[IMPORTANT] Submit your PI Requests for Firefox 75 QA feature testing by Feb 14

Similar to what QA did for previous Firefox feature testing prioritization , we would like to do the same for Fx75. In order to help with the process, please *submit your PI-Request

Intent to prototype and ship: lazy load images

In Firefox 75, I intend to turn lazy load images on by default. Summary: lazy load images improves initial page load performance by deferring loading images which are out of viewport, it also reduces network traffic. Bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542784 Standard:

Re: Intent to Deploy: ThreadSanitizer

On 04/02/2020 09:41, Christian Holler wrote: One of the problems with deploying ThreadSanitizer in CI is that we have a fair amount of existing data races that orange pretty much every test we have. In order to solve this situation, we are currently working on the following strategy: 1.

Re: Improvements to Web IDL exception message strings

On 2/8/20 2:31 PM, Domenic Denicola wrote: Would you consider using something that avoids the confusion with static methods/properties? E.g. - InterfaceName's methodName() - InterfaceName's attrName getter - InterfaceName's attrName setter We could think about doing that, yes. If we do, we

[desktop] Bugs logged by Desktop Release QA in the last 7 days

Hello, Here's the list of new issues found and filed by the Desktop Release QA team in the last 7 days. Additional details on the team's priorities last week, as well as the plans for the current week are available at: https://tinyurl.com/wjbzdf2. Bugs logged by Desktop Release QA in the last

Improvements to Web IDL exception message strings

Hello all, We just made some changes to how exception strings from ErrorResult get formatted [1]. The changes apply to both the Throw* DOMException methods and ThrowTypeError/ThrowRangeError. In the new setup, exception messages have "%s: " prepended to them, where %s is replaced with one

what if to not to give firefox sys_admin capability with apparmor?

i have enabled firefox apparmor profile in linux mint, and one of log messages about denied requests is sys_admin capability. firefox works normally at its surface behavior, for me. how much bad things may happen because it has not this capability? i have found some information:

Re: IPCError-browser | ShutDownKill signatures are about to change

Hi! I landed and deployed the change today. Previously, we'd get signatures like this: IPCError-browser | ShutDownKill Now that text gets prepended to whatever the signature was. After deploying the change, I went and reprocessed the last week of signatures. You can see the differences here:

Re: Intent to Deploy: ThreadSanitizer

Very excited to see TSan going live. Thanks for pushing it forward! On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 6:12 AM Christian Holler wrote: > Data races in C/C++ code are a class of bugs that can severely impact > stability of the product while being hard to reproduce and debug. > Furthermore, data races are

Re: Improvements to Web IDL exception message strings

On Friday, February 7, 2020 at 8:55:45 AM UTC-5, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > Hello all, > > We just made some changes to how exception strings from ErrorResult get > formatted [1]. The changes apply to both the Throw* DOMException > methods and ThrowTypeError/ThrowRangeError. > > In the new setup,

Intent to unship: system SQLite support on Linux (--enable-system-sqlite)

The Storage support team intends to remove support for building Mozilla-based applications using the system provided SQLite library on Linux (--enable-system-sqlite). When: After the next mozilla-central merge to Nightly 75, February 10th. We plan to unship support during the 75 cycle.

Re: Some changes to how errors are thrown from Web IDL methods

On Thu, Feb 6, 2020 at 9:12 AM Boris Zbarsky wrote: > 3) While ErrorResult::Throw taking just an nsresult still exists, it is > deprecated and new code should not be adding new calls to it if that can > be avoided. > We are attempting to add a static analysis that blocks new uses of