This year in web-platform-tests - 2019 edition

Welcome to "This year in web-platform-tests"; possibly the lowest frequency regular project update at Mozilla. In a break from tradition the MoCo All Hands moving to January means that this is the first edition to come from a normal office and not a hotel corridor somewhere in North America. T

Re: PSA: Dispatching background tasks just got easier!

\o/ This is super exciting! Thank you! On 12/13/2019 12:25 PM, Kristen Wright wrote: Hello! Now that Bug 1584568 just landed I wanted to mention the new background thread pool for general purpose and blocking IO runnables. Existing one-off threads, as well as new jobs

Shorter Data Collection Review Form For Renewals

Hello, In an effort to reduce the number of permanent data collections, the Data Stewardship Steering Committee has approved the addition of a new, short form (3 questions) for the purpose of making Data Collection renewals simpler.[1] Please feel welcome to use this form if you are renewing

Re: Bug Handling in Bugzilla over the End of the Year

Thank you Emma. As a further note, you can indicate in Phabricator that you aren't accepting reviews using the calendar feature. See this link for more details. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Phabricator/FAQ#How_do_I_mark_myself_.27Out_Of_Office.27_to_stop_review_requests.3F Kim On Fri, Dec 20, 2019

Bug Handling in Bugzilla over the End of the Year

As you're winding down work on Firefox at the end of the year, there's a few things to remember. First, there will be coverage for Bugzilla. Staff will be monitoring #bmo on Slack and cloud operations will be watching over Bugzilla. Second, if you see something, tag something. If you run across c

Re: Intent to unship: MathML mfenced element

On 12/18/19 10:11 AM, Frédéric Wang wrote: Thanks for doing it. Out of curiosity, what do our counters say about the % of pages containing mfenced relative to the number of pages containing MathML? FYI, most of our telemetry data is public. You should be able to find it from here: https://telem

Replacing nsIDocShellTreeItem with BrowsingContext

Hello, Colleagues! tl;dr We're removing nsIDocShellTreeItem because of Fission. Please refrain from using it, and please help us out! As we're getting further along with Fission, the work on removing nsIDocShellTreeItem completely comes into increased focus. With Fission enabled you can no longer

please run mach bootstrap; NodeJS/NPM security fixes landed

* Upgrades for NodeJS from 8.11.3 to 8.17.0 and for NPM from 5.6.0 to 6.13.4 have merged to mozilla-central. * Everyone is encouraged to run `mach bootstrap` to upgrade the toolchain on their machine. * The main security fix that we’re concerned with is in npm, so I’ve also set 6.13.4 as the

Intent to Implement and Ship: CSS overscroll-behavior-{block,inline}

Summary: The overscroll-behavior-{block,inline} CSS properties are flow-relative versions of the already-supported overscroll-behavior-{x,y} longhand properties. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1453472 Standard: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-overscroll/#overscroll-behavior-l

Announcing the Multiprocess Browser Toolbox

(cross-posting to dev-platform and dev-developer-tools, please respond to *firefox-dev*) The short version: The new Multiprocess Browser Toolbox (which can inspect and debug both parent and content processes) is now enabled in nightly! If you see anything wrong, please file a bug that blocks the

Intent to unship: MathML mfenced element

In bug 1603773 I intend to ship 'mathml.mfenced_element.disabled' set to true in all builds. This pref is already set to true in Nightly builds for ~2 months (added in bug 1587577), so my change just makes it ride the trains. The intention is to remove the preffed-off code eventually. The reaso

Re: PSA: Dispatching background tasks just got easier!

Ahh this is great, and so refreshing. I'm so happy we're starting to bring some order to our threading situation! Thanks so much to you and your team! On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 at 11:51, Kristen Wright wrote: > Hello! > Now that Bug 1584568 just landed I wanted to > men