2017-09-07

NECKO WEEKLY MEETING NOTES

Thurs Sept 7th, 2017

STICKY

  • Triage duty: nwgh
  • 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
  • Triage Notes
    • Android crashes on infra are currently not symbolicated: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389805 (makes triaging/diagnosing android crash bugs hard/impossible)

Round Table:

  • 57 Nightly, Beta milestones https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jeypuqBqEyIh-4qxXT0UnE2aVjetN7uVD8W7L7TbWKg/edit

  • Bug 1397635 needs review and blocks a qf1. would be really nice to have it for 57. Thanks!

  • Bug 910207 - Speculative connections should prevent Client Certificate Selection dialog

  • Can someone help to land this bug? A mandatory photon feature(bug 1348275) depends on this to be in Firefox 57, and better to uplift to 56 as well.

  • Bug 1393540 rel=preload and our speculative load queue

  • (15:48:00) annevk: if y'all have meetings, could you bring up fixing https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363284 as part of some Quantum effort

  • (15:48:28) annevk: we even have Google devrel volunteering to draw up graphics how it makes Firefox faster than Chrome

  • (15:49:05) annevk: https://twitter.com/annevk/status/901493567855710208

Nick

Honza

Michal

b - 1395121 NS_NOTREACHED("mListener is null") in nsHttpChannel::OnStartRequest

  • 1384478 browser/base/content/test/general/browser_save_video.js fails when we enable rcwn
  • 1395403 Receiving large binary websocket messages consumes too much CPU
  • 1394564 Version 55 breaks sending large amounts of data over web sockets.
  • 1392841 Enable RCWN on Nightly

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

  • NEAT project work
  • Bug 1395914 - IPv6 network identification (Linux version reviewed OK, mac version coming)

Valentin

Bug 1369317 - Optimized data URI parsing by ~20% [landed]

Bug 1306646 - Match updated Timing-Allow-Origin definition. [landed]

Bug 919391 - Incorrect Navigation Timing API: performance.timing.responseStart - performance.timing.requestStart <0 [landed]

Bug 1392260 - resource-timing - Fix error in gzip_xml.py [landed]

working on:

threadsafe URIs

other resource-timing bugs

Dragana

TFO

rel=preload and no-cache

JAR

gmail issue - Bug 1389772 (reports in bug 1380896 gmail is slow or stops responding)

Bug 1391543 - Network stops occasionally during "Performing a TLS handshake to..."

Gary

Bug 1373708 - Convert Jar channels to stop using main thread I/O

  • fixing tests, some patches are submitted.

Junior

Bug 870460 - Lazy load of cookie service blocks main thread while cookie database loads

  • r? intend to implement: remove legacy upgrade: cookie.txt, DELETE null base basedomain

Amy

Bug 1376009 - Crash in mozalloc_abort | NS_DebugBreak | mozilla::ipc::LogicError | mozilla::net::PCookieServiceChild::SendGetCookieString

  • uplift to beta Bug 1360603 - Mark Save as... channels used for download as throttleable

  • f+

  • Have to ask dom peer to review this patch Bug 1386746 - HTTP response throttling: experiment with limiting the amount of data we read during the short don't-block-read period

  • Started to work on this bug.

Kershaw

Bug 1377208 - Move background transactions over h2 to the background group

  • landed

Bug 1395472 - Kill switch for moving background transactions over h2 to the background group

  • landed

Bug 1247843 - All s are downloaded during the critical path

  • WIP
  • Fix test failures

SC

[PBg-Http]

  • performance analysis
  • First Paint time for visible elements in HTML document is improved because HTML parser will start to create DOM element earlier. The difference can be observed from TALOS tp6 amazon/youtube. The average first paint time is improved around 50ms.
  • However for facebook no improvement is observed because there is no visible element in the HTML document. In the HTML document there is only for loading CSS/JS scripts and executing