Meeting 2024-02-20

• Team calendar

  • Next on Necko triage: Valentin

  • Bug bash day Friday Feb 23

  • IETF 16-22 March in Brisbane

• Round Table

  • (jesup)https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/new-google-chrome-feature-blocks-attacks-against-home-networks/ 

    • Bug 354493

    • With Google(Shipping 123) doing it we can follow, add to future watch list, maybe 2025

    • Indicated we’d probably look at it in 2024 in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481298#c6

    • https://chromestatus.com/feature/4869685172764672

    • Design document

    • See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481298

  • (greg) Bug 1880173 - Networking: Domain Lists have moved to graveyard

  • (greg) Bug 1880165 - Move Proxy bugs into new Core :: Networking: Proxy component

    • In progress

  • (acreskey) non-comprehensive list of FOSDEM 2024 web perf talks of interest

    • The importance of Web Performance to Information Equity

    • Better than loading fast… is loading instantly!

    • Insights from the RUM Archive

    • Web Performance at Mozilla and Wikimedia (lightning talk)

    • Fast JavaScript with Data-Oriented Design

    • Some other talks in here: Web Performance devroom - FOSDEM 2024

    • Debugging HTTP/3 upload speed in Firefox

    • Firefox power profiling: a powerful visualization of web sustainability

  • (manuel) Another good FOSDEM 2024 talk: So You Think You Know Git (on fosdem.org)

  • (manuel) 103 Early Hints - preload (Shipped Fx123!)

  • (greg) Internet security and attacks stats from Cloudflare and privacytests.org 

• Active Projects

  • Active Projects: Fx124 code freeze Feb 15th roadmap Fx123 rel Feb 20

    • OMT: Move OnStartRequest and OnStopRequest to the content process (paused, target: TBD)

      • OMT OnStart/OnStop Request (content) threading/api model

      • new Project Plan

      • Split HTML5Parser OnStop - OMT Shipped in Fx122 

        • Release verification experiment running, ends march 5th

        • Early results seem at odds with beta experiment

          • Not clear they’re significant

        • Normal glean telemetry shows the same wins we saw in nightly and beta

      • Split CSSLoader OnStop - OMT to track in Fx125

        • [Sunil] WIll resume landing after code freeze. 

      • OnStart consumer

        • — enter updates —

    • Optimize, Measure and add tests for Speculative Connections (in progress, target: Fx125) 

      • [acreskey] Beta experiment w/ rel=preconnect starting today

    • Native HTTPS RR Implementation (in progress, target Fx125)

      • — enter updates —

    • H3 Upload speed

      • Status of HTTP/3 upload speed

        • Project Plan - Advancing neqo Library Performance and Developing a Robust Testing Framework

        • https://lookerstudio.google.com/reporting/4b5fbec3-2ead-40c1-864b-26490b85b6f5/page/p_7d9166xidd 

        • [kershaw] (read only)

          • New neqo 0.7.1 released

          • Reduces CPU use at high bandwidth, should raise max bandwidth

    • 3rd Party Cookie Deprecation (in progress, target TBD)

      • — enter updates — 

    • Fetch keepalive: target H1 2024 - Scheduled

    • WebTransport over H2: Targeting 2024 - Scheduled