Highlights
- The async and await operators have landed in Nightly 52, and are scheduled to ride the trains! Here’s a blog post about it.
- jryans added a Network Throttling tool to Responsive Design Mode
- andym reports that baku has extended the Tabs and Cookies WebExtension APIs to work with Tab Containers
- Only works when privacy.userContext.enabled is set to true
- Documentation still forthcoming
- The Add-ons Team is running an experiment in Firefox 51 Beta that will enable e10s for users that have any add-on that has not explicitly opted out of e10s
- This is the vast majority of add-ons, which means they’re going to be shimmed
- As usual, will be measuring responsiveness, crash rates, to determine if we’re in a state where we could possibly ship this to release
- If and when we start rolling out in this state, we’re going to do it nice and slow
- Additional details
- The Quantum Compositor process has been enabled on Nightly for Windows
- florian wants folks to know that the screen sharing whitelist has been removed in Firefox 52. Users can now authorize screen sharing for any website from a revamped permission prompt that displays a preview of the shared contents and warns loudly in the more risky cases
- kitcambridge reports that Send tab to device is riding trains now (previously was Nightly-only)
Contributor(s) of the Week
- André Bargull
- Stefan (:stefanh)
- Tomislav Jovanovic (:zombie)
- New Contributors
- Katharina (:Kaffeekaethe) heroically fixed one of our intermittently failing tests for the AwesomeBar, and then made Ctrl-K focus the AwesomeBar if the Search Bar has been removed from the toolbar and panel!
- Sourav Garg (:jordan) helped us enable linting in more directories!
Project Updates
Content Handling
- rexlee reports two improvements currently underway for the Downloads Panel:
Electrolysis (e10s)
- More patches have landed which should, in theory, help with tab spinners. At the very least, they remove synchronous messages, which is good for performance in general
- A new Telemetry probe has landed to measure how long it takes to paint an entire tab from the perspective of the content process
Firefox Core Engineering
- ddurst reports that we are going to begin prompting users of FF45 to upgrade. Two weeks after 50 is released, we will do the same with FF46
- Currently, our “orphans” (> 3 versions back) account for 4.9% of our release audience
- A dashboard has been constructed to measure crash rates using Telemetry
Form Auto-fill
- Profile Storage has landed
- Still in progress:
Platform UI and Other Platform Audibles
- lsalzman has been making some perf improvements to box-shadow
- <select> improvements by MSU students are starting to land
- beachjar landed popup centering for macosx-e10s, but has since been backed out
- Mark has more styling improvements in the pipe
- Fred_ and miguel have a patch to combine the e10s and non-e10s <select> mechanisms, and it’s in the final rounds of review
- tmaklebust and beachjar have a patch being reviewed that adds a feature for filtering lists with more than 40 elements
- beachjar is starting to look at converging with Edge / Chrome behaviour on <option> styling within the e10s popup
- mconley is still working on making it possible to style “checkbox” and “radio” input fields. This landed and bounced, and will hopefully re-land (and uplift) soon
- daleharvey has started looking at adding probes to see the ways that people tend to abort page loads
- chunmin’s patch for providing a UI for device selection on Firefox for the Presentation API is in the final rounds of review
- scottwu has been working on improving the styling of the <input type=”time”> picker panel
- mconley has enabled the Unsubmitted Crash Reports notification for users on early beta or earlier for Firefox 51+.
- mconley landed a patch that exposes the preference to automatically submit backlogged crash reports to about:tabcrashed
- jessica fixed a bug where the input field for <input type=”time”> was being cleared unexpectedly when using the up and down cursors
- mconley fixed a bug where the autocomplete popup was having its entries truncated too much
- The Rust-based URL parser will be landing soon
Privacy / Security
- Insecure login field contextual warning has landed, but is currently preffed off behind security.insecure_field_warning.contextual.enabled
- seanlee is working on showing the login autocomplete UI on password fields
- daleharvey is working on showing the login autocomplete UI on first focus instead of second focus
- timdream landed a patch to show the contextual warnings UI for all username fields, and not just ones that the user has saved login credentials for
- daleharvey is working on a focus bug for login autocomplete
Quality of Experience
- Enabling automatic profile migration again for beta 51 to test its behaviour
- evanxd is working on making Reader Mode links work with <base href=”…”>
- evanxd also made Reader Mode work on Blogger and Blogspot blogs
Search
- A big number of small patches that optimize our SQLite layer have landed
- Fixed a number of corner-case bugs around search keywords, one-off searches and result selection with Ctrl-Click
Sync / Firefox Accounts
Storage Management
- The V1 UX specs are locked down
- Fischer is working on showing the persist-storage permission request notification
- Fischer also has a patch under review to add the Site Data section to about:preferences
Here are the raw meeting notes that were used to derive this list.
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