Meeting 2024-07-02

• Team calendar

  • Next on Necko triage: Kershaw

• New contributors / Friends of Necko THANK YOU!!

  • Andrea Marchesini [:baku] 

    • Bug: 1904557 Unify and improve cookie warning messages 

  • Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]

    • Bug: 1900375 Expose an interface to provide a fake response object 

  • Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]

    • Bug: 697151 Synchronous XMLHttpRequest (XHR) does not block readyState events for async XHR

    • Bug: 1848036 Add an ability to determine if it's safe to call an nsIRequest's suspend method 

  • Byron Campen [:bwc]

    • Bug: 1903905 Intermittent Assertion failure: stream != (0xFFFF), at /builds/worker/checkouts/gecko/netwerk/sctp/datachannel/DataChannel.cpp:2472 

• Round Table

  • No public topics this week

• Active Projects roadmap Fx128 rel July 09, Fx 129 soft freeze July 04 

  • Native HTTPS RR Implementation (in progress, target Fx129)

    • [kershaw] another potential blocker:

      • Bug 1895741 Intermittent valgrind-test | 28 bytes in 1 blocks are definitely lost at malloc / __res_context_send / __res_context_query / __res_context_querydomain

        • [kerahaw]

          • r?

  • 3rd Party Cookie Deprecation (in progress, target Fx132)

    • [Ed] Move to 133 TBD

  • Fetch keepalive: (in progress, Target Fx130) 

    • 1871378 Addressed review comments, waiting on review. 

  • HTTP Priorities Experiments (in progress, target Fx130 )

    • [acreskey]

      • Experiment live

      • Priority header already shipped in Fx126

        • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1865394

      • Fx 128 includes:

        • Implement Extensible Prioritization Scheme for HTTP/2

          • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1865040

        • Incremental flag on images, dom

          • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1784496

• Firefox/Chrome benchmark test suite (in progress, Fx132)

  • [kershaw]

    • Working on taskcluster

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

  • Fixing Bug 1904582 

• necko-glean: (sekim) Landing glean patches using #ifndef ANDROID blocks, tracking such blocks using Bug 1901798  

  • Updated dashboard: https://sql.telemetry.mozilla.org/dashboard/channel-success-error?p_channel=nightly&p_days=10&p_include_200_ok=false

• Fast UDP I/O in Firefox (in progress, target H2 2024)

  • Milestone 1 - Integrate quinn_udp into Necko (single-packet)

    • Blocked on false-positive cargo vet failure.

    • Needs testing on Windows. Setting up a virtual machine next.

    • Needs testing on MacOS. Will get Mac Book from servicedesk

    • Needs a decision whether fallback to NSPR is required.

  • Milestone 2 - Hookup ECN

    • Need to investigate behavior on path dropping all ECN marked packets.

• Performance work: 

  • [acreskey] Bug 1889771 - Increase network.http.max-connections on Android nightly (currently 40 (900 on desktop))

    • Dashboards convert impact via backout

      • Fenix pulse

      • Landing telemetry on socket pool exhaustion: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1901855

      • Then intention is to land increase in Nightly, ride the trains

  • New experiments:

    • OMT Decompression + html5Parser, cssLoader 

      • [Sunil] Experiment is live

      • Experiment Brief

      • Data ticket

  • [jesup] overhead per-request (See https://share.firefox.dev/4bkNrqS)