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[+M2Ys4U Subscriber¹]

I wondered what was causing that, annoying since I don't have middle click on this trackpad, but if I can select text inside a link now I'm ok with it.

 

Have you tried 'clicking' with both mouse buttons at the same time? Works on my trackpad.

[Syanide]

Sometimes I open an image in a new tab and the tab titlebar area gets totally botched when I switch focus to the tab, losing the background color for the most part. Anyone else gets this? Only happens if an image was open in it.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Have you tried 'clicking' with both mouse buttons at the same time? Works on my trackpad.

Nah, that's right click for me, don't think the driver supports sending a middle click.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Page to track Addons compatibility with Electrolysis: http://arewee10syet.com/

[BooBerry]

  Electrolysis

 

 

  M1 milestone: e10s browser is usable by average Nightly users.

    M1 burndown chart of dev-hours renaming:

    You must be on Mozilla VPN or office intranet and then disable Mixed Content Blocking for Elastic Search to work!

    https://people.mozilla.org/~cpeterson/es/e10s-m1-burndown.html

    complete list - http://tinyurl.com/mmh3gg2

    assigned - http://tinyurl.com/ml2u3pr

    unassigned - http://tinyurl.com/kvksjgs

    e10s-m1-fixed bugs:

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=997456&maxdepth=1&hide_resolved=1

    cmd=e10s-m1-fixed

    e10s-m1-open bugs:

    https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=e10s-m1-open

    M2 milestone: e10s browser can be enabled by default in Nightly (but not necessarily ride the trains)

    complete list - http://tinyurl.com/kjkflgj

    assigned - http://tinyurl.com/m5o76hh

    unassigned - http://tinyurl.com/k36fe8x

    Triage bugs: http://tinyurl.com/l36ft3l

 

[BooBerry]

Firefox Multi-process architecture roadmap

    July 18, 2014 - Milestone 1: make E10s usable for average Nightly users but is not enabled by default.
    July 21, 2014 - Firefox 34 development begins. Mozilla wants to use the six weeks that follow to get Nightly users and add-on developers to test e10s and especially add-on compatibility.
    September 1, 2014 - Firefox 35 development begins. Mozilla plans to reach Milestone 2 in this development period. When Milestone 2 is reached, Electrolysis is at a point where it can be enabled for Nightly users.
    October 13, 2014 - Firefox 36 development begins. This is the version of the browser where Firefox's multi-process architecture will be moved from channel to channel (Nightly > Aurora > Beta > Stable) so that it is released to the stable channel of the browser on February 16, 2015

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Pretty sure it's on the roadmap, but I hope we get APZC and tiling on desktop before e10s.

[.stan]

Firefox Multi-process architecture roadmap

    July 18, 2014 - Milestone 1: make E10s usable for average Nightly users but is not enabled by default.

    July 21, 2014 - Firefox 34 development begins. Mozilla wants to use the six weeks that follow to get Nightly users and add-on developers to test e10s and especially add-on compatibility.

    September 1, 2014 - Firefox 35 development begins. Mozilla plans to reach Milestone 2 in this development period. When Milestone 2 is reached, Electrolysis is at a point where it can be enabled for Nightly users.

    October 13, 2014 - Firefox 36 development begins. This is the version of the browser where Firefox's multi-process architecture will be moved from channel to channel (Nightly > Aurora > Beta > Stable) so that it is released to the stable channel of the browser on February 16, 2015

When Mozilla announces such dates/version targets you always have to at least do +2, if not +3.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Latin1 Strings (UTF-8) has been now default enabled (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037871) for many stuff. It will bring memory efficiency and improvement in certain js benchmarks like ss-dna. It will also help in cleaning some dead code as well. Not to mention Chrome v8 JS engine also use UTF-8 strings.
 
Latin 1 bugs:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034689
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038093
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037869
[MemShrink Reporting] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037886
 
Peacekeeper "stringFilter" regression due to irregexp port has been been fixed now, it was quite massive regression, approval for aurora also tagged lets see when this happen. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024132
 
e10s bugs:
e10s FTP broken with proxies - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=915024
addons related work - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017323 ; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1029926 ; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1031609 ; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=673569
Inline spell checking - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693555
No browsing ability on browser.tabs.remote.autostart - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039586

Show whether current window in e10s in about:support - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038245
 
In-content relevant fixes:
In-content preference dialog - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037081
Retina Display relevant - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1002354
Sync Pane - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036054
 
Web Animation relevant work:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1032573
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036287
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036300
 
 
Interesting bugs:
 
--- Number search from location bar should trigger Search engine search - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=693808
--- HTTP 2 relevant proxying auth 407 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037082
--- Remove "Clear clipboard data on exit" during Private browsing - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=815952
--- Linux Dark theme related - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037411
--- Key bug for @media and @keyframes in style inspector landed - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=591303
--- Performance improvement - Scaled content is rendered wrong - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034247
--- Crash fix with Dash and MSE enabled - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1031532
--- MemShrink related to fragmentation - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036784 ; https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1017165
--- MemShrink related to Graphics found by Coverity - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024196
--- MemShrink related to WebRTC found by Coverity - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=980270
--- ARM full Float32 support - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991153
--- WebGL performance improvement involving Video - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=814524
--- Cleanup in JS - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037613  & Cleanup in Graphics - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1021637
--- Clang build support on Windows supporting bug in libyuv - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038492
--- Intel GPU relaxation to avoid crashes - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=988549
--- Password Sync with FX Account and Master Password - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1013064
--- Graphics performance warning feature [when hit slow paths and why] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=864829
--- OMTC relevant bug - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036785
--- MemShrink [shapeTable space optimizations] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038038
--- ES6 [Default parameters should be evaluated before function declarations] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1022962
--- Cache thread stuck issue - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028415
--- Cache2 backend lock handling - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1035411
--- Removal of imported Chromium Sandbox unused code - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1035275
--- HTML Import scenario crash fix - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016875
--- Stop accepting certificates that use RSA 1023 or weaker signatures - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=360126
--- Unreadable text on NTP if Dark theme - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038607
--- Coverity found out of bound access in JS Engine - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037898
--- Performance improvement [slow behavior in ValueNumberer for large pathological asm.js function] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845068
--- Code removal in Networking:DNS - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039653
--- ARM Assembler simplification in JS engine - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026919
--- Integrate OpenH.264 in Addons Manager - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1009909
--- [Oldie]  Library window divider between content list and bookmarks too thin on Mac OS X and Linux/GTK - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440150
--- Shorthand CSS for animation-play-state - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037314
--- CSS Animation dispatch event issue when no animation-name - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1033881
--- hook Gecko Media Plugin with WebRTC codecs - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1037754
 
--- Disable PGO in js/src for MSVC 2010 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030706
--- Sandbox Gecko Media Plugins on Windows - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=985252
--- VC11+ defaults to SSE2 enabled build - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=836658
 
 
--- [LANDING & BACKOUT] APZ Scrolling relevant - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1022612 
 
Mozilla Firefox also started work on requestAutocomplete like Chrome - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1018291
Shumway and Application Reputation to avoid downloading stupid Malware affected files also underway. Plans are to enable OMTC throughout Aurora as well, so that it could ship Beta and then finally Release.
Firefox seer [starting connection ahead to improve loading stuff] has been renamed to Predictor now.
 
Work on smarter responsive new tab page which will make more thumbnails on screen if it possible without adding scrolling - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1026561

[BooBerry]

Google enforces HTML5 use on YouTube for Firefox 33

[+Red King Subscriber²]

Google enforces HTML5 use on YouTube for Firefox 33

DXVA2 just like IE11, I hope?

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Firefox has done DXVA decoding for quite a while, bigger issue is that YouTube wants Media Source Extensions, which doesn't currently work.

Upside is that Window users at least get 720p H.264 for the fallback case, but OS X users (i.e. me) get 360p WebM (Y)

Edit: yeah, Firefox has used DXVA2 since version 23.

[BooBerry]

Session Restore

 

• Bug 506975 - [session Restore] Write sessionstore.js less often when on battery - mentoring, reviews
• Bug 1036341 - [session Restore] Discriminate more precisely between new profile and catastrophic crash - filed, prepping for mentoring
• Resuming Talos-based experiments
• Bug 686157 - CPU spikes and multi-second lockups (switching tabs and typing) - investigating

Feature Promotion next step

• Bug 1028968 - [uX] Designs for in-product promotion of Firefox Account creation

 

Light-weight Themes in customization

• Bug 1015157 - [uX] Quick visual fixes for lightweight theme display on Windows and Linux
• Bug 1021736 - [uX] Pick and/or create five lightweight themes to promote in customization mode

 

? Enhanced Tiles V1 design (currently in development)

 

? works started  on Enhanced Tiles (V2)

[BooBerry]

Font refactoring work in progress & will land next cycle [34]

 

• Fonts are only read once from disk while in use (they are discarded if the reference count reaches zero, however). This saves memory and prevents unnecessary reading from disk.
• It will be easier to add web font support, as all fonts are created and managed in a single place and the entire pipeline ensures that only one in-memory copy of font data is required.

An overview of how the pieces fit together:

FontTemplate - A structure containing everything that
is required to create (and select) font handles. This
structure is shared among all matching font handles
(via Arc).

FontTemplateData - A platform specific structure that
contains the actual font data inside a template (this is
a byte array on Linux/Android, CTFont on Mac).

FontHandle - An opaque, platform specific handle to
a font instance. Each FontHandle contains an Arc<>
reference to the FontTemplate it was created from.

FontCache - This is a separate task, that is responsible
for loading and caching FontTemplate structures. There
is one FontCache per constellation. It is only ever accessed
via the FontContext described below.

FontContext - This is the public interface to the FontCache
and is used by the layout and render code to create font
handles. These must not be shared between threads. There
is typically one FontContext per thread/task.

[+Zlip792 MVC]

Some more bugs landed:

 

--- background-blend-mode related bug [blending with backdrop of root element]  - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038521

--- Another Ion Monkey Recover Instruction added - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034665

--- WebGL 1.0.3 failures on oes_texture_float test fix - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1030206

--- pixman library leak fix (found by Coverity) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1024223

--- RadioNodeList implementation - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=779723

--- Invalidation fix - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038781

--- [LANDED & BACKED OUT] CSS Filters rendering through Moz2D (old Azure API) - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=948265

--- Escape Analysis in JS Engine relevant work - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992845

--- Related to above mention asm.js [ slow behavior in ValueNumberer for large pathological asm.js function] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039836

--- Error Page hover relevant cursor fix - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1031571

--- Broken null check for object property - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1028990

--- HiDPI and Inverted icons for context menus - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1016405

--- Workaround to find out how many bogus protocol websites going to Google rather than error page - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038248

--- Web Animation relevant regression fix - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038032

--- Add support for window sharing for getUserMedia [WebRTC if you know] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038926

--- API to know which video streams tabs are using [WebRTC relevant] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039529

--- Web Audio API delay node distortion - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=932400

--- [EME] Expose decryption data in MP4Samples - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1022434

---  Make nsLayoutUtils arithmetic consistent for computing dimension from intrinsic-ratio & other dimension - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039796

--- Cairo & Pixman relevant [large background-images and gradients don't work beyond ~ 32768px] - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=671302

--- CSS animation makes containing text jump/shake with hardware acceleration disabled - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1023677

--- Remove partial component alpha support from BasicCompositor - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1039145

--- Crash + small security fix - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1015844

--- WebGL element array cache - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1038928

--- Panel animations have wrong anchor in RTL mode - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027057

 

 

OpenH264 work:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1040048

 

e10s bugs:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=950745

[addon] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1027299

[Adblock Plus] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1007982

[Can't install non-AMO addon] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=952201

 

--- Text selection inside link behavior is now backed out from Nightly - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=378775#c53

[BooBerry]

new context menu icons

[Excelsis]

These look nice but.. I'd prefer just having the text. Anyway to revert back? Perhaps some CSS code could do it?

[BooBerry]

media.peerconnection.video.h264_enabled and  set it to true.

 

Mozilla had quite the discussion about how to handle this delicate matter. For now, it seems to favor the following decisions:

• The video codec is listed under Plugins in the Add-ons Manager.
• Users will have options to activate or deactivate it there.
• Click to play support wont be implemented.
• Automatic updates will be supported.
• Target are all supported desktop platforms.

even though OpenH264 is listed under plugins, it is not a standard plugin, Mozilla files it under Gecko Media Plugins

GMP is a special purpose extension point for authorised 3rd party codecs and EME (Encrypted Media Extensions) CDMs (Content Decryption Modules).

Besides that, it is a component that gets downloaded and installed directly by the browser even though it is not maintained by Mozilla but downloaded from Cisco instead.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

The GMP plugin interface is generic enough to allow for any real codec to be slotted in (Daala could be distributed that way), but it's also sandboxed to hell and back and Firefox won't use any random module, it has checks in place to only allow specific ones (To avoid the situation with plugins where sites can prompt users to download and install them)

The Adobe DRM module is going to plug in the same way (Since it's a H.264 decoder that functions specifically on encrypted streams, so all the demuxing stuff is the same), although that also requires Firefox to limit what the user can do to the resulting decoded frames.

[Excelsis]

With Youtube enforcing HTML5 use, I've been seeing some videos where the only choices are 360p and 720p, when I know 480p/1080p are also choices. When can we expect this to be fixed? I thought having h.264 would do it, but I've enabled it and those same videos still only have 360p/720p.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

You also need to enable Media Source Extensions and tell Firefox to enable H.264 support (Hidden pref I can't remember the name of), and it'll most likely crash instantly (Or you'll get one stream playing, blank video, etc.)

It's apparently been done on Google's end so that Mozilla can test MSE in a production environment, it's only enabled for Nightly users.

[Excelsis]

I am running Nightly and enabled MSE. Still happens. It seems to be videos that would have ads when using the flash player though. Been waiting on this for awhile though, so it's better than nothing.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Only getting 360p and 720p means it's not using Dash, which means it's not using MSE and falling back to plain H.264/WebM. Does this page work for you?

http://dash-mse-test.appspot.com/dash-player.html?url=http://yt-dash-mse-test.commondatastorage.googleapis.com/media/car-20120827-manifest.mpd

[Karl-Johan]

OpenH264 plugin just says "will be installed shortly" and i've set "media.peerconnection.video.h264_enabled;true", am I missing something. Using 64 bit nightly.

[Excelsis]

Nope, not working. Getting this error in the console below the video player: Deregistering progress timer and Implausible duration from video element: NaN.

Tried a new profile, enabled MSE and h.264 and it still doesn't work. Tried again after downloading the latest Hourly and it's doing the same thing.