Highlights

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Project Updates

Add-ons

Activity Stream

1.8.0 released to Test Pilot with more customization: editing top sites, showing 2 rows

Initial Pocket integration discussion targeting 57 as in-addition or replacing highlights

Greening of exported system add-on on pine branch to reduce starring efforts Thanks aki for tweaking build configs

Progress with mozilla-central patches adding react / redux / reselect with related licenses, data storage / reducer framework, Places query optimizations

Electrolysis (e10s)

Still on target to ship e10s-multi (4 content processes) in 55 A bunch of work is also being uplifted to 54 to support this. If it turns out that we pass our release criteria on 54 on beta, we may consider turning on e10s-multi to some non-zero segment of our release population in 54. More details here.

a11y support currently targeting Firefox 55

Doug Thayer is also working on porting the Gecko Profiler to a WebExtension! 🎉🎉🎉

Client-side stackwalking: The client-side machinery for sending stacks in crash pings (M+C) — and using pingSender to send it right away — has landed in 55. All but two of those bugs have been uplifted to Aurora 54. We’re working on the server-side processing for crash stacks to identify top crashers during 53 release.

Updater: The Update Agent is going to begin as just a continuation of the download of the update, targeted for 55.



Mobile

The Fennec team reports better push support for account sign-in verification

The Fennec team has also fixed a regression preventing Nightly and Aurora users from syncing history, tabs, etc

Photon

Privacy/Security

We’re fixing some last bugs to get the new permission doorhangers ready in 53

We disabled named property access in content scripts (for WebExtensions only for now) Background reading on the excellent LastPass exploit here



Not much changed since last meeting: hi-res favicons and one-offs are almost ready to land and search suggestions are soon going to become opt-out.

Miscellaneous fixes still happening.

Storage Management

Engaging with SV for testing, front-end devs moved to Photon now.

Snooze Tabs did a release last week!

Activity Stream, Tab Center and Pulse did releases this week

Min Vid playback queues coming next week

Test Pilot release going out today which uses mozAddonManager much more, fixing many weird corner case bugs The non-mozAddonManager code path still works for older Firefox, but will be removed soonish

Finalized our Q2 OKRs

As requested, Brown Bag about Screenshots engineering and product roadmap coming soon

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

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