Platform/2011-08-30
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Notices / Schedule
Firefox Development
- More Lion theme work by Dao, Markus and Stephen: bug 681425, bug 680256, bug 681974
- Continued work by Paolo Amadini on new download manager UI: bug 564934 / bug 663772
- Continued work by Jez Ng and Paul O'Shanessy on sessionstore e10s: bug 516755
Firefox Developer Tools
Performance
GFX
JS
Layout
- More 3D transforms stuff landed, some more to come before we can try turning it on by default (mattwoodrow)
- Discovered an interesting regression on Facebook where they feed -webkit properties to any browser that Modernizr says supports 3D transforms :-(
- Jonathan Kew persuaded some authors of TeX hyphenation dictionaries to relicense their dictionaries to be a bit more liberal, so we will ship dictionaries for some more languages
- Team status:
- dbaron: review hell, investigating mobile text resizing
- dholbert: CSS3 flexbox
- matspal, tnikkel: bug fixing
- fantasai: getting started on page-break-*
- jfkthame: bug fixing, patches for Graphite font support
- jwatt: converting SVG code to use display lists and be more like other layout code
- heycam: WebIDL, reworking SVG text to use CSS layout
- smontagu: implementing and unicode-bidi:isolate
Video
- Landed support for temporal media fragment URIs (e.g. http://example.com/video.ogg#t=10,20) (doublec)
- UI piece (changes to built-in controls) still needs to land
- Team status:
- doublec: bug fixing
- kinetik: tidying up libcubeb sound library for review
- karl: reviews, tuning the lighting in the Auckland office
- cpearce: fixing remaining issues with fullscreen API (such as multiprocess support)
- rgiles: starting on WebVTT subtitles
- derf, jmvalin: Opus work, WebRTC standards discussion, WebRTC demo hacking
- rjesup: WebRTC
- roc: MediaStreams processing infrastructure
DOM
WebAPI
Network
Plugins
Mobile
Accessibility
Multi-Process
Tree Management
Security
Stability Report
Desktop
Socorro
- ADUs Friday - Migration to Data Center resulted in missing some ADUs (note the wacky numbers for Friday). The issue has corrected itself.
- Duplicate Reports - Algorithm for dupes in Socorro probably needs follow up.
- Missing Bug IDs in Socorro: Bug 681682
Top Issues
Trunk - 9.0a1
Aurora & Beta
Other
- Flash stats
- Summary of daily % of Flash hangs and crashes since 03/01/11
- Still working on trying to figure out how to get better tools and data to make progress on these Bug 637661.
- Thinking about some session at the all-hands to make more traction on these.
- https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/2011-08-29/2011-08-29.firefox.7.0.flashhangdetails.html
- https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/2011-08-29/2011-08-29.firefox.9.0a1.flashhangdetails.html
- Bug 665775 - blocklist issue that has been lingering since about June. It accounts for a significant volume of crashes so we are working on getting this resolved.
Mobile
- Naoki has a detailed report for Mobile - https://wiki.mozilla.org/index.php?title=QA/Fennec/crash_rep_22Aug2011.
- Big issue - really not enough ADUs on Nightly and Aurora.
- A few issues we need to get addressed ASAP
- Still missing symbols for many of the mobile crashes - over 40% for 8a2 over 30% for 7 over 45% for release 6 - Bug 672287
- Bug 679065 - empty report list returned for top crashes.
- Crash Highlights
- Fennec 9a1: at least 81.2 % of crashers are new (out of 186 crashes); Fennec 8 has a lot of new crashers as well.
- Top crash in 6 & 7 - Bug 663494
- Special crashkill meeting today at noon to talk about how to make these crashes more visible - isolate the high volume reproducible ones and get them in front of devs.