Schedule & Progress onUpcoming Releases (Lukas/Sylvestre/Lawrence)
- 33 beta 9 desktop gtb tomorrow (last desktop beta)
- 33 beta 10 mobile gtb Monday (last mobile beta)
- 33 release candidates build Mon/Tue next week
- Upcoming Aurora uplifts
- Loop changes
- OSX Gatekeeping v2 signature changes landing on Nightly this week. Still targeting 34 for this change (uplift coming shortly)
- CloudSync uplift landing this week (bug 993584)
Firefox Desktop & Platform (Javaun/Chad/Martin)
Summary of Work In Progress
- You can see the status of the current iteration (35.3) in progress here
Summary of Recent Landings
- Team landed 80 bugs over the last week, to complete the 35.2 iteration.
- Details of landings from the past week can be seen here
Priorities for the upcoming iteration
- e10s on Nightly
- Loop:
- finalize accounts/contacts work
- UX: design spike looking into “collaboration” use cases
- “Panic button”: better-exposed “Clear Recent History” functionality
- “Reset button on the web”: a mechanism to prompt users to reset Firefox when they try to download Firefox when already running the latest version
- OS X Yosemite themeing work
- New tab page performance investigations
- Places performance work (main thread IO removal)
- Translation trial followup
Firefox Mobile (Mark/Brad/Jenn)
Work In Progress
- Progress on MediaCodec patches
- Investigation into standalone WebRTC
- Cloudsync
- Janus Proxy– fixes & improvements
- Lots of activity around Toolbar Refresh (bug 1071267 bug 1019127 bug 960746 bug 1070087 bug 1072464 bug 1072469 bug 1075531)
- Second Screen (bug 1054959 bug 1074567
You can find more on upcoming feature plans in the[roadmap]
Uplifts from the past week
Beta (33)
- crash in mozilla::gfx::AlphaBoxBlur::Blur(unsigned char*) ( Bug 1028802 )
- crash in mozilla::gfx::SourceSurfaceAlignedRawData::InitWithStride(mozilla::gfx::IntSizeTyped<mozilla::gfx::UnknownUnits> const&, mozilla::gfx::SurfaceFormat, int, bool) ( Bug 1067018 )
- crash in android.content.res.Resources$NotFoundException: Resource is not a Drawable (color or path): TypedValue{t=0x1/d=$ a=3 r=$} at android.content.res.Resources.loadDrawable(Resources.java) ( Bug 1067429 )
- [roku] add a ‘beta’ label to the Roku channel until client code hits ‘release’ ( Bug 1068573 )
Aurora (34)
- Add telemetry for Settings usage ( Bug 996753 )
- Visible seams on the page (maybe at tile borders?) ( Bug 1009306 )
- Disable downloads and extension installs in guest mode ( Bug 1046941 )
- crash in webrtc::ViEInputManager::NumberOfCaptureDevices() ( Bug 1063547 )
Landings from the past week
Nightly (35)
- Send NS_NETWORK_LINK_DATA_CHANGED events on Android ( Bug 1024614 )
- WebApp startup slowed significantly by debug server ( Bug 1034114 )
- crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.home.PinSiteDialog$3.onFocusChange(PinSiteDialog.java) ( Bug 1041448 )
- APKs for previous versions of Nightly and Aurora stick around in Downloads ( Bug 1051654 )
- Performing searches with Wikipedia search engine immediately launches Fennec ( Bug 1063193 )
- crash in java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Wifi:Enable was not registered at org.mozilla.gecko.EventDispatcher.unregisterListener(EventDispatcher.java) ( Bug 1063541 )
- The URL displayed under tab titles in the Synced Tabs panel disappears for a while after choosing “Open in New Tab”/”Open in Private Tab” ( Bug 1064162 )
- Synced Tabs panel shouldn’t be present in Guest Mode ( Bug 1064177 )
- Firefox: User doesn’t go back to the channel after watching video till the end ( Bug 1068633 )
- Android crash in mozilla::image::RasterImage::DecodeSomeData ( Bug 1069369 )
- Selecting “No video” and “No audio” options from the permission prompt still shows the content of the device camera and the audio active ( Bug 1070989 )
- System download manager needs a build time pref ( Bug 1071091 )
- Form autocomplete dialog can take up the entire screen and make it really hard to use fennec ( Bug 1071738 )
- Tapping sometimes triggers two clicks ( Bug 1071758 )
- crash in java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.db.PerProfileDatabases.getDatabaseHelperForProfile(PerProfileDatabases.java) ( Bug 1072332 )
- Regression: Open/Close animation of the tabs tray and menu is sluggish ( Bug 1072376 )
- Issues with hidden/unhidden devices on Synced Tabs ( Bug 1072954 )
Feedback Summary (Cheng/Tyler/Matt)
Desktop
- OMTC removal caused a spike in “blackouts” but now that it’s back, it seems to be going down.
Market Insights from the Market Strategy Team (Kev)
Read-only notes this week. Apologies, folks. – kev
Notes
- The Windows 10 (insert OS X joke here) technical preview is available. Interestingly, there are 32 and 64 bit versions, potentially putting to rest speculation that it’d be 64-bit only. Potentially.
- Google is apparently continuing to expand bundling requirements for branded Android phones, including expanding the number of apps that must be included, and a reported requirement for apps to render web pages with Google’s WebView component (vs. other engines)
- Huawei has launched a $325 superphone in India (octo-core, 3GB ram, 1080p screen, etc.), impressive specs as chipsets announced at MWC earlier this year finally start making it into the market
- Firefox has been named PC Magazine’s Editor’s Choice for browsers
- Net Applications is reporting an increase in IE8 users, likely from corporate (and other) upgrades from Windows XP.
- While it’s been around for a couple weeks, the Cosmos Browser app for Androidis getting some mentions for its unique approach. No data plan required, but everything’s sent via SMS/MMS.
- Adobe is bringing Photoshop to Chromebooks, addressing one of the knocks against the platform’s inability to run popular speciality software. Note that it’s a streaming version, and continues a trend of streaming client apps to a remote/mobile client/
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