Actions from last meeting
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General Topics / Roundtable
(tips/tricks/FYI, productivity improvements, industry news)
- [Standard8] Localization content best practices https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Localization/Localization_content_best_practices is now linked from Firefox/Code_Review#What_does_r.2B_mean.3F
- ntim has been optimizing our SVG files and has documented guidelines at https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/SVG_Guidelines
- There is discussion about introducing a mach command like we have for other linting (eslint, clang-format)
Friends of the Firefox team
(Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.)
- Resolved bugs (excluding employees):http://mzl.la/1KZiyVz
- More than one bug fixed:
- Aryx [:archaeopteryx][:aryx]
- Marina RodrÃguez [:mai]
- Steffen Wilberg
- aleth [:aleth]
- rthyberg
- More than one bug fixed:
Project Updates
Go Faster
- Support for loading system add-ons shipped with the application should land this week
- Updating system add-ons mid-cycle to follow
Hello
- Working on a visual refresh of the entire UI – desktop & standalone.
- Next up: if you click your own link, we’ll open it up in a conversation window as if you’d clicked it from the Hello menu.
Privacy/Security
- Deploying a heartbeat survey within the next week on 41+ to measure data on private browsing if the user opts-in to via the info bar. The survey will get a baseline in 41 and compare that with 42+ which has tracking protection.
- A diary study will also soon be taking place to get a different type of feedback on tracking protection
- Intern presentation: “Firefox Helps You Log In” Presented by Bernardo Rittmeyer https://air.mozilla.org/bernardo_rittmeyer/
- This is the last week of Bernardo’s internship.
Search
- Working on final fixes to let search suggestions ride the trains, accessibility is being a particular issue
Windows 10
- Continuing work on data migrators from Edge. Check QA/Firefox_migrators if you’re ever interested in knowing what we can migrate and to find related bugs.
e10s
- Gesture support with APZ
- Tab drag&drop thumbnails
- WIP Print to File in low-integrity sandbox
- Tab switching improvements (less of tab spinner)
- Release criteria/requirements doc https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kdYHycZN1ETRcw3B3xH4fnNnAs4dzRh3loUX9x8UhZQ/
- stability, performance, add-on compat, feature set
- a11y on -> e10s off for first release