{"id":1444,"date":"2013-08-20T23:00:09","date_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/?p=1444"},"modified":"2013-08-20T23:00:09","modified_gmt":"2013-08-21T03:00:09","slug":"firefox-status-2013-08-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/1444","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Status: 2013-08-20"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr\" dir=\"ltr\" id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\">\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"General_Topics\">General Topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Firefox\/Get_Involved\" title=\"Firefox\/Get Involved\">Firefox\/Get_Involved<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Friends_of_the_Firefox_team\">Friends of the Firefox team<\/h2>\n<p><i>Give a shoutout\/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs.<\/i>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Andrew Wang (:velocirabbit) and Jesse Fox (:jfox) for helping to fix their first bugs in SessionStore. [ttaubert]\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Project_Updates\">Project Updates<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Australis\">Australis<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Character encoding widget has landed (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=865916\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 865916<\/a>)! Great work from mikedeboer, d\u00e3o and Gijs.\n<li> Exit Application button added to the menu panel (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=871203\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 871203<\/a>). Shout out to D\u00e3o and MC Only!\n<li> The tpaint regression (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=889758\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 889758<\/a>)\n<ul>\n<li> For non-PGO Windows XP is in the ~0.5% range! \\o\/\n<li> For PGO Windows XP is in the ~3.3% range. o_O\n<\/ul>\n<li> We&#8217;ve been working with avih and vladan from perf on dealing with our TART regressions\n<li> mconley&#8217;s been working with BenWa to get <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benoitgirard.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/21\/video-synced-profiling\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Video Sync&#8217;d Profiling<\/a> working properly on Windows to make it easier to identify what is causing dropped frames.\n<li> Markus Stange has the beginnings of <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=902857#c11\" rel=\"nofollow\">a reflow profiler<\/a> that we could use to find out why UX&#8217;s reflows are more expensive than m-c&#8217;s. <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/tests.themasta.com\/cleopatra\/?report=e67ac706f10f1c717933f2cd35e7682d77ba6d5c\" rel=\"nofollow\">Here&#8217;s an example profile<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Downloads_API\">Downloads API<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Almost enabled in Nightly!\n<li> Regressions to be filed as blocking <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=825588\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 825588<\/a>.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/mail.mozilla.org\/pipermail\/firefox-dev\/2013-August\/000804.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">More details in the firefox-dev post.<\/a>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Thumbnailing\">Thumbnailing<\/h3>\n<p><b>Foreground thumbnailing<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=809051\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 809051<\/a> &#8211; Limit how often we thumbnail the page using the foreground service\n<ul>\n<li> patch posted for feedback\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background thumbnailing<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=897880\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 897880<\/a> &#8211; Background thumbnail service must not overwrite existing thumbnails if it gets an error response\n<ul>\n<li> landed\n<\/ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=901294\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 901294<\/a> &#8211; Unexpected downloading will be started by after every restart of the browser due to background thumbnailing\n<ul>\n<li> patch r+&#8217;ed, but depends on <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=906276\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 906276<\/a>, in review\n<\/ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=896912\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 896912<\/a> &#8211; Investigate test failures muted by bug 892875\n<ul>\n<li> discussion about how the about:newtab preloader affects background thumbnail generation\n<\/ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=903949\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 903949<\/a> &#8211; about:memory and the background thumbnails process are combining to cause hangs and unexpected behaviour\n<ul>\n<li> fixed\n<\/ul>\n<li> Mark <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/groups.google.com\/forum\/#!topic\/mozilla.dev.tech.network\/X8t4Sob3l9U\" rel=\"nofollow\">posted to dev.tech.network<\/a> about using the LOAD_ANONYMOUS flag to better sandbox background thumbnail page loads\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=904341\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 904341<\/a> &#8211; Content-blocking addons not working with background thumbnails\n<ul>\n<li> Bill is working on a back-end patch that may be helpful\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"SessionStore\">SessionStore<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> A little code cleanup in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=904460\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 904460<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=904529\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 904529<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=904003\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 904003<\/a>, and <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=904480\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 904480<\/a>.\n<li> Rewrote how cookie collection works <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=903398\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 903398<\/a>.\n<li> More work on e10s data collection <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=894595\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 894595<\/a>.\n<li> We don&#8217;t deceed write interval anymore <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=902280\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 902280<\/a>.\n<li> Work on global value API in progress <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=899213\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 899213<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Places_API_asyncification\">Places API asyncification<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Mak going to investigate intermittent failures and incompatibilites (Xmarks) introduced by automatic batching\n<li> Mano should have patches for async transaction manager and consumers ready by the end of the week\n<li> Raymond has new patch for GUIDs in json backups, Mano reviewing it soon\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"e10s\">e10s<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=899222\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 899222<\/a> About:home relanded\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=897060\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 897060<\/a> Select Dropdown on review\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=906237\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 906237<\/a> Mac input bug landed today on central\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=896748\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 896748<\/a> Notification API support\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=899348\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 899348<\/a> Tab crashed page\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=905436\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 905436<\/a> Add-ons tracking bug for work needed to make some add-ons work\n<\/ul>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Stand_ups\">Stand ups<\/h2>\n<p>Suggested format:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> What did you do last week?\n<li> What are working on this week?\n<li> Anything blocking you?\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please keep your update to under 1 minute!\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"gavin\">gavin<\/h3>\n<p>(gavin&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/gavin%40gavinsharp.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"paolo\">paolo<\/h3>\n<p>(paolo&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/pamadini%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"mak\">mak<\/h3>\n<p>(marco&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/mak%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"enn\">enn<\/h3>\n<p>(Neil&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/enndeakin%40gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"felipe\">felipe<\/h3>\n<p>(felipe&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/felipc%40gmail.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"mano\">mano<\/h3>\n<p>(Mano&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/mano%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"ttaubert\">ttaubert<\/h3>\n<p>(Tim&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/ttaubert%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"adw\">adw<\/h3>\n<p>(Drew&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/adw%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"markh\">markh<\/h3>\n<p>(Mark&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/mhammond%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"smacleod\">smacleod<\/h3>\n<p>(Steven&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/smacleod%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"dolske\">dolske<\/h3>\n<p>(dolske&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/dolske%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"mconley\">mconley<\/h3>\n<p>(Mike&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/mconley%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"mikedeboer\">mikedeboer<\/h3>\n<p>(Mike&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/mdeboer%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"gijs\">gijs<\/h3>\n<p>(gijs&#8217; <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/gijs%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Unfocused\">Unfocused<\/h3>\n<p>(Blair&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/bmcbride%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"MattN\">MattN<\/h3>\n<p>(MattN&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/mozilla%40noorenberghe.ca\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"jaws\">jaws<\/h3>\n<p>(jaws&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/jaws%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"mixedpuppy\">mixedpuppy<\/h3>\n<p>(mixedpuppy&#8217;s <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/weekly-updates.fcgi\/user\/scaraveo%40mozilla.com\" rel=\"nofollow\">Status Board<\/a>)\n<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Details\">Details<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li> Tuesdays &#8211; 10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC\n<li> <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Teleconferencing\" title=\"Teleconferencing\">Dial-in<\/a>: conference# 91337\n<ul>\n<li> US\/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 91337\n<li> US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 91337\n<li> Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 91337\n<li> FR\/Paris: +33 1 44 79 34 80, x92  Conf# 91337\n<\/ul>\n<li> irc.mozilla.org #fx-team for backchannel\n<li> &#8220;Firefox&#8221; Vidyo Room\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"printfooter\">\nRetrieved from &#8220;<a 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Andrew Wang (:velocirabbit) and Jesse Fox (:jfox) for helping to fix their first bugs in SessionStore. [ttaubert] Project Updates Australis Character encoding widget has landed (bug 865916)! Great work from mikedeboer, d\u00e3o and Gijs. 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