Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)
- No further release blockers for 32. Proceeding as scheduled. Release notes will be sent out for review tomorrow.
- OSX v2 signing requirements have impact on Firefox
- Short term solution is to work with Apple to add Firefox releases to a white list
- Target for supporting changes is Firefox 34
- CHANGE: Next merge will happen on Tue, Sep 2, 2014
Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)
Summary of Work In Progress
- You can find the most recently completed iteration (34.2) performance report here
- You can see the status of the current iteration (34.3) in progress here
Uplifts
Beta (33)
- Intermittent browser_426329.js | This test exceeded the timeout threshold. It should be rewritten or split up. ( Bug 947574 )
- browser_bug248970.js is almost perma fail when run by directory on osx opt ( Bug 1002439 )
- about:sessionrestore shows instead of about:welcomeback after a reset ( Bug 1035557 )
- Stop icon in context menu does not have inverted variant ( Bug 1041121 )
- SharedFrame docshell swapping is broken (Loop and SocialAPI affected) ( Bug 1047316 )
- Incorrect behavior for “Save Page to Demo Social Service” icon (flag icon) for HTTPS pages ( Bug 1047340 )
- FHR payloads contain invalid UTF-8 Characters ( Bug 1055102 )
Aurora (34)
- Provide search suggestions on Firefox Start Page (about:home) ( Bug 612453 )
- refactor nsSearchSuggestions to use a reusable JSM ( Bug 1007979 )
- Provide search suggestions on Firefox new tab page (about:newtab) ( Bug 1028985 )
- Enhanced Tiles (history tiles enhanced with unhover/hover states) ( Bug 1030832 )
- Race condition setting experiment branch while a write is pending ( Bug 1038174 )
- Refactor search tests to remove some code duplication ( Bug 1041534 )
- Handle OpenH264 updates for long-running sessions ( Bug 1042161 )
- Manage search Engine option in new tab is not working (broken) if search bar is removed ( Bug 1045008 )
- entering square brackets in location bar crashes [@ nsDefaultURIFixup::KeywordURIFixup(nsACString_internal const&, nsDefaultURIFixupInfo*, nsIInputStream**) ] ( Bug 1047393 )
- SearchBar Search Suggestion is no longer able to disable ( Bug 1048198 )
- media.gmp-manager.url should mention GMP ( Bug 1050877 )
- window sharing indicator on the URL bar stays on after stream.stop has been called ( Bug 1051855 )
- Telemetry experiments: experiment branches still changing after bug 1038174 (search provider not being reverted back to original in search experiment) ( Bug 1052545 )
- Intermittent browser_urlbarSearchSingleWordNotification.js | Test timed out | Found a browser window after previous test timed out ( Bug 1052750 )
- Clicking on Mac share icons does not get Firefox into focus ( Bug 1052779 )
- A string of numbers entered in the address bar prompts user with infobar asking if they’d like to go to the number ( Bug 1053245 )
- uplift about:home/about:newtab search suggestions to Firefox 33 ( Bug 1054516 )
Summary of Recent Landings
- Team landed 63 bugs over the last week, for the first half of the 34.3 iteration.
- Details of landings from the past week can be seen here
Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)
Work In Progress
- Chromecast – continuing to bug fix based on nightly feedback
- WebRTC OpenGL on Roku, tab sharing support bug 1048425
- Experimenting with Bing as the default search engine – bug 1049108
- Remote Tabs home panel bug 1014994,first patches have landed
- Moz Stumbler should be landing in nightly this week.
- Tablet refresh: Continuing to progress
- bug 1046200 – Create BrowserApp.isNewTablet()
- bug 1047561 – Create settings UI for enabling the new tablet UI
- bug 1048575 – Disable dynamic toolbar when in new tablet UI
- Janus https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Janus
- Client connection speed assessment
You can find more on upcoming feature plans in the[roadmap]
Uplifts from the past week
Beta (33)
- Regression: lost the ability to set and or remove an existing master password ( Bug 1042657 )
- Zoom level changes on some mobile sites on pressing the back button ( Bug 1046631 )
Aurora (34)
- Allow users to “try again” more than once on new error pages. ( Bug 910893 )
- Add UI telemetry for managing search engines ( Bug 1007523 )
- Measure default application setting in telemetry ( Bug 1030935 )
- crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.ChromeCast.pause(ChromeCast.java) ( Bug 1046537 )
- Crash at android.os.TransactionTooLargeException: at android.os.BinderProxy.transact(Native Method) at org.mozilla.gecko.PromptService.show(PromptService.java) ( Bug 1048387 )
- Setting to clear data on quit doesn’t clear tabs from last time panel ( Bug 1052387 )
- Use correct background selector on tabs panel’s menu button ( Bug 1054323 )
- Do not allow casting UI to appear if the video is an unsupported format ( Bug 1054920 )
Landings from the past week
Nightly (35)
- Homepage contextual hint ( Bug 1021751 )
- Lightweight first-run experience ( Bug 1042809 )
- Blurry text on google search results ( Bug 1043961 )
- Update Home Feeds add-on to address feedback requests ( Bug 1046215 )
- ‘Paint flashing’ localizations need more space for text, gets cropped/truncated ( Bug 1048418 )
- Regression: door-hangers and other images used in UI are transparent ( Bug 1055598 )
Developer Tools (Jeff/Rob/Dave)
- landings
- Highlight all matching nodes from the style editor
- pretty quiet week, 30 bugs fixed
Planning Meeting Details
- Wednesdays – 11:00am PT, 18:00 UTC
- Mountain View Offices: Warp Core Conference Room
- Toronto Offices: Finch Conference Room
- irc.mozilla.org #planning for backchannel
- (the developer meeting takes place on Tuesdays)
Video/Teleconference Details – NEW
- 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 x92 Conf# 99696 (US/INTL)
- 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 99696 (US)
- Vidyo Room: ProductCoordination
- Vidyo Guest URL
- AirMozilla: for broadcast and saved recordings