The Firefox Desktop engineering team met together last Tuesday to chat about what they’re working on. Here are some juicy tidbits from that meeting:

Highlights

Contributor(s) of the Week

Project Updates

Add-ons

Users with add-ons that have multiprocessCompatible set to true in their install.rdf’s should be eligible for e10s starting in Firefox 50, assuming the two blocking bugs are fixed and uplifted

Content Handling

Electrolysis (e10s)

Firefox Core Engineering

Form Auto-fill

Go Faster

Next areas of focus are likely to be improving the system add-on roll-out facilities (tools to make publishing easier) & update times (time from publish to when a user is running with the update). Restartless system add-ons likely to land soon Other issues being discussed in this bug



Localization

Update on L20n in Firefox Hitting performance snags when touching XUL nodes dynamically using JS, so we’re talking to the Technical Architecture Group about that We need someone to debug a test failure of one specific unit test Development is occurring on https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/larch/



Platform UI and Other Platform Audibles

daleharvey fixed a bug that was preventing GMP installation for 64-bit OS’s

mconley is working with Layout to make it easier to style checkbox / radio boxes

Simplify Page feature for Print Preview has been disabled in a few areas: Only enabled on Nightly for Linux until this bug is fixed Enabled on Windows up to early beta until these two bugs are fixed



Privacy / Security

The latest patch for permission prompts is in the second round of reviews.

Contextual insecure password warning is still targeting Firefox 52. Getting help from seanlee, jkt, mconley, and daleharvey

Quality of Experience

Search

Fixed various regressions around the awesomebar, but more importantly, fixed some telemetry bugs that were discovered after the recent changes for one-off search buttons in the location bar. The beta channel proved immune to these issues, so the SHIELD study for unified search can proceed as planned.

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Here are the raw meeting notes that were used to derive this list.

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