Meeting 2024-03-05

• Team calendar

  • Next on Necko triage: Randell

• Round Table

  • Thanks Dr. Marten Richter for implementing serverCertificateHashes correctly! (Bug 1873263)

  • [acreskey] FYI, Firefox for Android vs Chrome pageload results, live sites, Pixel 3

    • Live pageload comparisons

• Active Projects roadmap 

  • Active Projects: Fx124 rel Mar 19, Fx125 soft freeze Mar 14 

    • 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 

      • Split CSSLoader OnStop - OMT to track in Fx125

        • Perf results are here.

        • TSAN looks good.

        • Waiting for final approval from Emilio

      • OnStart consumer

        • Email sent to tnikkel

        • Lots of discussion of feasibility in OMT matrix channel

          • OnDataStarting might not be practical unless we can sufficiently set up the transfer to allow OnDataAvailable to happen before OnStartRequest runs on MT.

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

      • Beta experiment live, ends Mar 19, 2024

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

      • 1874464 - Turn on native HTTPS resolver on Nightly currently on autoland. Hopefully it will stick this time.

    • 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]

          • Investigating how to use quinn-udp in gecko

          • Quinn-udp doesn’t provide polling, so we need to use libc::poll directly or use mio.

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

      • [Ed] Clarifying question made to browser implementers of per-partition cookie cap here 

      • Also work continues on implementation/test of cookie cap

    • Fetch keepalive: target H1 2024 - Scheduled

    • WebTransport over H2: Targeting 2024 - Scheduled

    • Performance work: [jesup]

      • Preliminary results for Bug 1356686 - Do decompression off main thread in content

      • Big wins on pageload, up to 30+% on ESPN; many 5-10% wins

      • Surprising that we get this big a win; investigating