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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

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

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

GFX

  • D2D status:
    • Direct2D is not turned on by default for Firefox 4 beta 4. (We weren't confident enough to turn it on for all users.)
    • However, all the code in Firefox 4 beta 4, and it should work reasonably well for everyone.
    • We really need testers, both on the beta and on nightlies. (We plan to enable Direct2D in nightlies as soon as beta 4 is tagged and branched.)
      • To turn on Direct2D: Go in to about:config and set mozilla.widget.render-mode to 6, and gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled to true.
      • To turn off Direct2D, once it is on by default, set mozilla.widget.render-mode to 0.
      • To check whether you are running with Direct2D, go to about:support and look at the bottom. (Once bug 586046 lands, there will be even more information about your graphics card in there.)
      • Please look out for memory usage, rendering speed, and any rendering problems you might see. Also focus on interactions with plugins like Flash.

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)

Content

  • Big thank you to jduell, dwitte, mayhemer, jdm, for getting the last e10s necko fennec a1 blockers fixed and landed!

Tree Management

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!
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