1457266 - Remove pref off of Variable Fonts once Nightly becomes Firefox 62

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement, P2)

Description

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Bug 1455785 disabled Variable Fonts support after Early Beta in Firefox 61.  We need to remove that condition from the prefs file in Firefox 62 so Fonts can ride the train all the way to Release.

Comment 1

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Hi Jonathan, Can you land the patch to enable Variable Fonts by default this week?

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Attachment: Remove the EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER condition for default-enabling the font-variations pref, and let it ride the train

Comment 3

[Maire Reavy [:mreavy]]

Comment on attachment 8974671 [details] [diff] [review]
Remove the EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER condition for default-enabling the font-variations pref, and let it ride the train

lgtm - thanks!

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Was there an intent to ship sent to dev-platform?

Comment 5

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

There was https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mozilla.dev.platform/MO2S2FepLPk/discussion (originally aimed at shipping in Fx61; later the decision was taken to hold off until Fx62).

Comment 6

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/mozilla-inbound/rev/ba2887957c56
Remove the EARLY_BETA_OR_EARLIER condition for default-enabling the font-variations pref, and let it ride the train. r=mreavy

Comment 7

[Dorel Luca [:dluca]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/ba2887957c56

Comment 8

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Flagging for qe-verify as this is the bug that lets Variable Fonts support ride the train to release (Fx62).

Note that the feature was already preffed on for Nightly, so this does not immediately change anything on the nightly channel, but it removes the condition so that the pref will not turn off automatically during beta.

Comment 9

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop QA [:csasca]]

I verified that the pref. for Variable Fonts is correctly set on Firefox Nightly 62.0a1 (2018-05-12) and on latest Firefox Nightly 63.0a1 (2018-07-15).