After a year's worth of development, bug fixes, and integration testing, we are now ready to enable the latest version [1] of the Safe Browsing API in Firefox 56, two releases ahead of schedule and only a few weeks behind Chrome.
We do not expect any user-visible changes, but will be running an experiment [2] on beta to compare crash rates between the two versions of the API. After that, the feature will be rolled out to the release population in stages [3]. I want to take this opportunity to thank Dimi Lee, Henry Chang and Thomas Nguyen for spending so much time refactoring and eliminating ancient code (some of it dating back to when Safe Browsing was a Google extension for Firefox [4] or part of the Google Toolbar [5]). Thanks to their hard work, we have not only eliminated crashes and fixed intermittent test failures that have been around for many years, we now also have a stable codebase and two new module peers [6] with deep knowledge of this code. Big thanks to the other Taipei folks who helped make this happen: Ethan Tseng, Engineering Manager; Wesly Huang, EPM; and Cynthia Tang, QA Engineer. Without the work of all of these people, we would not have been able to complete the migration in time for Google's shutdown of the old servers. Francois [1] https://security.googleblog.com/2016/05/evolving-safe-browsing-api.html [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377267 [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1387651 [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20051218171531/http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/safebrowsing/index.html [5] https://web.archive.org/web/20060412192055/http://tools.google.com/firefox/toolbar/ [6] https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.governance/cF9MwHoQ09M/discussion _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
