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View ArticleThis 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleOver 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...
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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...
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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...
View ArticleStatus 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...
View ArticleSearchWords 0.3
SearchWords 0.3 includes a complete redesign of the address bar code fixing issues with multiple keywords and includes support for the <SearchForm> and <Alias> MozSearch elements. Several...
View ArticleMicrosummary Manager 0.5 Alpha
Microsummary Manager 0.5 Alpha is a preview release of the next version which includes numerous new features and moves all key features to a new XPCOM component for increased performance and easier...
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