Platform/2012-02-28
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Notices / Schedule
- We are here in the schedule
- Beta 5 will go-to-build this evening PT (2/28). Please nominate/land any applicable bugs asap. If you have a bug currently nominated for mozilla-beta approval, please make sure to be available after today’s 2-3PM PT channel meeting to land approved bugs once we complete our discussions. Alternatively ping akeybl in IRC to expedite the process.
- Code freeze for FF11 is this Friday (3/2).
- Final sign-off for FF11 will be scheduled for next Wednesday (3/7). Details to be announced on dev-planning
- The next ESR is going to build early this Friday. Please see the ESR tracking list and the landing process and ping lsblakk on IRC if you have any questions.
- Please see our Channels Triage queries to find tracked bugs for each release. Please let release-mgmt (@mozilla.com) know if any of these bugs no longer need to be tracked or need support from QA or the crash-kill team (for Socorro/crash-stats data).
Firefox Development
- Marco Bonardo landed the livemarks re-write – this was a big chunk of work which has plenty of benefits, including no more synchronous IO, and less entanglement with the rest of places (bug 613588)
- Paolo Amadini has flipped the default value of the “load tabs on demand” pref, which should help with responsiveness during session restores and memory use for large profiles (bug 711193)
- Frank Yan’s about:home revision that I mentioned a couple of weeks ago is very close to landing, just need to sort out coordination issues with the server-side snippets service (bug 711157)
- Silent update: Brian landed the remaining patches for the UAC dialog work.
Firefox Developer Tools
- CCDump – Blog post
- B2G debugging – Blog post
- Pseudo-class lock landed bug 707740
Add-on SDK
- SDK 1.5 shipped last week with preliminary mobile support
- Add-ons using SDK 1.3 will need to repackage against a newer SDK to support Firefox 11
Performance
- Snappy weekly summary
- Livemarks are now async thanks to Marco (bug 613588)
- There was an increase in negative feedback regarding Firefox 11 beta relative to Firefox 10 beta on SUMO. Cheng and Taras are investigating.
- Olli and Jan cooked up about:ccdump addon for assist with finding leaks. See Jan’s blog post for more details.
- Bill landed incremental GC this week, bug 719492. Most users will not benefit from incremental GC until Bill finishes up handling frequent “corner cases” that end up disabling incremental GC.
- Avi ported his smoothscroll logic to C++, Jared pushed it to the UX branch (bug 206438. If you are interested in fluid scrolling, give it a try, play with acceleration prefs to help us find optimal values.
GFX
- Fennec “maple” builds are getting usable, and we could probably use more technical eyes on them.
- http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-maple-android/
- This is “off-main-thread-compositing”, or OMTC.
- Probably not ready for every-day use, but already much more usable on anything with an Adreno GPU (Nexus One, HTC Desire HD, etc).
- Known issues: Some jankiness, some WebGL issues (i.e. upside-down on some devices), some checkerboarding issues.
- File whatever bugs you find in Core :: Graphics, and put “MAPLE” in the whiteboard.
- Note: This testing is only needed on Android devices; desktop should be unaffected by these changes.
JS
Layout
Notable Patches:
- bug 726582 – Prevent nsSMILCSSProperty::ValueFromString from reading uninitialized out-param
- bug 614732 – For SVG leaf frames, use mRect to store the frame’s user space bounds, and stop using it to store its covered region
- bug 725903 – PathExtentsToMaxStrokeExtents needs to take a transform argument.
- bug 725897 – Remove the inaccurate nsSVGUtils::ToAppPixelRect, and use nsLayoutUtils::RoundGfxRectToAppRect instead.
- bug 707959 – followup, move font cache telemetry into gfxFontCache::Lookup.
- bug 725376 – Don’t do column balancing deeper than 5 nested levels to avoid hang.
- bug 718516 – Replace call of FinishReflowWithAbsoluteFrames() with FinishAndStoreOverflow() for nsColumnSetFrame to prevent crash.
- bug 718516 – Remove call to FinishReflowWithAbsoluteFrames until nsColumnSetFrame is fully implemented as an absolute container.
- bug 724776 – Change SetForcedCharset to BrowserSetForcedCharacterSet.
Video
DOM
WebAPI
- Updated WebAPI wiki page to contain status for all APIs we’re currently working on.
- New API drafts for Device Storage, Wifi Information, Mobile Network information, Idle, Sensor and Settings APIs.
- Philikon has initial implementation of Mobile Network Information API.
Network
Identity
Plugins
Mobile
Accessibility
Tree Management
- Dongles installed on all OSX 10.7 test slaves – test results and wait times should be better now
Security
Security Reviews & Threat Modeling Sessions Scheduled for this week
| Date / Time | Item |
|---|---|
| Mon Feb 27 / 13:00 PST | Threat Model: Metlog |
| Wed Feb 29 / 13:00 PST | Threat Model: Token Server |
| THU Mar 1 / 10:00 PST | SecReview: WebSMS, bug 674725 |
| Fri Mar 12 / 10:00 AM PST | SecReview: Snappy Symbolic Server |
General Meeting Details * IRC Channel: #security * Etherpad: http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/secreview * Vidyo: https://v.mozilla.com/flex.html?roomdirect.html&key=5XEMsG1ApA4b (Room 9058) * Dial-in Info (phone): ** In office or soft phone: extension 92 ** US/INTL: 650-903-0800 or 650-215-1282 then extension 92 ** Toronto: 416-848-3114 then extension 92 ** Toll-free: 800-707-2533 then password 369 ** Conference num 99058
For updates to meetings please see the Security Review Calendar
- HTML: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review.html
- .ics: https://mail.mozilla.com/home/ckoenig@mozilla.com/Security%20Review
Review Needed
- Feature pages triaged to need review, review unscheduled
| Feature | Feature List | Target Rel | Prod Mgr | Lead Engr | Security lead | Security status | Security notes | Last Modified |
| Client-side XPI construction | Jetpack | Add-on Builder 2 | Daniel Buchner | Piotr Zalewa/Sean McArthur | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2011-07-13T22:16:04 |
| Add-On Tab API | ` | Add-on SDK 1.5 | David Mason | ` | Dan Veditz | sec-review-needed | ` | 2012-01-11T22:10:27 |
| Migrate Chrome settings and data | Desktop | Firefox 11 | Asa Dotzler | Makoto Kato | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2011-12-20T13:36:04 |
| Style Editor | Desktop | Firefox 11 | Kevin Dangoor | Cedric Vivier | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2012-01-25T15:25:29 |
| In-content preferences | Desktop | Firefox 15 | Jared Wein | Devan Sayles | ` | sec-review-needed | when ready sched w/ curtisk | 2012-01-25T22:43:11 |
| DOMCryptAPI (a Crypto API in the DOM) | Platform | Firefox 15? | Chris Blizzard | David Dahl | Brian Smith | sec-review-needed | ` | 2012-02-07T03:07:24 |
| Better rendering of fonts for Windows | Platform | Firefox 7 | Chris Blizzard | ` | ` | sec-review-needed | small team review Christoph, bsterne, John Daggett | 2011-10-13T00:23:00 |
| FlightDeck as a Client-side App | Jetpack | FlightDeck 1.0 | Daniel Buchner | Sean McArthur | ` | sec-review-needed | when ready sched w/ curtisk | 2012-01-25T22:43:38 |
| IndexedDB Support for Multi-Process Firefox | Platform | Future, distant future. | Chris Blizzard | ` | ` | sec-review-needed | 2011.10.17: sid recommends we wait on this one but likely needs a review. | 2011-11-10T19:14:59 |
| Sharing textures cross-process for Electrolysis | Platform | Q4 of 2011. | Chris Blizzard | Chris Jones | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2011-10-13T16:52:42 |
| SDK Support for Firefox for Mobile Addons | Jetpack | TBD | David Mason | Matteo Ferretti | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2011-08-12T17:06:55 |
| Sign into the browser | Other | TBD | Dan Mills | Ben Adida | ` | sec-review-needed | when ready sched w/ curtisk | 2012-02-28T22:04:31 |
| Tip of the day | Thunderbird | Thunderbird 11 | Jean-Baptiste Piacentino | Sancus | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2012-01-12T19:24:18 |
| Modern Address Book – V1 | Thunderbird | Under revision | ` | Mike Conley | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2012-01-12T19:38:14 |
| Blocklist UX enhancements [Plug-ins] | Desktop | ` | Kev Needham | ` | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2012-01-30T05:35:09 |
| Use PFS2 as Plugin Finder data source | Desktop | ` | Kev Needham | ` | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2011-11-10T10:54:09 |
| Add plugincheck functionality to Add-on Manager | Desktop | ` | Kev Needham | ` | ` | sec-review-needed | ` | 2011-10-24T21:28:12 |
Bugs marked sec-review-needed that need to be scheduled
Stability Report
Socorro
- Correlation reports for Aurora and Trunk are available in subdirectories of https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/crash_analysis/ starting with today as bug 723182 is fixed now (for some reason Socorro isn’t picking them up correctly, but this whole mechanism is a bit wonky and will be replaced with a better model in the next months anyhow). Will work on getting the version for the next Firefox cycle there near to the source uplifts.
- Next incremental Socorro release landing on Wednesday – no big changes, a couple of skiplist additions, fix for bug 724670 which unbreaks report lists for some Java signatures.
- Stackwalking fix for MSVC2010 (and possibly browser-side hang signatures on FF11+) could also land with this release on Wednesday, see bug 726570.
- Main focus of work for next release is ESR support.
Desktop
Trunk
- bug 730550 Crash in gfxUserFontSet::OnLoadComplete @ __delayLoadHelper2
- bug 730277 Crash @ nsWindowGfx::Data32BitTo1Bit
- bug 730274 Startup crash in nsAppShell::ProcessNextNativeEvent @ DispatchHookA
- bug 730633 crash in nsNSSSocketInfo::SetCertVerificationResult or nsNSSSocketInfo::StartTLS @ dyld_stub_binder
Aurora
- bug 729864 Crash @ js_XDRStaticBlockObject
- bug 730282 Firefox Crash @ mozilla::SignalTracerThread
Beta
- Tracking 11
- bug 729507 Firefox 11.0 Crash in JSObject::finish @ je_free | mozglue.dll@0x34..
Mobile
Graph and Soccoro work can be seen in the Testing Meeting notes 2/29/2012
Nightly
- bug 730688 – java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to resume activity {org.mozilla.fennec/org.mozilla.fennec.App}: java.lang.RuntimeException: Failure delivering result ResultInfo{who=null, request=2, result=-1, data=Intent { (has extras) }} to activity {org.mozilla.f…
- bug 730890 – crash @ libdvm.so@<address>
- bug 725167 – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Given view not a child of android.widget.AbsoluteLayout@4… at android.view.ViewGroup.updateViewLayout(ViewGroup.java)
Aurora
- bug 725295 – [Skia] Crash Report @ _ZN8SkBitmapaSERKS_ on HTC devices
- bug 730890 – crash @ libdvm.so@<address>
- bug 729129 – crash @ dlmalloc_walk_free_pages dvmHeapSourceTrim
Roundtable
- http://jprosevear.wufoo.com/forms/firefoxgecko-development-meeting-survey/
- New C++ namespace guidelines as per the discussion (no audibles):
- Put everything under namespace
mozilla - No more nested namespaces under
mozillaexcept for exceptional cases (see the style guidelines).
- Put everything under namespace