Firefox/Meeting/17-Sep-2013

Details

• Tuesdays - 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC
• Handy local meeting time link

• Dial-in: Audio-only conference# 91337
  • People with Mozilla phones or softphones please dial x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 4000) Conf# 91337
  • US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • FR/Paris: +33 1 84 88 37 37, x4000 Conf# 91337
  • 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
• irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
• "Firefox" Vidyo Room

Friends of the Firefox team

Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.

• Luís Miguel (aka Quicksaver) for reviewing, testing and providing feedback on all the findbar bugs that we've been working on the past couple of months!

Project Updates

Thumbnailing

Foreground thumbnailing

• fixed in bug 906615 (below): bug 809051 - Limit how often we thumbnail the page using the foreground service
• WIP patch: bug 809056 - reduce thumbnailing impact when there are no thumbnail service consumers

Background thumbnailing

• landed: bug 912763 - Disable background thumbnails on Beta
• landed: bug 906615 - Background thumbnail service shouldn't overwrite existing thumbnails, or at least foreground thumbnails should be preferred
• landed: bug 910563 - gracefully handle remote process crashing
• landed: bug 898156 - crash in Background thumbnail generation @ mozilla::net::FTPChannelParent::OnStartRequest
• landed: bug 913171 - Intermittent browser_thumbnails_background.js | Captured URL should be currently expected URL
• resolved invalid: bug 903840 - Requests from BackgroundPageThumbs service show up in devtools panels
• resolved WFM due to bug 875986: bug 908962 - Investigate using bypass-history and -cache load flags in background thumbnail browser
• making progress: bug 896912 - Investigate test failures muted by bug 892875
• new: bug 916497 - Intermittent TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | browser_thumbnails_redirect.js | Test timed out
• new: bug 915384 - Intermittent ASAN browser_thumbnails_background.js,browser_thumbnails_update.js

Stand ups

Suggested format:

• What did you do last week?
• What are working on this week?
• Anything blocking you?

Please keep your update to under 1 minute!

gavin

(gavin's Status Board)

paolo

(paolo's Status Board)

mak

(marco's Status Board)

enn

(Neil's Status Board)

felipe

(felipe's Status Board)

mano

(Mano's Status Board)

ttaubert

(Tim's Status Board)

adw

(Drew's Status Board)

markh

(Mark's Status Board)

smacleod

(Steven's Status Board)

dolske

(dolske's Status Board)

mconley

(Mike's Status Board)

mikedeboer

(Mike's Status Board)

gijs

(gijs' Status Board)

Unfocused

(Blair's Status Board)

MattN

(MattN's Status Board)

jaws

(jaws's Status Board)

mixedpuppy

(mixedpuppy's Status Board)