{"id":1538,"date":"2013-10-22T23:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/?p=1538"},"modified":"2013-10-22T23:00:07","modified_gmt":"2013-10-23T03:00:07","slug":"firefox-status-2013-10-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/meeting-notes\/archives\/1538","title":{"rendered":"Firefox Status: 2013-10-22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"mw-content-ltr\" dir=\"ltr\" id=\"mw-content-text\" lang=\"en\">\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<h2 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Project_Updates\">Project Updates<\/h2>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Australis\">Australis<\/h3>\n<p>For TART performance, we&#8217;ve drilled down to 2 bugs:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=924415\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 924415<\/a> &#8211; Find out why setting chromemargin to 0,-1,-1,-1 is so expensive for TART on UX branch on OS X.\n<ul>\n<li> Affects OS X 10.6 the most, and 10.7 a little bit. Accounts for almost the entirety of the OS X TART regression.\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=924415#c15\" rel=\"nofollow\">The investigation on this<\/a> has reached a point where we need dedicated help from Graphics. Waiting to hear from Milan to see if they can give us some cycles.\n<\/ul>\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=921038\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 921038<\/a> &#8211; Move selected tab linear-gradient into stroke image and\/or SVG\n<ul>\n<li> Coupled with SVG caching (which just hit inbound, and will hopefully stick this time), this should be enough to neutralize the Windows XP TART regression.\n<li> MattN and mconley are still trying to determine if this is a practical way of drawing the tab backgrounds. Tabs are complicated, and there are many cases we have to account for, so we&#8217;re still doing that.\n<\/ul>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For general usability\/feature bugs:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> We have made great progress on P1 and P2 bugs. We now have a number of P3 and P4 bugs to focus on, and will likely retriage these bugs to account for the large number in their buckets and keep up the great pace.\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"Thumbnailing\">Thumbnailing<\/h3>\n<p><b>Foreground thumbnailing<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> WIP patch still awaiting Tim&#8217;s feedback: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=809056\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 809056<\/a> &#8211; reduce thumbnailing impact when there are no thumbnail service consumers\n<li> new (and applies to background thumbnailing also): <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=928014\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 928014<\/a> &#8211; Investigate removing thumbnail IO worker thread\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Background thumbnailing<\/b>\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> Ready to enable on beta and release (see <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=927688\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 927688<\/a>), with the possible exception of a hang in <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=902755\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 902755<\/a>, which is in the patch-review cycle, and a failing compositor assertion also discussed in that bug.\n<li> We&#8217;d like to uplift enable-on-beta-and-release to Aurora so that it makes its way to beta sooner rather than later, on the next merge. These bugs need to be uplifted as well: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=924665\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 924665<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=917610\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 917610<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=917609\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 917609<\/a>. All apply cleanly to Aurora. <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/tbpl.mozilla.org\/?tree=Try&amp;rev=c8eda3703066\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tryserver results<\/a> with those bugs applied to Aurora.\n<li> fixed: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=897872\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 897872<\/a> &#8211; crash in mozilla::dom::ContentParent::RecvAddGeolocationListener\n<li> in patch-review cycle: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=902755\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 902755<\/a> &#8211; Deadlock in mozilla::ipc::GeckoChildProcessHost::LaunchAndWaitForProcessHandle after turning on new tab page thumbnails\n<li> patch for Dolske&#8217;s review, but Gavin points out another approach that happens to be blocked by another bug: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=908277\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 908277<\/a> &#8211; Make sure the background thumbnail service can&#8217;t open permission UI\n<li> investigated further: <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=893404\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 893404<\/a> &#8211; Intermittent browser_thumbnails_background.js | Test timed out\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"SessionStore\">SessionStore<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> Worked on a few regressions that were introduced lately, our startup code path is complicated. (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=853779\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 853779<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=929097\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 929097<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=918276\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 918276<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=928630\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 928630<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=900910\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 900910<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=919532\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 919532<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=912975\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 912975<\/a>).\n<li> Landed a couple of patches that bring us closer to data collection working in an e10s build (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=909048\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 909048<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=910668\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 910668<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=921762\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 921762<\/a>).\n<li> Still working on cleaning up patches for Marionette restart\/shutdown support and adding more tests for SessionStore&#8217;s startup path (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=923607\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 923607<\/a>, <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=923606\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 923606<\/a>).\n<li> We&#8217;re almost ready to land <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=899276\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 899276<\/a> that prevents private tabs from being saved to disk which means that it should be easier for add-ons to make docShells private.\n<li> Also almost ready to land the global value API that we&#8217;ve been working for a while now (<a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=899213\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 899213<\/a>).\n<li> We landed <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=921581\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 921581<\/a> that will bring us closer to a working and sane crash detection mechanism that would have prevented most of the regressions we talked about above.\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=922756\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 922756<\/a> Bbondy finishing up Windows sandbox\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=897061\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 897061<\/a> Felipe working on autocomplete\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=919835\" rel=\"nofollow\">bug 919835<\/a> Billm working on session restore\n<li> Dvander working on OMTC software compositor for Windows and Linux.\n<li> Ncameron is working on hardware-accelerated compositor for Windows.\n<li> Mhammond working on e10s tests.\n<\/ul>\n<h3 class=\"mw-headline\" id=\"QA\">QA<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li> add your qawanted\/qa-urgent request here\n<li> train QA leads\n<ul>\n<li> 25 &#8211; ashughes\n<li> 26 &#8211; juanb\n<li> 27 &#8211; tracy\n<li> 28 &#8211; ashughes\n<li> 29 &#8211; juanb\n<li> 30 &#8211; tracy\n<\/ul>\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; 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10:00am Pacific, 1:00pm Eastern, 17:00 UTC\n<li> <a class=\"external text\" href=\"http:\/\/arewemeetingyet.com\/Los%20Angeles\/2013-08-20\/10:00\/w\/Firefox%20development%20meeting\" rel=\"nofollow\">Handy local meeting time link<\/a>\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 href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=Firefox\/Meeting\/22-Oct-2013&amp;oldid=734807\">https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/index.php?title=Firefox\/Meeting\/22-Oct-2013&amp;oldid=734807<\/a>&#8220;<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends of the Firefox team Give a shoutout\/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Project Updates Australis For TART performance, we&#8217;ve drilled down to 2 bugs: bug 924415 &#8211; Find out why setting chromemargin to 0,-1,-1,-1 is so expensive for TART on UX branch on OS X. 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