Category Archives: Firefox
Status Update: January 23
Progress Began working towards this quarter’s main-thread IO reduction goal by creating an asynchronous version of nsIContentPrefService::getPref. We currently use getPref every onLocationChange to check if there’s a page zoom setting saved for the site being loaded. This check happens … Continue reading
This Week in Perf
Progress Posted some findings to bug 496217. Turns out we will only load the spell check dictionaries during startup if the user’s homepage or restored session contain spell check enabled inputs. I’ve posted some possible next steps in the bug, … Continue reading
This Week in Perf
Progress Put up a patch on bug 507073 for review – it combines the two binary browser components we ship into a single library. Started work on bug 520334. Next Steps Get review for bug 520284 and 522842. Wrap up … Continue reading
Over One Billion¹ Served
A little over a year ago, some of my fellow mozillians and I decided we wanted to have a place to host websites and e-mail, stick off-site backups, and perform other disk or CPU intensive things not typically permitted in … Continue reading
This Week in Perf
Progress Landed bug 499123 on the 1.9.2 branch. Bug 475289 landed on trunk for a ~20ms improvement with the currently shipped plugin set. Reduced the number of getService calls in the microsummary service. Wrote a patch to get the search … Continue reading
This Week in Perf
Progress Landed bug 514407 – should help with startups where we rebuild the search plugin cache (first start, after updates) and with UI responsiveness after managing or installing new plugins. Bug 475289 has been updated, hopefully getting review this week. … Continue reading
This Week in Perf
Picking up from the last post, here’s what I’ve been up to for my part of the startup improvement project: Progress Landed bug 499123 – the effects on Ts as seen by Talos were mostly inconclusive (though were trending in … Continue reading
This Week in Perf – Aug. 14th Edition
The Firefox team has recently started using small, well-scoped projects as a way to speed development and to better split up and coordinate tasks among many developers. Since these projects are typically small and have well defined goals, we’re also … Continue reading
So…
<gavin_> huh <gavin_> mconnor: I don’t understand 347402 comment 29 <gavin_> the go button issue was my fault? * rob_strong can’t imagine gavin ever doing that <gavin_> hrm, actually, the problem is in http://screwedbydesign.com/mozilla/rc.diff but apparently not in any of … Continue reading