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These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 12

Highlights

Friends of the Firefox team

Project Updates

Add-ons

Activity Stream

Electrolysis (e10s)

Firefox Core Engineering

  • Flash
    • Running a telemetry experiment this month on 55 (nightly) to see how the Flash-as-click-to-play-by-default behaves, in advance of a 53 release Shield study
  • Crash pings on Nightly 55 and Aurora 54:
    • …are being sent by pingSender;
    • …have content crash pings;
    • …have raw stacks in those crash pings.
    • Building the ability to gather info from that data starts this week.
    • Reminder that FPO is off as of 53.
  • Main shutdown pings are going to be sent via pingSender in 55
  • Beginning work on Update Agent, which will continue downloading an update if the user’s session has ended
  • Updater
    • Simplification of Updater UI aimed at 55
    • Changes for MAR signing are unblocked (compression (LZMA) and cert (SHA-384)), aiming for land by the end of Q1.

Form Autofill

Mobile

  • Shipped Firefox Focus 3.1 with support for 20 new locales!
  • Extended the beta period for Firefox for iOS 7.0 as well as a new beta build for user testing

Platform UI and other Platform Audibles

Privacy/Security

  • Polish work for permission notifications + insecure password warning (live in 52 ?)
  • johannh is working on getting right click + autocomplete/insecure password warning behavior to work correctly for password and username fields
  • nhnt11 is working on a few polish bugs for permissions notifications
  • paolo is fixing regressions (and importantly, bug 1345449 – doorhanger won’t stay open when the browser window is minimized)

Quality of Experience

  • Will soon be handing off most of the Theme API work to the WebExtensions team to allow transitioning to the Photon work.
  • Preferences work is moving along, the patches are looking good and we are going through review cycles now.
  • Continuing to work on performance of importing data from other browsers.
    • Currently looking at a 10 times runtime improvement for bookmark import \o/ ???
    • History import improvements have landed on 54 and uplifted to 53.

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Sync / Firefox Accounts

  • The Mobile Bookmarks folder is now visible in the Bookmarks menu bar and toolbar after a successful Sync! This is the result of work done by the Sync and SUMO teams to help make Firefox Sync easier to use.

Test Pilot

  • Page Shot in 54 is on track.
  • Experiments updating this week:
    • Snoozetabs (adding localization and bug fixes)
    • Min Vid (adding better metrics and bug fixes).  History/Upcoming queues coming soon
    • Cliqz v2 (new UI) coming soon

Here are the raw meeting notes that were used to derive this list.

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One comment on “These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 12”

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  1. klop*cz wrote on

    Thank you for update.
    This issue was highly interesting for me. Quantum Flow seems to be more promising then other parts of Quantum, because it addresses real met issues despite of other Quantum’s parts are important too. Please keep adding of information about Quantum Flow. Thank you again.

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