{"id":1828,"date":"2012-03-08T11:47:36","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/?p=1828"},"modified":"2012-03-08T11:47:36","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T00:47:36","slug":"testing-the-top-100-add-ons-for-memory-leaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2012\/03\/08\/testing-the-top-100-add-ons-for-memory-leaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Testing the top 100 add-ons for memory leaks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/2012\/03\/07\/memshrink-progress-week-38\/\">mentioned<\/a> that the plan for <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=730737\">testing the top 100 add-ons for memory leaks<\/a> had hit a snag &#8212; our list is that of the top 100 <em>installed<\/em> add-ons, rather than the top 100 <em>enabled<\/em> add-ons, and the latter is what we really want.<\/p>\n<p>However, after some thought, I&#8217;ve concluded that there is likely to be a lot of overlap between the two lists.\u00a0 For example, I&#8217;d be surprised if any of the top 50 enabled add-ons are not in the top 100 installed add-ons list.\u00a0 Furthermore, this kind of testing will never give perfect coverage anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore, there&#8217;s little point in delaying the testing while we wait for a better top 100 list.\u00a0 If you are interested in helping, please jump in.\u00a0 And if you contact me privately I&#8217;ll be able to suggest some add-ons that are towards the more popular end of the top 100 list.\u00a0 Thanks, and apologies for any confusion I have caused!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I mentioned that the plan for testing the top 100 add-ons for memory leaks had hit a snag &#8212; our list is that of the top 100 installed add-ons, rather than the top 100 enabled add-ons, and the latter is what we really want. However, after some thought, I&#8217;ve concluded that there is likely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4546,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/nnethercote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}