Asynchronous Location Bar

• Development Status: - Regression Fixing
• Feature Testing: - Complete (08-04-2009)

Overview

Move the disk reading off of the main thread for the location bar, as well as the search matching. Should result in a more responsive location bar.

Contacts

Developer: Shawn Wilsher (sdwilsh)
QA: Anthony Hughes (ashughes), Tracy Walker (tracy)

Things We Test

List the tests we have where applicable:

• Unit tests
• Manual Tests
  • query
  • Functional testing only
  • Need testing against performance with large profiles
• Mozmill - 1 of 77 [1.3%]
  • tracy- assigned to get BFT's written (11 test cases)
  • Address Field and Go Button
• Code Coverage
  • Places - Functional [83.1%] | Linear [85.7%]

Things We Don't Test

• Performance
  • Tracking bug: bug 479528

Reference

• Sprint page for the feature
• bug 455555