Meeting 2025-02-25

• Team calendar

  • Next on Necko triage: Kershaw

• New contributors / Friends of Necko – Thank you!

  •  Manuel Bucher [:manuel]

    • Bug: 1944310 Network cache clears partitions even when clearing by principal providing concrete partition to clear

    • Bug: 1948011 Test cache2.clearOriginAttributes with changes introduced in Bug 1819147

  •  Mike Hommey [:glandium]

    • Bug: 1949100 [libz-rs] Perma modules/libjar/zipwriter/test/unit/test_bug399727.js | xpcshell return code: 0

• Round Table

• Active Projects roadmap Fx136 rel Mar 04, Fx137 code freeze Feb 27

  • Private Network Access

[Sunil]

• PNA slack channel

• Chrome will likely not ship PNA and has proposed a CORS-less local-network-access alternative .

• We need to reconfirm with Chrome about their PNA plan and local-network-access plan.

• Rescoping of the project plan based  is underway 

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

  • – enter updates –

• DoH Enablement - Fenix and Focus (in progress, H2-2025)

  • [sekim] Landed Add DoH to the settings UI in Fenix (as a secret setting). Planning to file a QA request soon.

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

  • Webcompat concerns - at XLT 

  • – enter updates –

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

  • [kershaw]

    • Running reguraly on CI

    • Collecting data

• 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)

  • Experiment / roll out via Nimbus next for base quinn-udp pref.

  • ECN metrics show 2.7% of paths being black-holed.

    • Thus delays connection establishment by ~1s for 2.7% of connections.

    • Need to reconsider roll-out safety. Will discuss more in h3 meeting on Wednesday.

• QUIC stream receive window auto-tuning

  • – enter updates –

• QUIC Acknowledgement Frequency draft 10

  • – enter updates –

• Implement WebTransport based on HTTP/2

  • [kershaw]

    • WIP

• NEL

  • – enter updates –

• DNS Cache Expiry:

  • experimenter link

  • [omansfeld] experiment ended, looking at results today, still writing queries

  • – enter updates –

• Support compression dictionary transport

  • Initial cut of memory cache implemented; can send Available-Dictionary headers

  • Working on handling Use-As-Dictionary and feeding into the memory cache

  • Once these are mostly working I’ll start on storing the dictionary data in the disk cache

• Performance work: 

  • TRR Performance work