Meeting 2024-04-16

• Team calendar

  • Next on Necko triage: Kershaw

• New contributors / Friends of Necko

  • New contributor Serfreeman1337 fixed 1810362 - Firefox does not seem to support IPv6 unless DNS-over-HTTPS is enabled 

  • Thomas Wisniewski fixed 1886757 - network.dns.localdomains does not apply to FQDN 

  • Chris Peterson fixed 1873273 - Freeze UA string and navigator.platform on 32-bit x86 Linux to match Chrome’s frozen navigator.platform (Linux x86_64)

• Round Table

  • (valentin) Next ESR is 128 - code freeze date: June 6 - that means if we have big refactorings we should aim to get them done by then, to avoid conflicts when uplifting stuff later.

• Active Projects roadmap 

  • Active Projects: Fx125 rel Apr 16, Fx126 soft freeze Apr 11 

    • 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 Fx126

        • – enter updates –

      • OnStart consumer

        • – enter updates –

    • Optimize, Measure and add tests for Speculative Connections (in progress, target: Fx126) 

      • No updates

    • Native HTTPS RR Implementation (in progress, target Fx126)

      • New regression: 1891423 - Hosts file no longer blocks some sites since native HTTPS resolver was enabled on Ubuntu

        • Should we check /etc/hosts before doing a HTTPS lookup?

    • Interop 2024 URL (in progress, target H2 2024)

      • [Ed] Looking at how to use RemoteSettings to get our default bypass list into the program from the cloud

    • 3rd Party Cookie Deprecation (in progress, target Apr 9)

      • [Ed] Added priority purging of insecure cookies, also byte limit check on cookie overwrite

      • [Ed] Started writing the test for cookie partition limit purging 

    • zstd content-encoding: (in progress, Fx126)

      • [jesup] zstd landed and is in beta!  No known regressions

      • [jesup] Performance results from the OMT decompression patch were surprisingly good from GLAM telemetry

        • FCP/LCP/DOM Dontent Loaded/etc improved by 10% in many cases, 30% in some higher %iles

      • [Dylan] 

        • done devtools support

        • Writing zstd devtools test

    • Fetch keepalive: (in progress, Target Fx128) 

                                               [Sunil] Bug 1871377 , Bug 1871376

• Most of the functionality required for Milestone 1 is working and wpt verified.

• Will publish patches for review