Platform/2012-02-07

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays – 11:00 am Pacific
• Dial-in: conference# 95312
  • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95312
  • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312
• Warp Core Vidyo Room
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Notices / Schedule

Firefox Development

• As mentioned last week, New Tab is now on by default. Tim Taubert is on a tear fixing followup issues, improving performance of the thumbnail service, and making styling tweaks.
• Inline autocomplete has been disabled on trunk while we fix some additional issues that popped up (bug 720792). Marco is on the case, and we’ll get that re-enabled shortly.
• Chemspill candidates for FF10 are being discussed at today’s channel meeting (2PM PT in Warp Core)

Firefox Developer Tools

• Initial Debugger Has Landed
  • Preffed off: to enable, set devtools.debugger.enable to true.

Performance

• Telemetry dashboard is now public! See Taras’ presentation for access details.
• Performance work week summary from Jared.
  • Front-end activities and notes
• Safebrowsing move from SQLite to flat file landed (bug 673470)
• Various front-end telemetry probes landed, and a bunch more are in-progress.
  • Notes from perf work-week
  • page thumbnails for new-tab (bug 721019)
  • site identity popup (bug 723090)
  • Places idle frecency updates (bug 723124)
  • Places idle maintenance tasks (bug 723126)
  • Firefox menu opening time (bug 723515)

GFX

JS

Layout

• Edwin Flores (intern) making good progress on “embedded SVG glyphs in OpenType fonts” (aka “SVG Fonts Done Right”) bug 719286. We should have something shippable-but-preffed-off-by-default soon.
• Other notable patches:
  • bug 721068 Graphite font shaping update from SIL
  • bug 722322 Have the “1” and “2” keys switch between images in reftest-analyzer.xhtml
  • bug 722071 Implement array style indexing for SVGStringList
  • bug 714839 nsCSSFrameConstructor now inherits nsFrameManager

Video

• libcubeb landed for Windows, but was disabled due to some random test failures
  • Matthew working on reenabling that, plus tracking down failures in Mac and ALSA backends
• WebRTC:
  • alder repo now builds on Win32 (thanks Ted!).
  • Win32, Linux and Mac can capture images from video with fabrice’s bug 629955 patches
  • Chrome is now shipping Canary Chromium builds with a very early version of WebRTC enable-able. A number of 3rd-parties have built early demos based on it; several were shown at IETF Interim last week.
  • Data channel API/protocols firming up; will evangelize at HTML5 Gaming work week in Toronto (great for games!) and look to implement ASAP

DOM

WebAPI

• Started work on WebNFC
• Mounir is editor for Network Information API and Screen Orientation APIs at W3C

Network

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

Accessibility

Tree Management

Security

• No security reviews this week due to security work week in Santa Cruz.
• Please work with Curtis to schedule reviews and
• Update feature pages so we have accurate information

Stability Report

Socorro

Desktop

Firefox 10 Top Issues

• Noticed increase in cycle collector crashes – GCGraphBuilder::NoteXPCOMChild(nsISupports*) – #2 crash
  • bug 724129 – startup crash nsXBLDocumentInfo::cycleCollection::Traverse
  • bug 724284 – Security bug we believe is causing the above regression.
  • bug 718284 – Bug in FF11 that is also causing an increase of these crashes.
• Startup crash @ PR_EnumerateAddrInfo | nsDNSRecord::GetNextAddr – #3 crash
  • bug 718389 – Spike we saw in FF10b4
  • No clear next steps for investigation. Correlation reports have been inconclusive.
• bug 725009 – crash je_free | mozutils.dll. May be related to Flash.

Firefox 11 Top Issues

• Increase in hangs – bug 722394
  • bug 709209 – This is complicating our investigation.
  • Marcia logging some plugin side reports that might help uncover the issue – bug 724617
  • Top concern, not making much headway – need some developer help with the analysis.
• bug 715401 – new on 11a2 but rising in b1 – trying to isolate the regression range.
• bug 718284 – Separate issue causing increase in cycle collector issues.

Firefox 12 Top Issues

• Nothing new and notable on Aurora yet.

Trunk Top Issues

• Tracking a number of new crashes related to the landing of some plugin work bug 90268
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Bug-90268

Mobile

• Socorro fixes to separate out Java signatures – fix went out last week.
  • bug 719943– new field in json metadata needs exposure in the UI
• Crash volume going down after a bunch of fixes landed last week.

Trunk Top Issues

• Still lots of new stuff landing. Focus on logging all the new Java signatures…
• top crash fixed – bug 723550 – Lots of base64 decode errors in logcat
• bug 724215 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoEvent.addMotionPoint(GeckoEvent.java)
• bug 723495 – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: View not attached to window manager at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.findViewLocked(WindowManagerImpl.java) – (affects 13, 12, 11)

Aurora Top Issues

• bug 711852 – Crash in neon_composite_over_8888_8888 or neon_composite_over_n_8_0565 or fast_composite_over_8888_0565 or arm_neon_fill @ libxul.so@0xa – (affects 12, 11)

Beta

• Not enough data yet – top issue is just 4 crashes
• bug 719741 – Crash @ __libc_android_abort | dlfree | free | fclose

Roundtable