General Topics / Roundtable
(tips/tricks, productivity improvements, industry news)
- New BrowserTestUtils directory for shared testing utilities
- BrowserTestUtils has a bunch of useful utilities for testing and avoids having duplication between head.js files.
- ContentTask.spawn is useful for running code in the content process in an e10s-safe way.
- How to get a profile from a hung process (Mac and Linux)
- Easily add live pref-controlled logging to your module which outputs to stdout and the Browser Console (with inspectable objects):
XPCOMUtils.defineLazyGetter(this, "log", () => {
let ConsoleAPI = Cu.import("resource://gre/modules/devtools/Console.jsm", {}).ConsoleAPI;
let consoleOptions = {
maxLogLevelPref: PREF_LOG_LEVEL,
prefix: "My Log Prefix",
};
return new ConsoleAPI(consoleOptions);
});
- Frequency of this meeting
- May change to once every 2 weeks. No decision made yet.
- What is the status of feature reviews?
- Need to ask bsmedberg. mfinkle gave examples of more things being considered for the list.
- What is the status of product line reviews?
- One happened yesterday. An update should occur shortly.
- Have we centrally documented our new sub-team structure?
- Helps to find whom to ask if you have a question about something
- Existing module system doesn’t have answers for User Experience and Product
- Mossop will document out what the sub-teams are and possibly list members.
Friends of the Firefox team
Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping report, fix and test bugs.
Thanks to the following people for regular contributions to the desktop Firefox front-end in the last year!
- Alice White [:Alice0775]
- Aryx [:archaeopteryx][:aryx]
- Brian R. Bondy [:bbondy]
- Ekanan Ketunuti
- Ian Moody [:Kwan]
- Luís Miguel [:Quicksaver]
- Masatoshi Kimura [:emk]
- Richard Marti [:Paenglab]
- Sören Hentzschel
- Tim Nguyen [:ntim]
- Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]
- and probably others who were missed!
Project Updates
e10s
- Team is in “M8” – see list of M8 bugs here
- Team is starting to shift focus from “make e10s work” to “fix add-ons with e10s” and “make e10s fast”
- Fun facts:
- about:newtab is being moved from XUL -> XHTML, and will soon be runnable in the content process, thanks to :ursula (see bug 1021654)
- The Lightweight Theme web installer should now be working with e10s, thanks to :jimicy (see bug 653065)
- We’re doing bi-weekly talos comparisons between e10s and non-e10s. Those reports are put in here: bug 1144120
- Very interesting data about e10s stability and performance on dev-platform
- Reminder:
- Bugs that should be triaged by the e10s team should be marked with the tracking-e10s flag set to ?
- Triage occurs every Tuesday (4PM ET) and Thursday (12PM ET) in the e10s vidyo room.
- Come join us in #e10s for your e10s questions.
Go Faster
- Targetting a v1 in aurora by end of Q3
- Meetings, notes, status reports: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Go_Faster
Privacy/Security
- Control center replaces Larry
- Planning to ship Tracking Protection in Private Browsing for 42
- Likely one tracking list with a tour (spec).
- Interns are continuing great work on the password manager for 42.
Search
- Aiming to ride 42 train
- Unified Autocomplete bugs still being resolved
- Search suggestions in the awesomebar
Windows 10
- Ensure Firefox is not completely broken in Firefox 40 (fix critical bugs) and tweak UI to make it fit in better with Windows 10 look and feel overall.
- Windows 10 updates officially to start to go out on July 29th, 2015.
- Firefox 40 GA on Aug 11th, 2015.
- Looking into changes to how default applications are set
Details
- Third Tuesday of the month – 8:00am Pacific, 11:00am Eastern, 15:00 UTC
- Handy local meeting time link
- Dial-in: conference# 91337
- US/Toll-free: +1 800 707 2533, (pin 369) Conf# 91337
- US/California/Mountain View: +1 650 903 0800, x92 Conf# 91337
- US/California/San Francisco: +1 415 762 5700, x92 Conf# 91337
- US/Oregon/Portland: +1 971 544 8000, x92 Conf# 91337
- CA/British Columbia/Vancouver: +1 778 785 1540, x92 Conf# 91337
- CA/Ontario/Toronto: +1 416 848 3114, x92 Conf# 91337
- UK/London: +44 (0)207 855 3000, x92 Conf# 91337
- FR/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92 Conf# 91337
- irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel
- “Firefox” Vidyo Room