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10-October-2012

Mobile: 2012-10-10

Filed under: Posts — Tags: — Jesper Kristensen @ 11:00 pm

Schedule

  • Merge happened yesterday. Trunk is now Fx19.
  • Next merge is 2012-11-19

Major Topics for This Week

Fx16 Released

Reader and Feedback are two big features of Fx16. We have already seen lots of positive feedback on Reader. We also see a 4x spike in feedback to Firefox Input.

Stability

We seem to have finally got control of the crashes on Nightly. The crash rate is currently ~10. We should keep an eye on Fx18 as it goes to Aurora and uplift any crash fixes that did not make the merge.

Private Browsing

Brian landed the initial PB patches. This allows Nightly users to open “Private Browsing” tabs. There is still a lot of work to go, both UI and backend.

WebApps

We are working with various Product, Dev and QA groups to make a decision on promoting WebApps in Fx17 (Beta). The promotions are currently disabled, but we might turn them on for Fx17 Beta 2.

Safe Browsing

We got it turned on for Fx 18 (Aurora). First mobile browser with this feature (I think).

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 2 minutes!

Kats

  • Sep 25 – Oct 9:
    • bug 791263 – disable screenshotting under low-memory conditions
    • bug 793677 – fix regression from bug 727352
    • bug 791338 – fix focusing editable elements inside frames
    • bug 794479 – add a hook to allow java code loading by addons
    • bug 784040 – port MemoryObserver to native fennec
    • bug 794908 – NPE fix
    • PTO
  • Next:
    • bug 789923 – prune page thumbnails since they take up a lot of space
    • bug 792143 – expire tabs that have not been used in a while

Chris Lord (cwiiis)

  • Done
    • bug 794130 – Aborting painting outside the viewport (on m-c + follow-up fix)
    • bug 786740 – CSS transition with rounded borders cause rendering issues
  • Now/next
    • bug 749063 – Improve progressive tile drawing order/priority
    • bug 799856 – crash in mozilla::InternalInvalidateThebesLayersInSubtree , Firefox17b1 crashes when I canceled login to Facebook
    • bug 795259 – Enable progressive tile drawing by default on Android
  • Low priority/blocked
    • Blog about invalidation work
    • Invalidation bugs (finishing progressive tiles work first)
    • bug 785069 – tcheckerboard2 has regressed substantially since Jul 22nd
    • bug 792415 – Covered areas of fixed position elements are not rendered
    • bug 783914 – WEBGL_depth_texture doesn’t work using ANGLE (low priority)
    • bug 786412 – Consolidate ContainerLayer functions (waiting on nrc’s shadow layers work)

Chris Peterson

  • Next
    • bug 798980 – [b2g] Crash when opening an inline Activity
    • bug 766066 – mozKeyboard.onfocuschange shouldn’t be raised when you are scrolling
    • bug 796766 – [calendar/keyboard] Absolutely positioned button floats above keyboard

GCP

  • Last week:
    • Some investigation in bug 745384, bug 797895, uplifts
    • bug 741808 Finish enabling URL classification in SafeBrowsing.js component
    • bug 785960 “Don’t keep activities” developer option gets counted as OOM in telemetry
    • bug 799228 Send Android version as OS version for Telemetry
    • bug 704718 Send Android version in AUS pings instead of Linux kernel version
  • This week:
    • Check if updates cause FENNEC_WAS_KILLED
    • bug 797302 crash in mozilla::safebrowsing::SafebrowsingHash
    • bug 798778 crash in mozilla::safebrowsing::Classifier::MarkSpoiled
    • Some of

Brian N

  • Done
    • Landed bug 582244 – (pb) Implement Private Browsing
    • Landed bug 769145 – Add an opt-in for the search suggestions feature
    • Landed bug 797075 – Implement Java-side tab stubs
    • Landed bug 799015 – Use correct syntax for findClass() in JNI
    • bug 799617 – Screen goes black when starting Fennec from external URL or resuming session
  • Next
    • bug 722661 – Stub restored tabs before Gecko starts
    • bug 784086 – Change DB schema to more closely resemble places

Sriram

WesJ

‘Last week’

  • Bug 795053 – Always send the profile to Gecko if it isn’t sent in the original intent.
  • Bug 795053 – Unlock locked profiles on Android.
  • Bug 795406 – Set up profile unlocker.
  • Bug 781318 – Autofocus textboxes in prompts.
  • Bug 787765 – Retheme about:home thumbnails

‘This week’

  • Security bugs
  • Bug 744961 – Add some form of history expiration

LucasR

Last week

  • bug 792429 – Open tab menu wider
  • bug 796886 – Tabs Menu is not closed when toolbar buttons are tapped
  • Investigating:
    • bug 793769 – Tab pane switching is not smooth on tablets because web content resizes
    • bug 793771 – Use drawing cache on the tabs pane sliding on pre-ICS phone

Next week

  • Land new UI animation framework
  • Land new swipe-to-close-tab implementation
  • bug 793769 – Tab pane switching is not smooth on tablets because web content resizes
  • bug 793771 – Use drawing cache on the tabs pane sliding on pre-ICS phone
  • bug 785945 – Awesomescreen entries are very slow to appear

Margaret

  • Gave a talk at JSConfEU about Firefox for Android
    • Waiting to blog about it until they post video, but I put my slides online
    • Lots of positive feedback about the new native version (go team!)
  • Working on Gaia blockers

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week

  • bug 710298 and bug 795932: Reflow on zoom (initial prototype)
  • Some meta viewport issues in support of B2G
  • bug 795313: Modify order of conditionals in UpdateFontInflationWidthFor for performance.

This Week

  • bug 799194: Cache preference for reflow-on-zoom in a better way
  • Evaluate bugs coming in for reflow on zoom to attempt to assist in a decision about whether to ship it.
  • bug 797002: Fix uninitialized value in UpdateMinFontSizeInflationFor()

BLassey

Last week

Next week

  • in Toronto for JChen’s first week

MFinkle

Done:

  • Landed patch for campaign tracking (bug 784157)
  • Lots of goal and resource planning

Ian Barlow

In Atlanta next week from Monday-Thursday, with very limited email access.

In Progress

UX Bonus Bugs

bug 716403 Scroll header off screen: Double bonus bug – 2 boxes of cookies to whoever fixes this! Wes and Sriram both working on this!

General

  • bug 792407 Colour difference between title bar and in content UI background
  • bug 715258 Favicons are low quality for internal / local pages
  • bug 716051 Favicons are low quality for Mozilla-owned web properties

Title bar

  • bug 784362 Fix forward button bg alignment (tablets)

About:home

  • bug 787765 Update about:home thumbnails (Wes taking this)

Menu

Tabs

  • bug 792410 Update tab thumbnails
  • bug 792414 Add bottom shadow to tabs tray
  • bug 792429 Open tab menu wider (Lucas taking this)
  • [NEW] bug 718465 After opening a new tab, old tab is briefly seen (This might be solved with private browsing!)

Reader

  • bug 792420 Toolbar menu shouldn’t allow its text to be selected

Benoit Girard

  • bug 798539 Jerkiness at the end of panning
    • Silly animation timer bug
    • Hoping to uplift so keep an eye once this lands
  • bug 796117 Improve the Reusable Tile Store eviction strategy
    • Fix progressive drawing regression. Content goes blurry when changing zoom level.
  • We *MAY* disable screenshot with these improvements or we may wait for low resolution drawing.

Latest progressive drawing build:
http://people.mozilla.com/~bgirard/no_jank.apk

Round Table

QA

  • Firefox 16 chemspill (maybe respinning Fx 15?)
  • Firefox 17 beta 1 – at risk for Friday build engineering issues and the 16 chemspill

Socorro/Breakpad/Stability

Hightlights:

Socorro bugs

Skiplist

Breakpad Integration bugs

Please see Platform Meeting Notes for Stability report

SUMO

Release
Firefox Ratings on Google Play:

5 star -> 57,151

4 star -> 20,759

3 star -> 13,644

2 star -> 8,974

1 star -> 14,057

Overall rating: 3.86

114,585 Total Reviews

  • Reader Mode is a great positive, it’s listed in Reviews as one reason to choose Firefox over Chrome
  • Performance is another plus for us in this release
  • Google Play Solicitation is working as expected, Input is getting a lot more Feedback, and Google Play Reviews are increasingly Positive.
  • Full Analysis of Input/Feedback for this release will occur when we fix our Input Tool and 16.0.1 is released.
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