Platform/2010-09-21

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Notices / Schedule

Firefox 3.6.10 and Firefox 3.5.13

• Went out last Wednesday
• Looks to have fixed the startup crash (bug 594699, graph)
• Thanks to mrbkap for jumping on the issue quickly

Firefox 3.6.11 and Firefox 3.5.14

• Schedules are posted
  • Let me know if anyone sees any issues, happy to change the schedule for good reasons
• Code freeze is a week from today (Tuesday 2010-09-28 @ 11:59 pm PDT)
  • Nag emails will start shortly
• Final ship is scheduled for Thursday, 2010-10-14
• Still working through all approval and blocking requests

Blocker Report

Firefox 4 Beta

• a handy list of triage queries is available for all!
  • Beta 7: 51 blockers
  • Beta: 410 blockers
  • Final: 348 blockers
    • TOTAL: 758 blockers
  • nominations: 281 nominations

Firefox 3.6.11

• 25 open blockers

Firefox 3.5.14

• 24 open blockers

Firefox Development

(from our goals):

• [ON TRACK] Feature complete Firefox 4
  • [DONE] Switch to Tab
  • [DONE] App Tabs - Scope for 4.0 reduced (non-global), near feature complete.
  • [DONE] Extension Manager - Bug list is converging, still a lot of work to do.
  • [DONE] Web Console
  • [ON TRACK] Notification UI - Geo and EM notifications done, http auth next.
  • [ON TRACK] New Theme - Windows and Mac good, Linux catching up now
  • [DONE] TabCandy Panorama
  • [AT RISK] Silent updates on Windows
  • [DROPPED] Inspector
  • [DROPPED] Account Manager - WIP patches posted, but we can't contain the review load and code risk.

• [AT RISK] Dirty profile startup within 20% of clean profile startup (modulo extensions, plugins; on windows)
  • Current status: Lots of data has been collected and analyzed, but no solid conclusions have shaken out.
  • Details page
  • Shawn has an updated blog post. Read it for more info.
  • Bugs on file that help:
    • Excessive cookie i/o bug bug 572223 (fixed)
    • Session Restore negatively impacts startup time based on the number of tabs loaded bug 582005
    • Suboptimal SQLite page size bug 416330 (fixed)
    • Provide a global VACUUM component bug 541373

Platform

(there is a team-by-team goals breakdown, as well)

• [DONE] Javascript performance near or even with Chrome 5 on their benchmarks (within 20% on SS, 30% on V8), with substantial wins on our benchmarks. (Windows, in-browser.)
• [DONE] Hardware acceleration of video and other HTML and SVG content, as well as user interface, on by default for compatible hardware on all Tier-1 desktop and mobile platforms.
• [DONE] Fully support the WebGL 1.0 spec, with support turned on by default in a Firefox 4 beta on platforms that support OpenGL or OpenGL ES.
• [MISSED] security: zero reproducible high/crit > 30 days
• [DONE] Support multi-process Fennec.
• [DONE] Support Jetpacks running in separate processes and never blocking the Fennec UI. NOTE: jetpack team hasn't actually integrated this code yet, but it works in small test environments.

GFX

• Only one bug - bug 596784 - blocks us from turning on OpenGL accelerated compositing on Mac.
  • OpenGL compositing on mac is ready for general testing, as long as you don't mind slow scrolling; set the pref layers.accelerate-all to true and restart.

Content

• Dynamically sizing disk cache landed (byronm, jduell)
• Virtual properties work moving along well after JM merge (peterv)
• Zimbra perf regression due to d2d (bug on file, investigating...)