Meeting 2025-02-04

• Team calendar

  • Next on Necko triage: Sunil

• New contributors / Friends of Necko THANK YOU!!

  • Andrea Marchesini [:baku]

    • Bug: 1937477 Enable Cookie-Store API 

    • Bug: 1944811 CookieStore API should set expiry to INT64_MAX for session cookies

  • Marten.richter

    • Bug: 1934402 Webtransport connection fails

  • Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]

    • Bug: 1945427 Loosen netwerk/test/browser/browser_103_assets.js expectation for possibly-cached preload

  • Kernp25

    • Bug: 1421393 navigator.onLine doesn't return false on Windows when disconnected from network

• Round Table

  • Blog posts published to planet.mozilla.org

    • Manuel landed patch to enable, I don't see them published

    • Do we need to improve our post format?

    • Necko Newsletter - Yes

      • Seed a draft to fill out - Valentin Gosu - thank you

        • Publish after EOY Retrospective

  • [acreskey] FYI, rel-ops ticket on ipV6 on hardware devices

    • https://mozilla-hub.atlassian.net/browse/RELOPS-1244

• Active Projects roadmap Fx135 rel Feb 04, Fx137 code freeze Feb 27

  • Private Network Access

    • (sunil) Started with implementing PNA detection in Necko

• Firefox Essential Internal Services Toughening[FEISTY] (in progress, TBD)

  • (valentin) SRE is working on making the endpoints IPv6 compatible and setting up the backup domains.

• DoH Enablement - Fenix and Focus (in progress, TBD)

  • (sekim) DoH Android UI & integration patches are being reviewed by Android reviewers 

• 3rd Party Cookie Deprecation (in progress, target Fx136)

  • Tentative 3PCD/CHIPS rollout, pushed back due to backouts:

    • 136: re-enable chips, ride the trains to release - CHIPS breakage

    • 136+:(pending experiment): 3PCD in all windows in release - 3pcd breakage

    • 136+:(pending all-windows): “Migration”/deletion of TCP cookies (non-chips partitioned)

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

  • (omansfeld) checking usage of the traffic shaping command (tc) with docs/comparing to other implementations and working on a patch with a slightly different approach to see if that improves standard deviation in test results

  • – enter updates – 

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

  • – enter updates –

• Fast UDP I/O in Firefox (in progress, target Fx136)

  • Blocked on Neqo v0.12 update https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D234901

  • Need to propagate Rust IO errors.

  • – enter updates – 

• QUIC stream receive window auto-tuning

  • Implementation ready for review 

  • – enter updates – 

• QUIC Acknowledgement Frequency draft 10

  • – enter updates – 

• Implement WebTransport based on HTTP/2

  • – enter updates – 

• NEL

  • – enter updates –

• DNS Cache Expiry

  • 1937022 - Experiment with a larger DNS grace time and a larger DNS cache size

  • Experiment Brief - DNS caching experiment

  • (omansfeld) just had intro call with valentin, looking to start experiment by end of week/beginning of next week

  • – enter updates – 

• Performance work: 

  • [acreskey] Focusing on DoH issues in Canada

  • [acreskey] FYI, updated our prioritization scheduling documents after discussion with Robin Marx: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1915852

    • Expecting to be roasted, along with other browsers, at his FOSDEM talk