Platform/2013-03-12

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesday 2013-03-12 - 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 98411
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 98411
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 98411
  • Gmail Chat (requires Flash and the Google Talk plugin): paste +1 650 903 0800 into the Gmail Chat box that doesn't look like it accepts phone numbers
  • SkypeOut is free if you use the 800 number
• Engineering Vidyo Room / Warp Core / SFO-Boardroom / Tor Commons Finch
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Notices/Schedule

?? bugs (?? bugs last week)	?? bugs (?? bugs last week)
Unresolved Aurora 54 Trackers (non-security, not tracked for Beta)	Unresolved Beta 128 Trackers (non-security)

Key Issues

• War on Orange - "extremely positive response from devs in many intermittent-failure bugs -- RyanVM and Ed would like to thank everyone who has chipped in so far! :-)
• Turning off window.Components for the web

Products/Projects

Firefox Mobile

Blog shout out (repeat signal 'cause it's valuable info)

http://gbrownmozilla.wordpress.com/2013/03/02/firefox-for-android-performance-measures-february-check-up/

Usability and Responsiveness

• Landed preff'd off in Fx22 and will ride the trains: bug 716403 - Request to hide the navigation bar when scrolling down content. We're busy landing follow up fixes including bug 849539, bug 849254, bug 850154
  
  • Help wanted: take nightly for a spin and set browser.chrome.dynamictoolbar = true via about:config
    
• We're landing final support for ARMv6 QVGA support shipping in Fx20 on April 2nd; QA is testing inbound build for a fix for bug 840593 - In content UI cut off on small screens
• bug 846774 - We need to find out what Gecko is doing when geckoEventSync aborts due to timeout landed last week and we should benefit from this long term to help us improve responsiveness
• Keep eyes open for more outcomes from last week's work week!

Stability Report [Weekly]

• Bugs that need attention:
  • bug 744836 (... nsThread::Dispatch | nsTimerImpl::PostTimerEvent) - jumped into top 10 on Aurora 21, needs assignee
  • bug 798274 (gfxContext::PushGroupAndCopyBackground) - came back to be top 10 in Nightly, assigned to Bas but no action for months
  • bug 812881 (libsomxcore.so) - #2 on Android release, assigned to cdouble but no action in >6 weeks
  • bug 846465 (libstagefright.so, HTC devices, JB) - #2 topcrash on Android Beta, needs assignee
  • bug 782223 (libGLESv2_tegra.so, Nexus 7, JB) - #3 topcrash on Android Beta, needs assignee

Note:

• • bug 752828 - android.database.sqlite.SQLiteDatabaseLockedException: database is locked at android.database.sqlite.SQLiteStatement.native_executeSql(Native Method) on ICS
    • STR in bug, workaround did not work ( bug 843029 )

• Mobile :
  • if anyone has run into the following bugs, please contact QA/Dev for Firefox for Android Team:
    • bug 782223 - crash in libGLESv2_tegra.so@0x4ae.. on Asus Nexus 7 (NVIDIA Tegra 3) with JB
    • bug 834243 - crash in mozilla::layers::LayerManagerOGL::Initialize with abort message: "We need a context on Android"
    • bug 795675 - crash in JSC::Yarr::interpret mainly on JB

Mobile Web Compat [2nd Tuesday of Month]

Outreach

• A couple of weeks ago I blogged Help Wanted: Firefox OS UA Detection
  • Fixes for Dailymotion, Dropbox, and Stack Overflow
  • New introductions for Abril, BBC, Bing, eHow, ESPN, Globo, Google (Accounts, GMail, Maps, News), Orange, TechTudo, ThinkGeek, Yahoo, Yelp
  • The best way to get sites fixed is with technical contacts, please share!

• UA detection frameworks WURFL and DeviceAtlas recognize Firefox OS as mobile

Gecko

• Two Gecko Firefox OS compat issues
  • bug 832923 Implement <input type='file'> on B2G (blocks Facebook and Twitter)
  • bug 850209 - Support h.264 in <video> element (blocks Web video but does have workaround - use Web activity)

• Firefox for Android Tablet UA to remain unchanged
  • bug 829596 Remove "Tablet" from UA string of Firefox on Android tablets

Misc

• Req for Web Compatibility Engineer

• New meeting time, Mondays, 1-2pm PT