Meeting 2025-02-11

• Team calendar

  • Next on Necko triage: Valentin

• New contributors / Friends of Necko THANK YOU!!

  • Nika Layzell [:nika] (ni? for response)

    • Bug: 1944365 Consider using a single `mSpec` buffer in `nsSimpleURI`

  • Tooru Fujisawa [:arai]

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

  • Yoshi Cheng-Hao Huang [:allstars.chh][:allstarschh][:yoshi] OOO ~ Feb.7

    • Bug: 1933239 Set Accept header to `application/json,*/*;q=0.5` when fetching JSON modules

  • Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]

    • Bug: 1942380 Use nsMultiplexInputStream directly from C++.

• Round Table

  • [valentin] Google is planning on reusing our Structured Field Values crate (implemented in 2020 by our outreacy intern) so they are making some nice contributions.

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

  • Private Network Access

    • [Sunil] Bug 1944556 - Prototyping PNA detection

    • Waiting on Dan sec review, post to Jira

    • Dan is enough 

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

    • AMO not blocked, status updated

    • Main work is with SRE, need to review tickets and confirm scheduling with SRE

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

    • [sekim] Added the tests for DoH on Android middleware, settings provider, and URL validator. Currently in review.

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

    • Updated timeline:

      • Finishing experiment soon

      • CHIPS will likely ship shortly after

      • No target for 3pcd, due to webcompat concerns

      • Wait for Chrome to rollout and we will follow

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

    • [kershaw]

      • Patch to add iPerf3 is in review

      • Test shows that using bigger send window size improves upload goodput.

        • 300M_40ms: 130 Mbps -> 150 Mbps

        • 300M_80ms: 60 Mbps -> 100 Mbps

  • 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 Fx137)

    • Quinn-udp is used in Firefox 136 beta.

    • Neqo v0.12 upgrade is more difficult than expected. See details in https://github.com/mozilla/neqo/pull/2427.

  • QUIC stream receive window auto-tuning

    • In review

  • QUIC Acknowledgement Frequency draft 10

    • Paused for now until Fast UDP in Firefox and PMTUD is done.

  • Implement WebTransport based on HTTP/2

    • [kershaw]

      • Working on capsule protocol

      • Need a newer version of nodejs on CI

      • Current Node 18 need to upgrade 22 or 23

      • Some existing bugs on 20 upgrade

      • 1942260 - Update the version of Node for tests to use at least Node 20 

  • NEL

    • [valentin] Fixing WPT bug

    • Doing perf test

    • Looking at integration with nsIClearDataService

  • DNS Cache Expiry

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

    • Experiment Brief - DNS caching experiment

    • Found a bug with how the grace period is applied (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1947414) so running the exp with just cache size for now while fixing it

    • Experiment is in launch review

  • Performance work: 

    • TRR Performance work