Platform/2010-08-17

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 4 Beta 4

• mostly code frozen
  • two late regressions will be fixed on relbranch
  • should have builds late today, PT
• puts release target as next Monday, Aug 23

Firefox 3.6.9 & 3.5.12

• We are frozen!
• Thanks everyone for the good convergence
• Will be clearing/pushing forward approvals to the next version in the coming week
• Verifications/testing now until the 23rd, then a build

Firefox 3.6.10 & 3.5.13

• Start nominating!
• Not approving bugs yet as we don't have a branch ready for landings

Blocker Report

Firefox 4 Beta

• a handy list of triage queries is available for all!
  • Beta 5: 94 blockers
  • Beta N: 237 blockers
  • Final: 234 blockers (571 total)
  • nominations: 290 nominations

Firefox 3.6.9 & 3.5.12

• We are frozen!
• Thanks everyone for the good convergence

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

• [ON TRACK] Feature complete Firefox 4
  • [DONE] Switch to Tab
  • [DONE] App Tabs - Scope for 4.0 reduced (non-global), near feature complete.
  • [DONE] Extension Manager - Bug list is converging, still a lot of work to do.
  • [DONE] Web Console
  • [ON TRACK] Notification UI - Geo and EM notifications done, http auth next.
  • [ON TRACK] New Theme - Windows and Mac good, Linux catching up now
  • [DONE] TabCandy Panorama
  • [AT RISK] Silent updates on Windows
  • [DROPPED] Inspector
  • [DROPPED] Account Manager - WIP patches posted, but we can't contain the review load and code risk.

• [AT RISK] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)
  • Current status: Lots of data has been collected and analyzed, but no solid conclusions have shaken out.
  • Details page
  • Shawn has an updated blog post. Read it for more info.
  • Bugs on file that help:
    • Excessive cookie i/o bug bug 572223 (fixed)
    • Session Restore negatively impacts startup time based on the number of tabs loaded bug 582005
    • Suboptimal SQLite page size bug 416330 (fixed)
    • Provide a global VACUUM component bug 541373

Platform

(there is a team-by-team goals breakdown, as well)

• [DONE] Javascript performance near or even with Chrome 5 on their benchmarks (within 20% on SS, 30% on V8), with substantial wins on our benchmarks. (Windows, in-browser.)
• [DONE] Hardware acceleration of video and other HTML and SVG content, as well as user interface, on by default for compatible hardware on all Tier-1 desktop and mobile platforms.
• [DONE] Fully support the WebGL 1.0 spec, with support turned on by default in a Firefox 4 beta on platforms that support OpenGL or OpenGL ES.
• [MISSED] security: zero reproducible high/crit > 30 days
• [DONE] Support multi-process Fennec.
• [DONE] Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI. NOTE: jetpack team hasn't actually integrated this code yet, but it works in small test environments.

JS

• Landed YARR
• ES5
  • Landings
    • Made ES5 test suite work with javascript.options.strict set to true
  • To land once reviews (sometimes of dependent bugs) occur
    • Requiring exact argument count for getters/setters in bug 536472
    • Poison-pill for fun.caller and for arguments.caller and arguments.callee
    • JSON stringification bugfixes
    • Make arguments copy initial argument values (and not alias named parameters) in strict mode
    • Date.prototype.toJSON isn't to spec
    • Implement Function.prototype.bind
  • In progress
    • ...

Plugins and Multi-Process and Such

Areas of concern for betas/feature freeze:

• asynchronous plugin painting, bug 556487
• 32-bit plugins in 64-bit Firefox, bug 559142
• Plugins withstand app-tab reframing or dragging a tab to a new window, bug 90268

Layout

• Bug 130078 progress (goal)
  • Bug fixes keep coming, fixing tryserver test failures
  • Expecting to land next week, but Timothy may need help over the next few days
• Cool stuff landed
  • -moz-element
  • mozRequestAnimationFrame
• More stuff ready to land
  • DPI changes (mozmm unit for mobile)
  • SMIL event-based timing
    • Almost completes our support; "accesskeys" only remaining feature of interest

Video

• Landed 'buffered' (goal)
  • Implemented for Ogg and Wave
  • WebM returns no buffered ranges currently, but the basic implementation is nearly complete
• More stuff ready to land
  • 'autobuffer' -> 'preload' (spec compliance)
  • New load algorithm (spec compliance)
  • Integrated scaling + YUV conversion code (performance)
  • Switch controls to use 'buffered'
  • Make media events not be progress events (spec compliance)

Roundtable

• QA Focus Areas for Beta 4 (juanb)
• Please don't forget to mark developer documentation-impacting bugs with the dev-doc-needed keyword in Bugzilla!