Schedule

• Next merge is Week of 2013-01-06
• Fx18 Betas are shipping weekly

Major Topics for This Week

Android x86 Builds

We hinted that we were close. Now, thanks to kmoir, we have Android x86 on tbpl and nightlties. Brad is making sure the details (updates and testing plans) are ready before doing the next update post.

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!

James W. (snorp)

• [Bug 800838] Android crash in nsNPAPIPluginInstance::UnscheduleTimer @ nsNPAPIPluginInstance::TimerWithID
• [Bug 821777] Populate flash version in telemetry data
• [Bug 809055] Moving Firefox to background while playing a flash video in full screen mode and bring it back to view will freeze the app
• Worked on a patch to make pausing compositor not block gecko thread
• Investigate benchmarketing stuff (cross-browser benchmarks)

Kats

• Dec 12 – Dec 19:
  • bug 780831 – land patch for flash crashes
  • bug 818060 – add a memory reporter for graphics tiling textures
  • bug 820545 – investigate safebrowsing-related stuff in about:rights and update comment
  • bug 821224 – fix a crash caused by improper bitmap recycling
  • bug 816164 – gzip the crash report submission
  • bug 816551 – fix JS warning on startup
  • bug 817134 – delete screenshot code
  • bug 818676 – verify NDK r8c can be used to build android on build machines
  • figured out how to run new DMD on android (filled in https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink/DMD)
  • filed bug 822810 about strange behaviour observed with low-res tiling and painting (blocking gfx memory reductions)
  • bug 822698 – fix DMD compilation on android with gcc 4.6

• Next:
  • upload my armv6 memory usage data to AWSY
  • bug 807104 – turn on jsloader.reuseGlobal in fennec

GBrown

• Last week:
  • Finished (?) unit test support for webrtc: bug 811411 and related – waiting for reviews
  • Wrote wiki entry for unit tests: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Fennec/Android#cppunittests
  • bug 810347 More flexible test root support in sutAgent
  • bug 817235 Allow remote xpcshell tests to use /mnt/sdcard/tests as test root
  • bug 814805 Android xpcshell tests: chmod permission problems on rooted device
• Next:
  • PTO this Friday … return Dec 31

Chris Peterson

• More B2G

JChen

• Past week:
  • Fixed bug 818715 – Moving cursor handle in input field causes keyboard to lock up
  • Fixed bug 810821 – Tapping on url bar with Samsung Galaxy Note’s II stylus doesn’t have url text selected
  • Fixed bug 821229 – The virtual keyboard is dismissed on first match when using Find in Page
  • Investigated bug 820750 – Intermittent test_bug430276.html | application crashed
  • Continued work and blog post on bug 818301 – make JimDB work with C++ unit tests
  • Interest in bug 809018 – DateTimePicker does not have 12 hour mode
• Next:
  • More work on bug 818301 – make JimDB work with C++ unit tests
    • And bug 822786 – make JimDB work with remote mochitests
  • bug 822755 – ANR when GeckoEditable responds to stale actions
  • bug 814689 – Typing is not working for full flash sites
  • bug 821257 – Typing 1 character in google search will insert 2 characters
  • bug 809329 – Duplicate letters when Xperia pro keyboard has suggestions
  • bug 816486 – First letter is capitalized in the URL bar when using Swype Keyboard on LG Slider

Brian N

• Done
  • Bug 795045 – Confine cursor positioning thumb control to edit box
• Now
  • Bug 820491 – PBM – Unable to initiate a download in Private Browsing mode
• Next
  • Thumb positioning follow-ups
  • Bug 816998 – Clipboard buffer contains copied link from a Private Tab outside of Private Browsing

Sriram

• Done:
  • LayerDrawable mutations causing problems in 4.2.1 – bug 821453
  • Enhancing tabs-tray to show different sections – bug 817706
  • about:home text color change based on persona theme – bug 822421
  • Firefox wordmark should be white on dark themes – bug 822422
  • Search suggestion text illegible – bug 821311
  • Personas not applied – bug 822133
  • Uplifting persona based patches to aurora.
• Blockers:
  • Polished visual designs for new tabs-tray.
  • Decision on selection color to be something other than orange.

WesJ

‘Last week’

• Bug 822926 – Allow extensions to add custom panes to the Awesomescreen. WIP up. Any ideas or feedback are welcome.
• Bug 681805 – [TABLETUI] Hide forward button when there is not forward shistory… landed
• Bug 818494 – Swipe to close tab action is sensitive
• Bug 736321 – Support HTML context menus – New patch up to support sub menus better
• Bug 783312 – Make top sites customizable on about:home. Nother round of reviews. Lucasr is out for now so I’m pushing these to mfinkle now.

‘This week’

• Bug 704229 – Add a full-screen button for HTML5 video (Fennec Native)
• Bug 792077 – Fennec mulit-locale apk should contain only java, browser, and select toolkit strings
• More fiddling with about:home
• Helping with PointerEvents implementation

Margaret

Done:

• Landed multi-touch keyboard patch – bug 806540
• Interviews

Next:

• More interviews
• Continue to help with Gaia blockers
• Reading Effective JavaScript by Dave Herman for fx-team reading group

Scott (jwir3)

Done:

• bug 654352 : document.caretPositionFromPoint implementation (reviewed, just moving to WebIDL at Ms2ger’s request)
• bug 821801 : Separate out ViewportInfo struct for better conditional detection of mobile sites.

In Progress:

• bug 803719 : Reflow-on-zoom should zoom in and snap to a piece of text (required above bug 654352, just need to modify the patch to utilize it. Should be in review tomorrow)
• bug 756518 : Modify conditional detection of mobile sites for font inflation (required above bug 821801).
• bug 808173 : Make reflow-on-zoom disabled for non-text elements.
• bug 757257 : Font inflation on ubi.com yielding unexpected results.

BLassey

Last week

• didn’t actually land anything
• worked on
  • Kindle Fire HD crashing on start up
  • packaging APKs inside APKs to handle scary permissions better
  • sorting out bug 683262

MFinkle

Fixed:

• bug 820868 – Lightweight theme previews do not work on Firefox for Android, breaking the preview/install flow
• bug 819554 – Disable warning for sms protocol
• bug 820623 – Javascript warning on fennec startup (NativeWindow.menu.add)
• bug 821840 – Fix redeclaration warning in SessionStore.js
• bug 820658 – Private Browsing leaks history in SQLite’s Write-Ahead Log for tabs.db

Laned:

• bug 715258 – Favicons are of low quality for local/internal pages

Looked at making pageloads faster:

• Using performance mode content-sink preferences
• Turning off throbber

(Neither was beneficial to any measurable degree)

Ian Barlow

• Tab UI visual design / spec underway
• Preparing some notes for a Font Licensing newsgroup discussion happening the new year.
• Private browsing UX review
• Starting to think about MWC
• Working with Madhava on a UX Design Values deck

Gone next week, back Jan 2. Happy Holidays!

Round Table

• Unresolved bugs, tracking-firefox-18 : +
  • http://bit.ly/V6Twxq

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SUMO Feedback

Google Play

5-Star: 103,968

4-Star: 29,430

3-Star: 15,883

2-Star: 9,881

1-Star: 16,022

Overall Rating: 4.12 Stars

There haven’t been any major issues cropping up over this week. We will be having our last report of the year rolling out this week, and the SUMO team will be back on board after Jan 2nd.

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Schedule

• Next merge is Week of 2013-01-06
• Fx18 Beta 3 shipped

Major Topics for This Week

\o/

Over 20 million total installs, >100K 5-star reviews and solid 4.1 rating. Yay team!

Tabs Tray UI Plans

We have a bunch of new work that will start on updating parts of the tabs tray UI on tablets and phones (bug 817675). The initial parts are tied into some of the Private Browsing work and will land on m-c as part of Fx20. Other parts will likely start work on a “twig” (cypress) and be merged back when it’s ready, which will likely be Fx21.

UI Overdraw Problems & Layout Complexity

Using some guidance from an Android dev, we are working on reducing “overdraw” in the UI. This should improve responsiveness and animation performance. We’ll also be taking this opportunity to try to simplify our layout complexity, which also adds to the responsiveness and animation problems.

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!

James W. (snorp)

• This week / Last week
  • Bugs (800838, 789271, 746998, 747323, 786996)
  • B2G profiling

Kats

• Dec 5 – Dec 12
  • bug 780831 – (in progress) tracked down the problem with flash leaking local refs, working on fixes
  • started profiling galaxy q, had a few profiler fixes: https://github.com/bgirard/Gecko-Profiler-Addon/pull/37
  • bug 805353 – fix crash caused by improper synchronization
  • bug 820172 – fix android build when building with gcc 4.6
  • closed out bug 792144 after discussing with :dvander
  • bug 818060 – (in progress) adding a memory reporter for graphics textures
  • bug 816164 – (in progress) verified that the server-side changes are ok on staging server
  • bug 820556 – remove some dead gfx code
  • bug 820546 – don’t preprocess some files unnecessarily

• Next
  • finish up bug 818060, bug 816164 and bug 780831
  • get back to profiling to find and eliminate jni-related locking on the compositor thread

GBrown

• Last week:
  • Unit test support for webrtc: bug 811411
  • bug 780867 Intermittent robocop TEST-UNEXPECTED-FAIL | testNewTab | Checking tab closed
  • bug 769524 Frequent robocop testSearchSuggestions | GeckoEventExpecter – blockForEvent timeout: SearchEngines:Data
  • bug 781581 Intermittent testWebContentContextMenu | checking that awesome bar clicked
  • bug 814278 Intermittent testThumbnails | Exception caught – java.lang.NullPointerException
  • bug 819093 make mochitest-remote via adb broken
  • bug 820322 Intermittent testHistoryTab | Exception caught – java.lang.NullPointerException
  • bug 820336 Intermittent testWebContentContextMenu | checking that painted surface loaded – under investigation
  • bug 770483 Intermittent Robocop testAboutPage | GeckoEventExpecter – blockForEvent timeout: Tab:Added – under investigation
• Next:
  • Finish off unit test support for webrtc
  • Get back to robocop bugs

Chris Peterson

• Ongoing B2G keyboard work

JChen

• Past week:
  • Fixed bug 818501 – Some composition spans are not displayed
  • Added a test for bug 811755 – Holding backspace in a designMode editor repositions cursor
  • Fixed bug 819073 – Keyboard stops working after going back from Awesomescreen when “Don’t keep activities” is enabled
  • Worked on bug 810821 – Tapping on url bar with Samsung Galaxy Note’s II stylus doesn’t have url text selected
  • Worked on bug 818301 – make JimDB work with C++ unit tests
    • Also bug 819052 – JimDB not usable for C++ Android unit tests when invoked manually
• Next:
  • More improvements to debugging C++ unit tests
  • bug 809329 – Duplicate letters when Xperia pro keyboard has suggestions
  • bug 815521 – SwiftKey colon long-press inserts colon and ‘b’ in URL bar for first instance of colon (“about:b”)
  • bug 818715 – Moving cursor handle in input field causes keyboard to lock up
  • bug 816486 – First letter is capitalized in the URL bar when using Swype Keyboard on LG Slider
  • bug 820750 – Intermittent test_bug430276.html | application crashed

GCP

• Last week:
  • Holidays
  • Rework WebRTC build patches wrt feedback/reviews
  • https://webrtc-apps.etherpad.mozilla.org/4?
  • Study bug 715376 implement per-page event queue, to allow timeout grouping/prioritization/etc
• This week:
  • bug 812650 android webdev wants to capture audio using mozGetUserMedia

Brian N

• Done
  • Bug 769919 – Intermittent testBookmark | bookmarks list has 4 children (the default bookmarks) – got 5, expected 4
  • Bug 819070 – Going back from Awesomescreen opens additional tabs when “Don’t keep activities” is enabled
  • Bug 735399 – Only do session restore after a crash
  • Bug 801646 – PBM – Tab opened from other private browse tabs should become a private browse one
  • Bug 820576 – Search suggestion URLs should go directly to URL
• Now/Next
  • Bug 818065 – PBM – Make an about:privatebrowsing page
  • Bug 795045 – Confine cursor positioning thumb control to edit box

Sriram

• Refreshed the private browsing UI resources. bug 818071
• Prototype for new tabs-tray complete. http://cl.ly/image/2Q1K1M3K1225
  • Blocked on UX designs.
• Trying to figure out the personas problem in 4.2.1
  • A temporary solution is available — will post a patch today.
• Next: Long list of persona related bugs for marketplace.

WesJ

• Bug 809401 – Horoscopo app doesn’t scroll properly as an App
• Investigated Bug 792077 – Fennec mulit-locale apk should contain only java, browser, and select toolkit strings. There is a startup slowdown with 42 locales in the apk.
• Bug 816875 – Add a “show controls” context menu item on videos with hidden controls
• Bug 808408 – Hide Virtual Keyboard when bookmarks list is opened

New patches in:

• Bug 681805 – [TABLETUI] Hide forward button when there is not forward shistory…
• Bug 783312 – Make top sites customizable on about:home

This week:

• Bug 797615 – Intermittent testHistoryTab, testBookmark, testHistory | PaintExpecter – blockUtilClear timeout (x3)

LucasR

Last week

• bug 817526 – Rotating device while in awesome screen might break toolbar layout
  • bug 818874 – URL Bar is covered on the right edge by the Tabs Menu button
  • bug 817828 – Black area near tabs button after the URL bar is animated with horizontal orientation
• bug 800071 – Hide the quit menu item on ICS and greater versions
• Started the “Featured Bugs” experiment: http://lucasr.org/?p=3209
  • Propose featured bugs & Track your mentored contributors in the etherpad: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/mobile-contrib
• Reader Mode on desktop Firefox reached functional level: http://msujaws.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/status-update-9-of-reader-mode-for-desktop-firefox/
• (In progress) New tab UI
  • This will be developed in the “cypress” twig repo: http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/cypress

Next week

• More New tab UI

Margaret

• Working on multi-touch support for the Gaia keyboard – bug 806540
• Organizing fx-team reading group – https://etherpad.mozilla.org/fxteam-reading

Scott (jwir3)

Last Week:

• Got help from Cwiiis and snorp re: Mobile Debugging/List elements. Thanks guys! I have been planning to create a bug to make a more robust form of this, but haven’t yet created one.
• Looking into some font inflation bugs, specifically ones that we might be able to knock out in the next week or so (bug 757257, etc.). This might work toward fixing the ycombinator bug, but I’m not 100% sure yet.

This Week:

• bug 803719 : Reflow on zoom needs to zoom in and snap to a piece of text – I’m blocked with a strange issue where it’s not correctly identifying the DOMRange. I’ve been speaking with dbaron and blassey about this. I think that bug 654352 : Implement API for document.caretPositionFromPoint() will be of assistance here. I’m trying to get this resolved (there’s currently an issue with it, and it had to be backed out). I think that the reflow-on-zoom bugs and this bug will likely use the same code behind the scenes.

BLassey

Last week

• all x86 all the time

Notes

• Web compatibility
  • Please dig into failures you see
  • It is OKAY to fix a site or framework and submit a patch

MFinkle

Working on:

• Disabling the Gecko prompt that appears after tapping a “sms:” so we go straight to the SMS app instead (bug 819554)
• Fix a JS error in NativeWindow.menu.add API (bug 820623)
• Skipping the “Allow” prompt when installing a lightweight theme (persona) from AMO (bug 820829)

Next Week:

• PTO for Monday and Tuesday

Ian Barlow

Planning all the things \o/

• MWC demo planning
• “Save for later” project planning
• “Multi-screen UX” project planning
• Setting some Firstrun UX goals with creative, UX, SUMO
• Brainstorming with UX team about WebRTC
• Visual Design work week in Toronto
• UX Team year in review session on friday

Also, Tab UI and PB UI

• Private Browsing – ongoing polish we’d like to see in Fx20
  • bug 818071 Adjust title bar background to work with current icons and tab colour
  • bug 818072 Back and forward button enabled / disabled states look reversed (could be related to previous bug)
  • bug 818077 Avoid orange highlights when private browsing
  • bug 818065 Make an about:privatebrowsing page
  • bug 818067 Make entire awesomescreen dark when private browsing

• Tab refinements – meta bug 817675
  • bug 817706 Add sections for normal, private and synced tabs
  • bug 817721 Place tab tray on top in tablet portrait view
  • bug 817728 Allow tab sidebar to be pinned open in landscape view
  • bug 817732 Apply large tablet UI to smaller tablets like the Nexus 7
  • bug 817735 Horizontal tab scrolling in landscape view for phones
  • bug 817749 Phone – adjust tab title bar to help differentiate main menu from tab menu
  • bug 818124 Create new tab transition (from tab tray)
  • bug 817716 Add ability to close all tabs
  • bug 817739 Add more information to synced tabs
  • bug 701725 Enable the ability to undo a closed tab
  • bug 718434 Visually denote new tabs that haven’t been visited yet

Round Table

QA

Channels

• Beta
  • 10 open bugs tracking 18+ with no patches, http://goo.gl/u2SHR

Crashes

• On release, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=812881 is rising. Needs progress.
  • Service now request in to get an 225 GPU Galaxy SIII
• On beta, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780831 is #1 by far, has progress now.

SUMO Feedback

Welcome to Roland Tanglao, the new Firefox for Android support lead!

Input is still down for the count, we are monitoring feedback by hand. Unfortunately this doesn’t give us the ability to get as detailed reports as we’d like, but we haven’t seen major or new issues cropping up. Major complaints remain the same as before, UX issues around Privacy, bookmarks, history, etc. Users want to edit the start page or have their own home page. Noticing alot of feedback of users not wanting to use the mobile version of the site, unfortunately not all of it is linked to a device so can’t tell if it’s mainly tablets or not.

Google Play is still trending up significantly, awesome work everyone 🙂

5 star 100,585

4 star 28,812

3 star 15,766

2 star 9,826

1 star 15,912

ARMv6

Reading more feedback flowing in, feedback has slowed to a crawl. No new problem devices, overall our ARMv6 rollout seems to be successful. If you have further requests around ARMv6, please ping Tyler, otherwise, while we will continue to monitor ARMv6 feedback, we won’t specially focus on it until our next expansion.

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