Platform/2012-02-07

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays – 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: conference# 95312
  • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95312

  • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312
• Warp Core Vidyo Room
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Contents 1 Notices / Schedule 2 Firefox Development 3 Firefox Developer Tools 4 Performance 5 GFX 6 JS 7 Layout 8 Video 9 DOM 10 WebAPI 11 Network 12 Identity 13 Plugins 14 Mobile 15 Accessibility 16 Tree Management 17 Security 18 Stability Report 18.1 Socorro 18.2 Desktop 18.2.1 Firefox 10 Top Issues 18.2.2 Firefox 11 Top Issues 18.2.3 Firefox 12 Top Issues 18.2.4 Trunk Top Issues 18.3 Mobile 18.3.1 Trunk Top Issues 18.3.2 Aurora Top Issues 18.3.3 Beta 19 Roundtable

Notices / Schedule

Firefox Development

• As mentioned last week, New Tab is now on by default. Tim Taubert is on a tear fixing followup issues, improving performance of the thumbnail service, and making styling tweaks.

• Inline autocomplete has been disabled on trunk while we fix some additional issues that popped up (bug 720792). Marco is on the case, and we’ll get that re-enabled shortly.
• Chemspill candidates for FF10 are being discussed at today’s channel meeting (2PM PT in Warp Core)

Firefox Developer Tools

• Initial Debugger Has Landed
  • Preffed off: to enable, set devtools.debugger.enable to true.

Performance

• Telemetry dashboard is now public! See Taras’ presentation for access details.

• Performance work week summary from Jared.
  • Front-end activities and notes
• Safebrowsing move from SQLite to flat file landed (bug 673470)
• Various front-end telemetry probes landed, and a bunch more are in-progress.
  • Notes from perf work-week

  • page thumbnails for new-tab (bug 721019)
  • site identity popup (bug 723090)
  • Places idle frecency updates (bug 723124)
  • Places idle maintenance tasks (bug 723126)
  • Firefox menu opening time (bug 723515)

GFX

JS

Layout

• Edwin Flores (intern) making good progress on “embedded SVG glyphs in OpenType fonts” (aka “SVG Fonts Done Right”) bug 719286. We should have something shippable-but-preffed-off-by-default soon.

• Other notable patches:
  • bug 721068 Graphite font shaping update from SIL

  • bug 722322 Have the “1″ and “2″ keys switch between images in reftest-analyzer.xhtml
  • bug 722071 Implement array style indexing for SVGStringList
  • bug 714839 nsCSSFrameConstructor now inherits nsFrameManager

Video

• libcubeb landed for Windows, but was disabled due to some random test failures
  • Matthew working on reenabling that, plus tracking down failures in Mac and ALSA backends
• WebRTC:
  • alder repo now builds on Win32 (thanks Ted!).

  • Win32, Linux and Mac can capture images from video with fabrice’s bug 629955 patches
  • Chrome is now shipping Canary Chromium builds with a very early version of WebRTC enable-able. A number of 3rd-parties have built early demos based on it; several were shown at IETF Interim last week.
  • Data channel API/protocols firming up; will evangelize at HTML5 Gaming work week in Toronto (great for games!) and look to implement ASAP

DOM

WebAPI

• Started work on WebNFC

• Mounir is editor for Network Information API and Screen Orientation APIs at W3C

Network

Identity

Plugins

Mobile

Accessibility

Tree Management

Security

• No security reviews this week due to security work week in Santa Cruz.

• Please work with Curtis to schedule reviews and
• Update feature pages so we have accurate information

Stability Report

Socorro

Desktop

Firefox 10 Top Issues

• Noticed increase in cycle collector crashes – GCGraphBuilder::NoteXPCOMChild(nsISupports*) – #2 crash
  • bug 724129 – startup crash nsXBLDocumentInfo::cycleCollection::Traverse

  • bug 724284 – Security bug we believe is causing the above regression.
  • bug 718284 – Bug in FF11 that is also causing an increase of these crashes.
• Startup crash @ PR_EnumerateAddrInfo | nsDNSRecord::GetNextAddr – #3 crash
  • bug 718389 – Spike we saw in FF10b4

  • No clear next steps for investigation. Correlation reports have been inconclusive.
• bug 725009 – crash je_free | mozutils.dll. May be related to Flash.

Firefox 11 Top Issues

• Increase in hangs – bug 722394
  • bug 709209 – This is complicating our investigation.

  • Marcia logging some plugin side reports that might help uncover the issue – bug 724617
  • Top concern, not making much headway – need some developer help with the analysis.
• bug 715401 – new on 11a2 but rising in b1 – trying to isolate the regression range.
• bug 718284 – Separate issue causing increase in cycle collector issues.

Firefox 12 Top Issues

• Nothing new and notable on Aurora yet.

Trunk Top Issues

• Tracking a number of new crashes related to the landing of some plugin work bug 90268
  • https://etherpad.mozilla.org/Bug-90268

Mobile

• Socorro fixes to separate out Java signatures – fix went out last week.
  • bug 719943- new field in json metadata needs exposure in the UI
• Crash volume going down after a bunch of fixes landed last week.

Trunk Top Issues

• Still lots of new stuff landing. Focus on logging all the new Java signatures…

• top crash fixed – bug 723550 – Lots of base64 decode errors in logcat
• bug 724215 – java.lang.NullPointerException: at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoEvent.addMotionPoint(GeckoEvent.java)
• bug 723495 – java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: View not attached to window manager at android.view.WindowManagerImpl.findViewLocked(WindowManagerImpl.java) – (affects 13, 12, 11)

Aurora Top Issues

• bug 711852 – Crash in neon_composite_over_8888_8888 or neon_composite_over_n_8_0565 or fast_composite_over_8888_0565 or arm_neon_fill @ libxul.so@0xa – (affects 12, 11)

Beta

• Not enough data yet – top issue is just 4 crashes

• bug 719741 – Crash @ __libc_android_abort | dlfree | free | fclose

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Platform/2012-01-31

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays – 11:00 am Pacific

• Dial-in: conference# 95312
  • US/International: +1 650 903 0800 x92 Conf# 95312

  • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
  • Canada: +1 416 848 3114 x92 Conf# 95312
• Warp Core Vidyo Room
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Contents 1 Notices / Schedule 2 Firefox Development 3 Firefox Developer Tools 4 Performance 5 GFX 6 JS 7 Layout 8 Video 9 DOM 10 WebAPI 11 Network 12 Identity 13 Plugins 14 Mobile 15 Accessibility 16 Tree Management 17 Security 17.1 Security Review Needed but Unscheduled 18 Stability Report 18.1 Socorro 18.2 Desktop 18.2.1 10.0 18.2.2 11.0 18.2.3 12.0 18.3 Mobile 19 Roundtable

Notices / Schedule

• MSVC 2010 today.

• Firefox 10 shipping today (rrrt@mozilla.com for broken websites)
  • If you see any fallout, please notify rrrt@mozilla.org (Rapid Release Response Team)

Firefox Development

• New Tab Page (bug 455553): Little bit of a bumpy landing, but it’s landed now, still preffed-off by default. There are several followup issues to fix, but we think it’s ready to enable by default on trunk, and so we’ll do that after the merge.

• Line breaks in tooltips (bug 358452): long standing HTML spec compliance issue, now FIXED for Firefox.
• Silent update
  • Add-ons default to compatible ships today in Firefox 10

  • Windows UAC service rides the train to Aurora

Firefox Developer Tools

• Firebug 1.10 is restartless and lazily initialized.

• Page Inspector in general release Firefox 10
• (inaudible) Initial Debugger UI and Protocol landing SOON

Performance

• Snappy is transitioning from identifying issues to fixing issues. Good stuff coming.

• CC + GC are the most well-known causes of pauses in Firefox. Olli is landing huge cycle collector improvements (half of the patches landed so far), bug 705582, bug 717500. If that doesn’t solve all CC problems by Tuesday, Andrew is standing by with bug 710496 to limit how often CC can run. These improvements have a good chance of showing up in Firefox 12.
• about:jank indicated that laggy sessions are primarily caused by our direct2d accelerated drawing code, bug 721273. Turning off graphics acceleration made things a lot less slow (Options/Advanced/use hardware acceleration). It you experience lots of lag in your sessions (on youtube, blogs with high quality backgrounds, etc) please try about:jank. This requires running a very recent nightly.
  • Install the extension, go to about:jank, browse around, then refresh about:jank. In the case of gfx lag, DrawThebesLayers shows up on top.
• Benoit’s profiler works well on Mac now, Windows support may be as early as this week.
• Telemetry histograms should now survive restarts (so we can do shutdown telemetry, etc), bug 707320.
  • edit: this had to be backed out due to startup crashes. :(
• Working on session restore issues this week.

GFX

• bug 720428 – Quartz canvas should be lots faster in today’s build.

JS

• sharp variable support was removed, bug 566700

Layout

• No update

Video

• Nothing to report

DOM

• New DOM bindings starting to take shape. A group of DOM team members met in Paris last week to start up the third and largest stage of the new DOM bindings work. This work is being tracked here

WebAPI

Services team working on support for “remote events”. I.e. ability to get notifications even if you’re not on website.

Network

• Networking team is in SF this week, drop by and say hi if you’d like.

• Working to deploy node.js to test machines so we can land SPDY automated tests. This is the last thing we need to do before we try enabling SPDY by default.

Identity

Identity work will see Mozilla storing user data on Mozilla servers, so it’s important to highlight these two posts (by Mitchell and Ben, respectively):

• http://blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012/01/13/user-sovereignty-for-our-data/

• https://blog.mozilla.com/privacy/2012/01/13/mozilla-to-offer-new-user-centric-services-in-2012/

Spec for BrowserID DOM API is well under way, ready for feedback from DOM/WebAPI team:

• https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/BrowserID

Plugins

• Bug 90268, content ownership of plugins, should land today.

Mobile

• ICS plugin support is waiting for a mozconfig update to land. Should be in for tomorrow’s nightly

• tile painting is in on trunk
  • it is a regression in terms of checkerboarding ATM

  • will uplift to aurora and beta when the regression is resolved
• final decision for UA String has been made (for 11) after many gyrations
  • “Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Linux armv7l; rv:11.0a1) Gecko/20120127 Firefox/11.0a1 Mobile/11.0a1″

  • Mobile will be dropped for Tablets when we support tablets (FF12 or FF13)
  • XUL Fennec’s UA will keep the Fennec token
  • https://twitter.com/dougturner/status/164400723147243520

Accessibility

• Nothing to report. (A11y work progressing well on many fronts)

Tree Management

• No updates

Security

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Jan 30 / 13:00 PST	No Review, please attend Fuzzing Brownbag
Wed Feb 1 / 13:00 PST	bug 718066 – [meta] Add feature to submit anonymous product metrics to Mozilla
THU Feb 2 / 10:00 PST	Instant Messenger in Thunderbird
Fri Feb 3/ 10:00 AM PST	AVAILABLE SLOT

Calendar and Meeting details

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

Security Review Needed but Unscheduled

• Review Needed

Stability Report

Socorro

• Socorro release Wed.
  • Considering holding until Thursday due to the Fx release today – feedback welcome
• Fixes for exposing mobile Java signatures.

Desktop

• top crash list – http://bit.ly/vO7SxB

10.0

• Driver issue(?)
  • Tracking a spike in crashes with b6, maybe with certain drivers – bug 722538 and bug 700288. Several other signatures in the mix.

  • Looking into blocklist solution but not obvious it will solve the problem – bug 722538
• bug 721196 [@ nsUrlClassifierPrefixSet::StoreToFd(mozilla::AutoFDClose&) ]

11.0

• Seems we have a spike in hangs that is unexplained – bug 722394.

• report – https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/firefox.11.0a2.flashsummary.html.
• We did do a backout on 01/24 to fix bug 716945 but the hang level is higher than we would have expected after that backout. Could have been a problem that was masked until we did that backout.
• Need to investigate what other changes went into 11.

12.0

• Stability on trunk before merge was pretty good.

• We’ll do an inventory of the crashes once users update and see what we need to track for 12.
• bug 722625 Startup crash in `anonymous namespace’::TelemetrySessionData::LoadFromDisk @ memcpy | Pickle::ReadUInt32

Mobile

• top crash list – http://bit.ly/tr4pBc

• fixed
  • bug 719872 – was fixed this morning so we could start to see these trail off starting tomorrow.

  • bug 720092 – fixed this morning.
• Having trouble making progress on some of the other top crashes – lack of STR.
• new reports
  • https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/chofmann/20120130/mobile-central-crash-trend.csv

  • https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/chofmann/20120130/mobile-aurora-crash-trend.csv
  • https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/chofmann/20120130/mobile-beta-crash-trend.csv
  • crash reports per build id – use advanced search tab.

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Platform/2012-01-24

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• Dial-in: conference# 95312
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  • US toll free: +1 800 707 2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312
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Contents 1 Notices / Schedule 2 Firefox Development 3 Firefox Developer Tools 4 Performance 5 GFX 6 JS 7 Layout 8 Video 9 DOM 10 WebAPI 11 Identity 12 Network 13 Plugins 14 Mobile 15 Accessibility 16 Tree Management 17 Security 17.1 Security Review Needed but Unscheduled 17.2 Security Reviews Scheduled for this week 18 Stability Report 18.1 Socorro 18.2 Desktop 18.2.1 Trunk 18.2.2 Aurora 18.2.3 Beta 18.2.4 9.0.1 18.3 Mobile 19 Roundtable

Notices / Schedule

• Go to build for our final betas of FF3.6.26/10 was 2012-01-23
  • A decision about whether or not to ship add-ons compatible by default in FF10 (and with what prefs set) will be made during today’s channel meeting 2012-01-24
• Final sign-off for FF10 will be 2012-01-25
• Next source migration is 2012-01-31

Firefox Development

- bug 566489: inline autocomplete has landed thanks to efforts from David Dahl and Marco Bonardo. Marco has been fixing followups in an attempt to polish the feature for release, but we may end up disabling it on Aurora to get some extra bake time.

Firefox Developer Tools

Performance

• Snappy (last week’s summary)
  • Smooth scrolling has landed on M-C (bug 198964)

  • Early preview of about:jank add-on
    • still buggy and requires recent Nightly
  • Networking team investigating slowdowns caused by cache. Also investigating locks being held on main thread by cache

GFX

JS

• Landed bug 675078 – removing JSThread and JSThreadData. This removes multithreading support from SpiderMonkey (except for web workers, of course).

Layout

• Notable Patches:
  • bug 698335 – Security Issue with bidi text

  • bug 536557 – Implement CSS3 text-align-last
  • bug 718513 – Synthetic bold does not work with src:local(…) @font-face declarations under DirectWrite
  • bug 716229 – Plain text in WWW pages now appears to be double-spaced
  • bug 708075 – the shaped-word caches should be flushed on memory-pressure notification
  • bug 675015 – Suppress synthetic mouse events due to scrolling until the scroll is complete
  • bug 524925 – Avoid reflows for transform changes
  • bug 665597 – Include margin calculations in FinishAndStoreOverflow
  • bug 627628 – be smarter about dispatching starved paints
  • bug 675015 – Suppress synthetic mouse events due to scrolling until the scroll is complete
• Priorities:
  • Mobile Text

  • CSS flexbox
  • bug 689623 API for visible images
  • CSS Quarterly Meeting

Video

(someone please read)

• Published demo build and demos of MediaStreams Processing API. Working to get this landed on trunk in pieces, starting with base MediaStreams infrastructure.

• requestFullScreenWithKeys API under construction. See bug for proposed behavior. Need security feedback/review.(bug 716107)
• Just need build system review to land new libcubeb audio backend for Windows. (bug 623444)

DOM

(no verbal update)

• DOM bindings work week is this week.

WebAPI

• Mozilla has joined the W3C DAP working group. (Jonas and Mounir has joined. Anyone else that’s interested should contact David Baron).

• Network API landed for android! (Provides information about connectivity speed)
• Experimental WebSMS landed for android.

Identity

Network

• An IETF HTTP working group member posted a proposal to change their charter to take on HTTP/2.0 (and, likely, SPDY).

• We’re on track to enable SPDY by default, at least for a week, when Firefox 13 development starts.

Plugins

• Bug 90268, content ownership of plugins, is on track to land as soon as Firefox 13 development opens. Last known problem (“the Pandora problem”) was fixed yesterday.

Mobile

Accessibility

Tree Management

• Hitting record high levels of test load!
  • 27,189 test jobs yesterday

  • 31,705 test jobs on jan 11
  • Doing ~110 hours of compute time per push [1]

Security

Security Review Needed but Unscheduled

Schedule with Curtis

• Features Needing review

• Bugs Marked for Review

If you believe your feature is on this list incorrectly or information has changed since the item was marked for review; please contact Curtis

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Wed Jan 25 / 13:00 PST	Scheduling: more info soon
THU Jan 26 / 10:00 PST	AVAILABLE
Fri Jan 27 / 10:00 AM PST	AVAILABLE

Calendar and Meeting details

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

Stability Report

Socorro

• No data appearing for yesterday (https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/daily?p=FennecAndroid&v[]=) – Socorro working on the issue.
  • Main board failed on the server that triggers cron jobs bug 711192 and they didn’t get run, now backfilled.
• Next release scheduled for Monday

Desktop

• Top crash bugs – http://bit.ly/vO7SxB

• Reproducible top crashes that haven’t been looked at
  • bug 560549 – plugin crash

Trunk

• bug 720407 Firefox 12.0a1 Crash [@ NtUserWindowFromPoint ]

• bug 720679 Crash @ mozilla::dom::workers::WorkerPrivate::CancelAllTimeouts while closing Firefox
• bug 720676 64-bit crash @ powf
• bug 720234 Crash @ js_InternalInterpret
• bug 720232 Crash @ js::detail::HashTable – possible dupe of bug 720086
• bug 720086 64-bit crash [@ Atomize]

Aurora

Beta

• bug 720410 Low volume Mac crash but new to Beta.

• bug 718724 Firefox Crash [@ nsHTMLReflowState::Init(nsPresContext*, int, int, nsMargin const*, nsMargin const*) ]
• bug 718389 – startup crash that spiked in b5.

9.0.1

• https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/2012-01-23/2012-01-23.firefox.9.explosiveness.html has been pretty active. We are investigating these issues.
  • Comcast ID vault crash seems to be back on 9.0.1. Have sent mail to developers regarding this – bug 684748

  • bug 597260 Spike on 9.0.1 but also across other branches.
  • bug 720754 Flash spike on 9.0.1
• bug 704125 Banco do Brazil issue that we are making traction on. Large Brazilian bank

Mobile

• Top crashes
  • http://bit.ly/tr4pBc – quite a few with fixes in progress

  • Working to make these actionable. Many issues are due to issue getting proper Java signatures.
• Java signature fixes
  • bug 719373 is the meta bug that covers java crashes.

  • The Java in a different field is being handled by lars and cpeterson bug 701002 and bug 701390
  • Socorro work is targeted for Monday release.
• Logged Java signature bugs
  • In the interim – Naoki sifted through the crash reports from the data gathered from bug 718907 and figured out the Java crash list.

  • The Java crash list covers more than just TouchBadMemory (12.43% ) of the crashes, It covers : mozalloc_abort | __swrite | dexDataMapAlloc, EMPTY: no crashing thread identified; corrupt dump, mozalloc_abort | dexDataMapAlloc, and a few others
  • bug 707683
  • bug 720515
  • bug 720613
  • bug 711988
• Other
  • There are a number of arm_neon_fills bug 711852. We thought it would be fixed with the rotation fix, but it appears that it is a bit more than that.

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Platform/2012-01-17

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays – 11:00 am Pacific

• Warp Core Vidyo Room
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Contents 1 Notices / Schedule 2 Firefox Development 3 Firefox Developer Tools 4 Performance 5 GFX 6 JS 7 Layout 8 Video 9 DOM 10 WebAPI 11 Network 12 Plugins 13 Mobile 14 Accessibility 15 Tree Management 16 Security 16.1 Security Review Needed but Unscheduled 16.2 Security Reviews Scheduled for this week 17 Stability Report 17.1 Socorro 17.2 Desktop 17.2.1 Trunk 17.2.2 Aurora 17.2.3 Beta 4 17.3 Mobile 18 Roundtable

Notices / Schedule

• Our build of Firefox 10 beta 5 will be cut this evening (2012-01-17)

• Our informal Firefox 9 post-mortem is tomorrow (2012-01-18) at 10AM PT in Warp Core
• We’ll be pushing out a FF3.6.25->FF9.0.1 advertised update tomorrow (2012-01-18) afternoon
• Add-on hotfix testing with our beta population coming this week (hopefully 2012-01-18 if QA verification works out)
• Code freeze for FF3.6.26/10 is this Friday, 2012-01-20
• Go to build for FF3.6.26/10 release candidate will be 2012-01-23
  • A decision about whether or not to ship add-ons compatible by default in FF10 (and with what prefs set) will be made this same day
• Final sign-off for FF10 will be 2012-01-25
• Next source migration is 2012-01-31

Firefox Development

• Matthew Noorenberghe landed the first revision of a Firefox profile migrator. This is a first step towards implementing a “profile cleaning” feature (bug 273874)

Firefox Developer Tools

• New Command Line was turned on in the web console.

• We’ve gathered feedback and will be turning it back off for now.
• paul, robcee and shorlander did some UI planning last week. Slides

Performance

GFX

• Quartz backend for the new 2D API (Azure) landed, on by default, for canvas.
  • Tracked in bug 692879.

  • OS X only, canvas only (for now).
  • Please test canvas demos, etc!
    • When testing, you can disable this implementation by toggling the pref gfx.canvas.azure.enabled to ensure it’s actually a regression.

JS

Layout

Video

DOM

WebAPI

• WebSMS nearly ready, might even land today (Fennec and linux).

Network

• We need a test server for SPDY, we’ve decided to go with node-spdy. We’re planning to require a local installation of node 0.7 or higher in order to test SPDY. We’ll be requesting that node be deployed to our testing infrastructure for this.
  • https://github.com/indutny/node-spdy
• Once SPDY testing is possible we’ll be requesting that SPDY be turned on by default on mozilla-central, at least for a week. This should happen soon after the start of Firefox 13 development.

Plugins

Mobile

Accessibility

• Work progressing on mobile and OSX a11y.
  • Team will follow up with a post to dev-platform or dev-planning regarding when and how to ship FF on OSX with a11y built in.

Tree Management

• 10.5 leak builds happening for try on 10.6 machines
  • see dev.planning post for more details
• can we disable Mobile Desktop builds for m-c, project branches and aurora?

Security

Security Review Needed but Unscheduled

Schedule with Curtis

• Features Needing review

• Bugs Marked for Review

If you believe your feature is on this list incorrectly or information has changed since the item was marked for review; please contact Curtis

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Wed Jan 18 / 13:00 PST	AVAILABLE
THU Jan 19 / 10:00 PST	AVAILABLE
Fri Jan 20/ 10:00 AM PST	AVAILABLE

Calendar and Meeting details

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

Stability Report

Socorro

• Release on Friday – switch all timezones to UTC. Some dip in stats Friday but all looks normal now.

Desktop

• Top crashes – http://bit.ly/vO7SxB.

• Startup crashes
  • https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/firefox.beta.10.0.startupsummary.html

  • https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/firefox.release.9.0.startupsummary.html
  • https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/2012-01-12/2012-01-12.firefox.beta.10.0.startup.html

Trunk

• bug 716289 Was the top crash but now should be fixed.

• bug 717171 Crash @ js::ContextStack::currentScript. Currently #3 overall crash on trunk
• bug 718284 Cycle collector crash when using the default Wikipedia(en) search plugin with HTTPS-Everywhere

Aurora

• bug 718575Startup crash in pref_savePref @ mozalloc_abort(char const* const) | mozalloc_handle_oom() | ToNewCString(nsACString_internal const&)

Beta 4

• bug 718389 Startup crash @ PR_EnumerateAddrInfo | nsDNSRecord::GetNextAddr.

• bug 718724 Firefox Crash [@ nsHTMLReflowState::Init(nsPresContext*, int, int, nsMargin const*, nsMargin const*) ]

Mobile

• Top crashes – http://bit.ly/tr4pBc

• Device report – https://crash-analysis.mozilla.com/rkaiser/2012-01-12/2012-01-12.fennecandroid.nightly.devices.html
• empty signature crash – fixed on Friday so not there in 3 day view – https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/FennecAndroid/12.0a1/3/all but we have another issue where we are getting an error “EMPTY: java stack not in expected format”. There are a number of bugs logged to track this issue.
  • bug 701002

  • bug 701390
  • bug 698585
  • bug 681934
• top 2 crashes
  • bug 705999

  • bug 713569

Roundtable

• (bsmedberg) – bug 712032 is a rather new orange which appears to be related to cache incorrectness; it doesn’t have an owner but I don’t think we should ship a release with it.

Platform/2012-01-10

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays – 11:00 am Pacific

• Warp Core Vidyo Room
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Contents 1 SUMO: Search Hi-Jacking 2 Notices / Schedule 3 Firefox Development 4 Firefox Developer Tools 5 Performance 6 GFX 7 JS 8 Layout 9 Video 10 DOM 11 WebAPI 12 Network 13 Plugins 14 Mobile 15 Accessibility 16 Tree Management 17 Security 17.1 Security Review Needed but Unscheduled 17.2 Security Reviews Scheduled for this week 18 Stability Report 18.1 Socorro 18.2 Desktop 18.2.1 10.0b3 18.2.2 11.0a2 18.2.3 12.0a1 18.3 Mobile 19 Roundtable

SUMO: Search Hi-Jacking

• Issue: search hijacking in the address bar (typing something in the address bar doesn’t take you to google)
  • Severity: 1500 per week (maybe 10% of support requests).

  • Possible fixes:
    • Make keyword.URL harder

    • Detect redirects
    • Find responsible extensions and blocklist based on “no surprises”
• Cheng will work with a team (Gavin + Sheila) to investigate/fix the issues

Notices / Schedule

• Firefox 10 beta 3 went out to the beta channel last Friday

• We’ll be tagging Firefox 10 beta 4 later today (1/10)
  • Pushing hard to get the add-on hotfix into this beta for full end-to-end testing with our beta audience

• FF10 was (officially) announced as our first ESR today

• Our next checkpoint for unthrottling FF9.0.1 for desktop users is at today’s channel meeting (2:00PM PT in Warp Core)

• An informal post-mortem of FF9.0.1 will be held some time next week – we’ll be mostly focused on short-term changes to be made for FF10′s release (value of unthrottling, etc.)

• Code freeze for FF10 is 2012-01-20

• Go to build for FF10 release candidate will be 2012-01-23
  • A decision about whether or not to ship add-ons compatible by default (and with what prefs set) will be made this same day
• Final sign-off for FF10 will be 2012-01-25
• Next source migration is 2012-01-31

Firefox Development

• Windows update service landed last week (bug 481815)
  • UAC dialog no more!

  • Biggest step towards silent updates
• Asa and Chris Lee worked with engineering leads in the past few weeks to firm up our Firefox team priorities for 2012
  • you’ll be hearing about that more in the coming weeks!

Firefox Developer Tools

Performance

GFX

• The Azure-Thebes wrapper has landed in mozilla-central, preffed off.
  • This is the work required to get us using the new 2D API developed as part of the Azure project without changing our Thebes-using code.

  • This will get us more performance and flexibility in the long run.
  • Right now, it’s only on Windows Vista and 7, though that is going to change over the next few weeks.
  • We need testers!
    • If you’re using Windows Vista or 7 with hardware acceleration, create and set the boolean pref gfx.content.azure.enabled to true, and start reporting bugs!

JS

Layout

• Patches Landed:
  • Bug 714519 Weaken the quirks mode inline box model zeroing-of-containers when those containers have children that are vertical-align

  • Bug 708036 Fix font size inflation in XUL
  • Bug 695222 – Implement column-fill part of CSS3 multicol spec
  • Bug 707855 – Clamp container size to device width to make font inflation less likely to cause problems on small screens.
  • Bug 696585 – support pref(…) annotations in reftest manifest.
  • Bug 711079 – move OTS from libxul to gkmedias.dll on Windows.
  • Bug 668163 – Map ‘width’ and ‘height’ on <svg> into style to stop <svg>’s computed width/height fallback
  • Bug 652550 – Give the text in prompts unicode-bidi: isolate. Bug 652550
• Standards/Spec Work:
  • CSS3 Images (LC)

  • CSS3 Text & Writing Modes (WD)
  • Backgrounds & Borders (CR)
  • Values & Units (WD)

Video

• Nothing to report

DOM

• Lots of work going on to make our cycle collector pauses shorter (smaug, mccr8, bug 698919, bug 716598, etc.)

WebAPI

• Telephony has landed with basic capabilities. Doesn’t support multiple calls at the same time.

• Started work on Screen orientation API.
• Network information API ready to land but has dependencies.
• Some progress on backend parts of camera.

Network

Plugins

Mobile

• using tracking-fennec=11+ to track bugs now, please request it

Accessibility

Tree Management

Security

Security Review Needed but Unscheduled

• Review Needed

• There are several things that are marked as needing a review

Security Reviews Scheduled for this week

Date / Time	Item
Mon Jan 09 / 13:00 PST	Background Updates
Wed Jan 11 / 13:00 PST	AVAILABLE SLOT
THU Jan 12 / 10:00 PST	XHR NonPost (2nd review) / bug 598304 and bug 714302
Fri Jan 13/ 10:00 AM PST	AVAILABLE SLOT

Calendar and Meeting details

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

Stability Report

Socorro

• Release to be deployed on Friday to sync all timezones to UTC

• There will probably be 2h of down time on Friday am.
• Shouldn’t see any problems but MAY have a gap in reports that day – affect the crash numbers.

Desktop

• Top crash list – http://bit.ly/vO7SxB

10.0b3

• bug 714320 – still no sign of signature on b3. Likely backout of bug 697215

• bug 683967 – current top crash – fixed but didn’t make it in b3.
• bug 711564 – mentioned last week on the top crash list. Mac only but pretty high on b3. Currently working on a fix.
• bug 716391 – new signature on 12/14 – startup crash. Was at #64 on b2 but #13 on b3. Should it be tagged top crash? Who can we assign it to?
• bug 715916 – new graphics issue in betas.
• bug 716939 – [@ je_free | nsZipReaderCache::`vector deleting destructor(unsigned int) ] startup crash that needs some correlations.
• bug 716945 – Still seeing that reduction in Flash crashes we noticed at the end of Oct.

11.0a2

• bug 712277 – Crash in nsCacheEntryDescriptor::nsCompressOutputStreamWrapper::Close @ MOZ_Z_adler32 – #9 overall crash

• bug 713140 Browser Crash [@ nsDownloadManager::RemoveDownloadsForURI(nsIURI*) ] – #2 overall crash

12.0a1

• bug 716289 – crash in nsCacheService::SearchCacheDevices

Mobile

• Top crash list – http://bit.ly/tr4pBc

• Naoki’s weekly report – https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/crash_rep_09Jan2012#Reports.
• bug 711973 – Additions to the skip list to help us get to better stacks.
• https://crash-stats.mozilla.com/topcrasher/byversion/FennecAndroid/12.0a1/7 – “empty signature” appearing at the top of the list.

Roundtable

• Goals
  • Q4 should be updated now

  • Q1 should be draft by end of tomorrow

Platform/2012-01-03

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Platform Meeting Details

• Tuesdays – 11:00 am Pacific

• Warp Core Vidyo Room
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 95312 (US/INTL)
• 1-800-707-2533 (pin 369) Conf# 95312 (US)
• join irc.mozilla.org #planning for back channel

Contents 1 Notices / Schedule 2 Firefox Development 3 Firefox Developer Tools 4 Performance 5 GFX 6 JS 7 Layout 8 Video 9 DOM 10 WebAPI 11 Network 12 Plugins 13 Mobile 14 Accessibility 15 Tree Management 16 Security 17 Stability Report 17.1 Socorro 17.2 Desktop 17.3 Mobile 18 Roundtable

Notices / Schedule

• Firefox 10 beta 2 went out to the beta channel last Friday
  • Thanks to QA and RelEng to sliding it in there between holidays. Awesome work!

• We’re still tracking issues for a possible 9.0.2
  • You can see them @ https://wiki.mozilla.org/Releases/Firefox_9/RRRT

  • Note we are doing a staggered / slow rollout
    • We were manual-update only initially. This is why < 3 million people got 9.0 instead of 9.0.1

    • We unthrottled automatic updates for the past week (only offering to 10% of Fx checking for updates)
    • Now that we are at ~15 million 9.0.1 users we have turned off automatic updates again for a bit to look at data
    • If you see any news articles about slow Firefox 9 uptake, please email press or release-drivers so we can let the author know what is really going on
    • Probably going to do something similar for releases in the future as well, more details will be sent to release-drivers
• We aren’t in the Amazon Appstore anymore, and we missed the holiday season for the Kindle Fire (boo). Details are in bug 713777

• Next source migration is 2012-01-31

Firefox Development

• No update this week, but check it out:
  • Firefox Nightly tumblr

  • @FirefoxNightly twitter
  • (thank you to Jean-Yves Perrier and Paul Rouget)

Firefox Developer Tools

Performance

GFX

JS

Layout

Video

DOM

WebAPI

Network

Plugins

Mobile

Accessibility

Tree Management

• FYI: infra load for april-december 2011: http://oduinn.com/blog/2012/01/03/infrastructure-load-for-april-december-2011
  • peak of 184 checkins per day!

Security

• none scheduled this week (yet)

• please check the radar for review needed (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Radar#Review_Needed) and take advantage of our availability!

Stability Report

Socorro

• 2.4 going out next week.

• bug 537003 – Fix all timestamps to be timezone aware.

Desktop

• Trunk
  • bug 637596 – top crash on trunk over the past 3 days. Not a new one.

  • bug 611810 – several bugs with this signature. Not a new crash either but high in volume on trunk ie: 174 on 12.0a1 and 8 on 9.0.1. Startup crash.
  • bug 713140 – New regression found 12/22.
  • bug 703133 – New regression appeared in 11. Reproducible – still not fixed.
  • bug 712277 – New regression logged 12/20.

• Aurora

• Beta
  • bug 714320 – explosive crash on b2. Needs to be assigned. Over 11K crashes in the past week.

Mobile

• Last crash report for Fennec – https://wiki.mozilla.org/QA/Fennec/crash_rep_26Dec2011.

Roundtable