(as I mentioned last week, the Firefox team will be keeping y’all informed of what’s going on with product planning and development)
Week of August 10th:
- started into the triage of bugs nominated to block Firefox 3.6
- worked with the release engineering and development teams to co-ordinate the branching of mozilla-1.9.2 from mozilla-central, and updated the checkin rules for those trees
- gathered more input on the product roadmap from various stakeholders, and a kick in the butt about actually publishing instead of gathering
- worked with Chris Blizzard and others on a project to help users update their plugins
- started talking with John Slater on how we can provide better upgrade and first run experiences to Firefox users
Loose threads:
- file bugs for the upgrade and first run experiences and discuss with Rob Strong (updater) and Mike Morgan (AUS)
- file bugs for the plugin update experience and discuss with Rob Strong (updater) and Mike Morgan (AUS)
Next targets:
- publish draft of Firefox product roadmap before August 21st
- get the nomination list for bugs blocking Firefox 3.6 to 0 before August 21st
I also wanted to mention that the Mozilla Corporation employees who are members of the Firefox development team will be getting together at the new offices in Mountain View, California to collaborate face to face for a week. We’ll do our best to make sure that the meetings and discussions are being broadcast in ways that let you join in, but as always, you can find our backchatter on IRC in #fx-team.
What would be the main goal with 3.6? A bugfix release?
Could you please look into https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=263160 ? This bug makes Firefox on Linux really painful, as it crashes several times a day when using a lot of tabs. It’s still happening in Firefox 3.5.2 and I first noticed it in 3.0.5. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=427024 is similar. In both cases, the issue happens with a large number of tabs open, so producing a small test case is a challenge.
I hope this long-standing crash bug can be fixed in 3.6. I like Firefox a lot but this bug forces me to use Firefox in a Windows VM on Linux…