TPE Necko/Projects/Socket Process Isolation

Team members

EM: Shian-Yow Wu

Tech Lead: Shih-Chiang Chien

Implementation Team:

• Cervantes Yu
• Kershaw Chang
• Shih-Chiang Chien

Scope

• M0
  • Prototyping with UDPSocket
  • Performance study on the additional process
  • Architecture design for HTTP/HTTPS adaption
• M1 - Firefox60 Nightly
  • Prepare and land socket process behind a pref, default off
  • Prepare and land telemetry for the socket process shell study
• M2 - Firefox61 Nightly
  • Shell study on the socket process overhead on Beta 60
  • Prepare and land HTTP/HTTPS modification behind a pref
  • Default enable socket process on Nightly 61
• M3 - Firefox62 Nightly
  • Continue landing HTTP/HTTPS modification and bugfix
  • Prepare and land telemetry for the HTTP/HTTPS shell study
• M4 - Firefox63 Nightly
  • Shell study on the performance of the new HTTP/HTTPS architecture on Beta 62
  • Default enable new HTTP/HTTPS architecture on Nightly 63

Evaluation

Sandboxing TCP/UDP socket in a separate process

Project Dashboard

Meta Bugs

Full Query

ID	Summary	Priority	Status
1322426	[meta] Move all TCP/UDP network operations into a dedicated process	P2	NEW

1 Total; 1 Open (100%); 0 Resolved (0%); 0 Verified (0%);