Performance Tools Newsletter (Q3 2021)
As the Perf-Tools team, we are responsible for the Firefox Profiler. This newsletter gives an overview of the new features and improvements we’ve done in Q3 2021. This is our … Read more
Performance Sheriff Newsletter (September 2021)
In September there were 174 alerts generated, resulting in 23 regression bugs being filed on average 6.4 days after the regressing change landed. Welcome to the September 2021 edition of … Read more
Performance Sheriff Newsletter (August 2021)
In August there were 126 alerts generated, resulting in 16 regression bugs being filed on average 3.6 days after the regressing change landed. Welcome to the August 2021 edition of … Read more
Reducing the Overhead of Profiling Firefox Sleeping Threads
The Firefox Profiler and its overhead Firefox includes its own profiler: Visit profiler.firefox.com to enable it, and the user documentation is available from there. The main advantages compared with using … Read more
Performance Sheriff Newsletter (July 2021)
In July there were 105 alerts generated, resulting in 20 regression bugs being filed on average 6.6 days after the regressing change landed. Welcome to the July 2021 edition of … Read more
Performance in progress
In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malysz … Read more
Performance Sheriff Newsletter (June 2021)
In June there were 119 alerts generated, resulting in 22 regression bugs being filed on average 3.7 days after the regressing change landed. Welcome to the June 2021 edition of … Read more
What’s new in Perfherder?
Since last “What’s new in Perfherder” article a lot has changed. Our development team is making progresses towards automating the regression detection process. This post will cover the various improvements … Read more
Bringing you a snappier Firefox
In this blog post we’ll talk about what the Firefox Performance team set out to achieve for 2021 and the Firefox 89 release last month. With the help of many … Read more
Performance Tools Newsletter (H1 2021)
As the Perf-Tools team, we are responsible for the Firefox Profiler. This tool is built directly into Firefox to understand the program runtime and analyze it to make it faster. … Read more
Performance Sheriff Newsletter (May 2021)
In May there were 198 alerts generated, resulting in 27 regression bugs being filed on average 4.5 days after the regressing change landed. Welcome to the May 2021 edition of … Read more
Performance Sheriff Newsletter (April 2021)
In April there were 187 alerts generated, resulting in 34 regression bugs being filed on average 6 days after the regressing change landed. Welcome to the April 2021 edition of … Read more