Firefox/Channels/Meetings/2026-08-06

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Channel Meeting Details

• Thursdays at 7:30am Pacific Time
• Past meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Channels/Meetings

Video/Teleconference Details

• Zoom Meeting ID: 536 097 768
• https://mozilla.zoom.us/j/536097768

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Attendees

Dsmith, abodea, pascalc, wapetridean, sbadau, csasca, atrif, mboldan, jgibbs, mchiorean, btot, dveditz, RyanVM, epopescu

Schedule Update

• 153
  • Desktop 153.0.3 and Android Fenix/Focus 153.0.3 planned dot release live @ 100% rollout
  • Desktop/Android planned dot release scheduled for next week
    • gtb on 2026-08-10, go-live on 2026-08-11 after QA sign-off
  • Firefox iOS 153.3 scheduled to start phased rollout at 03:00 UTC on 2026-08-09
• 154
  • Desktop 154.0b8 gtb tomorrow @ 100% rollout
  • Android 154.0b8 gtb tomorrow @ 99% rollout
  • Firefox iOS 154.0 branches and Firefox/Focus iOS 154.0 gtb tomorrow
  • Firefox Desktop/Android 154 Release Candidate builds on Aug 12, 2026
  • The deadline for Release Notes is 2026-08-11
• 155
  • Next week is the final week of Nightly
  • Merge Day and 155.0b1 build1 gtb on 2026-08-13

Release Quality Metrics

• https://bugdash.moz.tools/#tab.beta

Desktop Stability

Nightly

crash incidence (% of users experiencing a crash): 1.93% (-0.15pp compared to previous week)

Beta

crash incidence: 2.27% (+0.13pp)

Release

crash incidence: 1.06% (-0.05pp)

• Crash in shutdownhang | nsThread::Shutdown | nsThreadManager::ShutdownNonMainThreads
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1505660
  • took off with Firefox 153 release
  • similar for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1828066

QA

Nightly

• Recurring testing
  • Nightly 155 top site web compat testing - in progress. No concerns
  • WebRTC testing - completed on desktop side.
• New feature testing
  • Nightly 155 new feature testing in progress - reports will be sent by Aug 11 EOD.
    • QA-5483 - Monitor Agent - Missed the ready for QA milestone, QA proposed to move this ticket to next release.

Beta

• Recurring testing
  • Beta 154 functional testing - 3rd round - in progress. No concerns.
  • Beta 154 exploratory testing - in progress. No concerns.

Mobile

• Android
  • Build Signoffs Fenix & Focus
    • Beta 154.0b5 - status GREEN
    • Beta 154.0b6 - status GREEN
    • Beta 154.0b7 - status GREEN
    • RC 153.0.2 - status GREEN
    • RC 153.0.3 - status GREEN

** Feature Testing 

• • • [QA-5457] [Android] - Wayback Machine Support – Nightly 155 – status GREEN
    • [QA-5509] Show trending and recent search on the Homepage Search - Nightly Fx155 -status GREEN
    • [QA-4934] [Redesign on webcompat reporter- Beta Fx154 - status YELLOW

• iOS
  • Build Signoffs
    • Firefox iOS v153.3 RC 1 - status GREEN
  • Feature Testing
    • [QA-5456] iOS - Wayback machine Support - started
    • [QA-5422] iOS - Webcompat Reporting Tool - Nightly results sent Yellow
    • [QA-5364] iOS - AdBlockers - Nightly results sent Yellow
    • [QA-5363] Tab deeplink and screenshots improvements - results sent Green