The first Firefox Desktop Engineering meeting for 2017 took place this morning! Here are the interesting bits:

Highlights

past wrote a blog post about some upcoming privacy and security features

ashughes has posted some very interesting GPU Process Experiment Results TL;DR: A GPU process is a very good idea!

The Cliqz Test Pilot experiment has launched in Germany! It’s available in other regions as well, but the suggestions it offers will be very Germany-centric



Contributor(s) of the Week

Project Updates

Add-ons

Still on course for WebExtension permissions appearing on installation in Firefox 53

WebExtensions sidebar support mvp likely in Firefox 53

Chrome.storage.sync on course for shipping in Firefox 53

Content Handling Enhancement

Electrolysis (e10s)

Content process crashes now report via their own ping

ddurst reports that his team is about to land pingSender, which sends pings via a separate executable and will allow us to see final crashes and (an as-yet-unknown amount of) startup crashes

Flash default-as-CTP SHIELD experiment targeted for Firefox 52 release

The Firefox update UI is going to get some attention in Q1 of 2017

MattN lets us know that the Form Autofill team has made progress working on connecting to autocomplete and filling profiles.

Platform UI and other Platform Audibles

mconley notes that we are removing the Adobe Primetime CDM. Sayonara!

Privacy/Security

Florian reports that the new Captive Portal UI will ship in Firefox 52. Last bits of polish have just landed and are being uplifted.

Quality of Experience

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

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