firefox
- merged Alexandre’s debug symbols branch into the nightly branch, and nightly snap builds have been happily uploading debug symbols to the Mozilla Symbols Server since then
- addressed a new round of review comments on the native messaging patch
- followed up on the native messaging portal call for testing (discourse.ubuntu.com and forum.snapcraft.io)
- 5 different extensions that make use of native messaging were successfully tested by several users
- the initial prompt for permission is too easy to accidentally dismiss, and changing that permission requires the use of a CLI tool that isn’t even installed by default, so we will need a UI for this
- of interest is the fact that with some minor tricks we managed to make the communication between the Firefox snap and the KeePassXC native host work when the latter is installed as a deb, as a snap, and as an AppImage
- prepared the 103.0.1 update
- committed an apparmor profile update for the bionic and focal debs to fix using the file portal
thunderbird
- fixed the snap’s crash reporter
- uploaded 102.1.1+build1 to kinetic
chromium
- updated beta then stable to 104.0.5112.79
- updated dev then beta to 105.0.5195.19
- updating dev to 106.0.5216.6
other
- graded a take-home test for the position of Ubuntu Desktop Software Engineer
- interviewed a candidate for the position of Software Engineer - Ubuntu Gaming Experience
- filed a bug against Launchpad for a regression when building 0ad snaps