PHC, a probabilistic heap checker, will soon be enabled on Linux64 Nightly

Greetings, PHC is a probabilistic heap checker I have been working on. It has landed and I am planning to enable it on Monday morning AEST (which is Sunday afternoon/evening in many parts of the world). For now it will only be enabled on Linux64 Nightly builds (and also local developer builds) but

Re: Upcoming C++ standards meeting in Cologne

Hi Jason, You're definitely not the only one with this concern! Contracts and undefined behaviour have been a heated topic for quite some time, and concerns like yours have motivated proposals like this one [1] to address them. > We could use this only if Clang adds a mode that, contrary to the s

New Lockwise Password Manager UI now on autoland

Hi folks, I have just landed patches in bug 1560431 to enable the new Lockwise Password Manager by default in Nightly builds. We are planning to ship the feature in Firefox 70 and will enable it by default for all branches in bug 1560433 once QA has signed off on it. If you are a current user of

Re: [IMPORTANT] Submit your PI Requests for Skyline/Firefox 70 QA feature testing by July 19

Hi, This is a reminder that the deadline for PI Requests for Fx70 is *tomorrow*. Please submit your requests ASAP. Thank you, Tom On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 2:20 PM Tom Grabowski wrote: > Similar to what QA did for previous Firefox feature testing prioritization >

Request for feedback: Linux CI upgrade path - debian vs ubuntu

Hello, Currently the Mozilla CI pipeline for Linux(32/64) runs on a 'hacked' Ubuntu 16.04 LTS image, last updated sometime around 6-8 months ago. Meanwhile, the world has moved on to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (released April 2018) with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS approaching fast (projected April 2020). Within th

Re: Upcoming C++ standards meeting in Cologne

Botond, Presumably it's too late for the ongoing meeting, but I'm very concerned about C++20 assertions. The proposal says that in a release build, any contract violation is undefined behavior. Sounds reasonable enough. Every assertion adds potential UB. Hmm. ISTM this makes the feature very mu

Re: Workers no longer working on file URLs?

Thanks Dan! I've attempted to cover this by adding the following note to the Fx68 rel notes: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/68#Security Chris Mills MDN content lead & writers' team manager Mozilla Developer Network @chrisdav