Posted in snappy on February 27th, 2012 6 Comments »
SUMO Problem investigation There was an increase in negative feedback regarding Firefox 11 beta relative to Firefox 10 beta on SUMO. Cheng and me will be analyzing SUMO reports to see if we can find a concrete regression or two in Firefox 11. (One of the reasons this update is late is because I was [...]
Posted in snappy on February 22nd, 2012 25 Comments »
Recently there have been a number of blog posts on optimizations possible via Local StorageAPI. When Microsoft, Google, Amazon and a number of others aggressively adopt a new feature, people notice. The optimization is to use Local Storage to reduce network requests and/or payload size. This should result in a more responsive experience for the [...]
Posted in snappy on February 16th, 2012 7 Comments »
Canadians and their Profilers Much like eating bacon, writing profiling tools is a favourite Canadian pastime. Unfortunately, while today’s meeting had more Canadians than last time, a few the usual suspects are still busy with Android bugs this week and weren’t able to attend. There are no updates on about:jank or our profiler this week. [...]
Posted in snappy on February 9th, 2012 7 Comments »
The meeting was short this time because all of the participating people in the Toronto office conspired be busy or on vacation today. Our UX team helped us decide to turn on tabs-on-demand + do tab restore by default, Bug 711193. This change will make interacting with the browser more responsive after startup, help MemShink and [...]
Posted in snappy on February 7th, 2012 Comments Off
We cancelled last week’s snappy meeting due to Perf/Snappy workweek + FOSDEM. See Jared’s post for a summary of the workweek, I’ll mention the rest below. We figured out a strategy for avoiding blocking DOM Storage IO (use scriptblocker to async preload relevant dom storage. Do async writeback to commit). We have a plan for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on February 2nd, 2012 1 Comment »
As the outside temperature reached -10C, the DIY heating system at hackerspace.be proved insufficient. On Wednesday the Perf/Snappy workweek was relocated to BetaGroup Coworking Brussels. We’ll be here until FOSDEM. Betagroup Coworking Brussels is an industrial-strength coworking space with lots of desk space, internet, kitchen, ping-pong and a bunch of heavy metal…
