2017-08-03

NECKO WEEKLY MEETING NOTES

Thurs August 3rd, 2017

STICKY

  • Triage duty: SC
  • new untriaged bugs: https://tinyurl.com/zhk9yjf
  • NECKO-ACTIVE bugs: https://tinyurl.com/j8pj35u
  • NECKO NEXT bugs: https://tinyurl.com/zjwjfee
  • NECKO-BACKLOG bugs: https://tinyurl.com/hpkcxx3

Round Table:

  • Proposal: once at month (whichever triage cycle includes the 1st of the month), we have two triagers: one regular, and one person goes over the necko-backlog|next|active lists
    • look at active just to make sure they're all assigned

https://css-tricks.com/the-critical-request/

---PROJECT UPDATES--- - rust-url meeting notes: https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozloha-rust-url - rcwn https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/mozaloha-rcwn

Nick

  • NTLM Hell

Honza

Michal

  • 1382831 Race condition in nsHttpChannel::OnCacheEntryCheck when racing cache with network
  • 1369051 Assertion failure: !entry || !entry->IsFresh()
  • 1378327 Crash in mozilla::net::CacheFileChunk::Truncate
  • 1382688 Do not allow to enable old disk cache backend

Patrick

last week: mpendingq, 256fd telemetry, 0.9 telemetry, namespaces, neat tls, alt-svc, immutable bug, some non-necko stuff this week: neat tls, alt-svc, immutable bug, some non-necko stuff. more reviews.

Daniel

  • 3 days QUIC interim in Paris last week (attended from remote)
  • "HTTP Workshop" in London
  • queued up some reviews to deal with
  • 1360164 - The first async XHR done during startup blocks the main thread while initializing nsProtocolProxyService
  • 1364250 - Move JAR channel I/O off of main thread
  • 1366222 - Basic authentication 401 message flood

Valentin

Bug 1381816 - Pref study: Race Cache with Network iteration #2

Bug 1385883 - Cannot delete history with IDN

Bug 1386195 - Cannot delete history with "www." + IDN

Bug 1383831 - require newer version of rust-url

RCWN - telemetry should be available in the next few days, so we can see if it made any improvement

Looked into 1367810 - Crash in mozilla::net::nsHttpChannel::CallOnStartRequest

Dragana

TFO

TFO - some more bugs: broken servers that are not blocking TFO features

NEAT

nspr bug - WSAGetLastError sometimes returns not WSA bug :) (blocks TFO)

Gary

CDP Testing

  • Tracking Protection
    • fixed a WPT's bug
  • Background download
    • permission denied when it tries to save file
  • Multiple tabs
    • on going

Junior

Bug 1373198 - Disable RCWN for tests which require deterministic cache behavior

  • Part 1 - Part 13: r+ Follow-ups

no mListener in nsHttpChannel::OnStartRequest (comment 87, 90, 91)

webRequest failure (comment 88 and Bug 1384803)

Bug 1384493 - dom/base/test/test_link_stylesheet.html fails when we enable rcwn

Bug 1384478 - "Save Video As" not working when we enable rcwn

Bug 1384506 - dom/base/test/test_urgent_start.html fails when we enable rcwn

Bug 1384510 - toolkit/mozapps/extensions/test/xpcshell/test_backgroundupdate.js fails when we enable rcwn

Prepare slides in mozilla developer conference in Taipei "HTTP2 is coming QUICkly"

Amy

Bug 1331680 - Consider not doing sync IPC for document.cookie getter/setter

  • implementations - r+

  • test cases- r+

  • try server - pass Cookie bugs

  • Started to clarify and reproduce some cookie bugs

  • Bug 1366578 - cookies are not transmitted when handling custom protocol

  • Bug 1364466 - Cookie lost with custom container

  • Bug 1338309 - Gmail complains that cookies are disabled in e10s windows

Kershaw

[CDP]

Bug 1366822 - The active tab notification doesn't work when switching among windows

  • r+

Bug 1382274

CDP Test

  • Identify hero element and trackers
  • Writing scripts to analyze data
  • https://goo.gl/yZoZpX

SC

[PBg-Http]

  • telemetry analysis

  • HTML5 parser, image decoder, fetch is fully OMT now

  • JS/CSS/font/XHR are the next thing to OMT

  • performance analysis

    • after M3 landed, 500px/ebay shows 8%~10% improvement on speedIndex

    • manually revert PBg-Http works (disable retargeting in HttpChannelChild/using main thread IPC)

    • talos shows performance regression after PBg-Http is enabled

    • quantum_pageload shows major regression on amazon/google/youtube when PBg is on, especially amazon (40%)

    • gecko profile captured and doing analysis with Taipei performance team now.

    • planning about implementing a kill switch in case we need to disable it on 57.

    • sessionrestore_many_windows also shows 5-8% regression h

    • responsiveness/animation/scroll tests show minor improvement (around 1-2%)

  • fix regressions

    • Bug 1382380, Bug 1369571, Bug 1384294, Bug 1382380 [CDP]

  • Bug 1382567 - boost load priority of preloaded image for without height/width attribute

  • provide WIP for previous the impact of this algorithm