Mozilla

Summary

• darin landed the URL parsing rewrite (bug 103916) that has landed us with a significant improvement in page load time. Way to go Darin!!
• riaging continues-- lots of bugs to go thru still.

Highlights

• darin
  • landed standard url rewrite (bug 103916)
  • fixed bug 97958 "[CRASH] on :jar protocol" with the help of dbaron
  • fixed bug 107789 "deprecate nsIRandomAccessStore (superceded by nsISeekableStream)"
  • revised digest auth patch (bug 15860)
  • worked on patch for bug 83471 "prevent infinite redirection loops"
  • triaged bugs
• neeti
  • Checked in fix for removing serviceEntry from ComponentManager.
  • Working/investigating on xpcom threadsafety issues.
  • Triaged bugs.
• gordon
  • Squishing bugs:
  • WONFIX bug 89903 "Slow Page Load with Cache on Remote Drive"
  • FIXED bug 84531 "DNS cache eviction count not always decremented"
  • WORKSFORME bug 108388 "Caching of DNS entries has stopped"
  • WORKSFORME bug 92069 "MacBinary is recognized as Untyped binary data"
  • create patch for bug 110405 "Assertions in cache code"
  • duped and triaged more bugs.
  • worked on bug 105344 "Memory cache pref should be a percentage of physical RAM"
  • worked on bug 81724 "disk cache needs stream wrappers"
• gagan
  • attended the all managers offsite- learned about people and processes.
• dougt
  • 105719. Worked on optimizing observer service notification. Patch improves notification but still has some problems.
  • triaged bugs.
    

Lowlights

• darin
  • some regressions from standard url landing :(
• gordon
  • The tree never seems open during the day...
• gagan
  • no status from pavlov this week :-(
  • 0.9.7 bugs creeped up a little (possibly from the spillage from 0.9.6)
• dougt
  • Windows machine died - blue screen of death at startup. Fixed after replacing redbook.sys with a new version. Weird huh?!

Plans for next week

• darin
  • fix standard url regressions
  • land digest auth patch
  • fix other bugs for mozilla 0.9.7
  • triage bugs
• gordon
  • continue work on bugs 81724 and 105344.
• gagan
  • maintain the decorum in webplatform as virtual clayton.

Issues

Highlights

• Lots of performance work going on including a number of message display performance improvements.
• Checked in the Prefill Filters feature.
  
• Fixed lots of regressions.
  
• Resolved as fixed 64 bugs.
  

Performance and Footprint

• Look here for the performance page.
• General
  • Varada is almost ready to land mail Tinderbox leak/bloat testing.
  • Varada is continuing to add instrumentation so that we can start automating performance timing.
    
• Message Display
  • Scott made the browser tag extendable so we could disable session history and global history in the message pane
  • Scott reduced the number of round trips between JS and C++ when displaying a message by broadcasting the headers all at once in one call instead of one call per header.
  • Scott overrode command sets coming from utilityOverlay.xul so we don't attempt to update those commands when focus and select events are fired. This was causing us to update cmd_undo, cmd_redo and cmd_delete multiple times when displaying a message.
  • Scott optimized some of our CSS rules to be a little faster for message display. Removed some obsolete headers.
  • Scott delayed construction of the long email address view until the user clicks on the toggle.
  • Scott cached & reused our dynamically created email address nodes for to, cc & bcc in the header view to reduce the time spent doing frame construction and general JS processing time.
• 3 Pane
  • Navin removed some printfs that were being printed out during message download and biff.
    
• Compose Window
  • Cavin investigated whether lazily creating some of our dynamic menus would improve open window time and discovered that the difference isn't very much.
    
• Startup Performance
  • Cavin analyzed the time for creating various tool bars in the mail window. It’s about 5.5% faster without the tool bar, 6.83% faster without tool bar and status bar, and 7.82% faster without tool bar, status bar and quick search bar.
  • Cavin and Stephen did some timings without the sidebar and found that we save between 10-20% without the sidebar in the 3 pane.
  • Cavin did some dll profiling and found that loading dll's takes about 2.5% of mail startup time.
    
• Address Book
  • Seth continued to work on the conversion to outliner and is fixing several bugs along the way. The current estimate has him able to land by the end of November.
    
• Footprint
  • Navin fixed nsImapCacheStreamListener and nsNntpCacheStreamListener leaks whenever we read from cache. It happened if you read a message more than once.
  • Navin started generating Purify logs for common pop operations and is looking into bloat for these same operations.
  • David removed the orkin layer of Mork and continued fixing Mork leaks.
    
    

Mailnews Accomplishments

• Scott
  • See performance work above.
  • Turned on SMIME for trunk builds.
  • Fixed a regression caused by some new grid changes that caused you to lose your header view when you went into brief mode.
• Cavin
  • See performance work above.
  • Fixed a crash loading a threaded folder.
• Sean
  • Finished the thread pane and filter dialog works for labels. This is in the review process now.
• Seth
  • See performance work above.
  • Bulletproofed a top crasher in news.
  • Bulletproofed a biff crasher.
  • Made it so that "properties" brings up a mailing list when a mailing list is selected in the directory pane.
  • Fixed a regression where an existing card couldn't be edited.
  • Fixed a regression where search results weren't showing up in the search dialog.
  • Fixed a regression where reply stopped working.
  • Fixed a regression where edit message as new and forward inline stopped working.
    
  • Made it so we enable the Get Msgs toolbar button even if a folder isn't selected.
• Navin
  • See performance work above.
    
  • Fixed a bug where copying messages was failing from a 2nd pop account.
• David
  • See performance work above.
  • Fixed a problem saving offline imap attachments if the message was read online with Mime Parts on Demand and stored offline when it was read.
  • Tracked down some draft editing regressions.
• Varada
  • See performance work above.
    
  • Checked in prefill filters.
• Bhuvan
  • Started converting the Account Manager to use the new </wizard> tag.
  • Made it so we can read in ISP data from the rdf files with the new tag.
    
  • Fixed a regression where you couldn't create a news account.
  • Fixed a regression sending mail caused by performing actions in the account manager.
• Jean-Francois
  • Continued to work on bugs associated with recycling the compose window.
• Håkan Waara
  • Aligned some text in the subscribe dialog.
  • Fixed some autosubscribe bugs.
• Christopher Blizzard
  • Made it so messages can be dragged from the thread pane to the compose window on Linux.
• Stephen Donner
  • Improved some context menu wording.
• Ben Ruppel
  • Fixed some access keys in the addressbook.
• James Gurganus and Geoffrey Gustafson
  • Fixed a bug where we were sometimes leaving off the last byte when sending attachments thereby sending corrupt attachments.

Here is a link to the Navigator team's progress report for last week: http://mozilla.org/xpapps/progress/2001-11-16.html

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