Mozilla Project Weekly: September 28th, 2009

Firefox 3.0.15
- on track for October 21 releases
Firefox 3.5.4
- on track for October 21 releases
Namoroka (Firefox 3.6)
- The new Troubleshooting Information (about:support) page landed on trunk and branch (bug 367596)
- Lightweight theme support has landed (aka: native Personas) through presently the gallery at getpersonas.com doesn’t recognize the native client support
- we have 27 front end blockers to knock down, 7 of which to complete before beta
- a beta schedule should be available by tomorrow’s development meeting

Gecko 1.9.2
- Last week we proposed a set of goals for Q4. I’ve received some great feedback, and there will be changes.
- We’re going to be changing/removing a few goals in order for us to focus on crashes on a massive scale. Friday evening, we formed a small team to kill top crashers. Over the next several weeks we plan to dramatically reduce those crashes.
- Speaking of crashes, last week the CoolIris team released an update to their plug-in that triggered a spike in crashes in the plug-in, resulting in their plug-in being the top crasher in Firefox 3 and 3.5. They worked over the weekend, along with guys on our team who helped identify the issue, to back out the changes.
- It’s spikes like the above that demonstrate the importance of completing out of process plug-ins. Last Friday, I saw a demo-and I hope we see a blog post/video demo soon-of flash running out of process in our browser, where killing the process running flash left the browser running fine. Maybe Ben Turner can share that with the world soon? 😉
- Blockers:
  - P1: 34
  - P2: 93
  - P3: 0
  - Other: 2
- Team blocker numbers:
  - Layout: 33
  - Content: 17
  - GFX: 13
  - JS: 37

TBird 3.0RC1 (Shredder)
- Hard at work on patches for the 3.0 string freeze, which is tomorrow (Tuesday, September 29, 23:59 Pacific)
- Please help by testing nightly builds and providing constructive feedback and filing bugs!

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