyncObjectD3D11::FinalizeFrame) is 1.1%
• bug 1133623 (CompositorD3D11::BeginFrame) is .8%

Release

• Overall rate: 1.3 (36 was 1.2, 35 was .8-.85)
• bug 1141089 (ContainerState::InvalidateForLayerChange) is 2.1% but patch doesn't have much testing yet, only landed on m-c today.
• 37.0.2 candidates:
  • bug 1141081 (two signatures, sec-high) is 3.2%
  • bug 1151361 (startup, D3D init) is 0.28%
  • bug 1137716 (startup, D3D) is 0.32%

Performance (Thu)

QE

Beta

• [Otilia] Fennec 38 beta 4 sign-off will be delayed to Thursday as Fennec 37.0.2 was tested today and it was first priority
  • For mobile beta 4 we are usually running a larger set of tests, and these take about 2 days
  • [IN PROGRESS] Testing build - build can be signed off
• desktop push-to-beta email just sent

Roundtable

• (lmandel) Proposal to recover from start-up crashes
  • Bug 1152027 Don't lose users to persistent startup crashes after browser update
• (catlee) ideas for catching gfx issues earlier?
  • betabreakers - qa testing on windows
  • "database" of our users gfx cards, drivers and os
  • improve the feedback on gfx from the crash stats
  • can we in some form invite people on problematic systems to use beta?
• (lmandel) r-d seems to still be marking some e-mails as spam. Please let me know if any of your e-mails don't make it to the list.

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