Features/Desktop/Firefox/Improve Responsiveness with Memory Reductions

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Status

Improve Responsiveness with Memory Reductions
Stage	Shipped
Status	Complete
Release target	Firefox 7
Health	OK
Status note	The big win is completed for 7. Remaining bugs can be tracked as bugs and not as true dependencies on this feature page.

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Team

Product manager	Asa Dotzler
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Lead engineer	Nicholas Nethercote
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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Over long sessions, Firefox memory usage grows enough to cause significant responsiveness problems. We need to improve our memory usage over long sessions. This feature falls primarily in the Experience category (from the "Discover, Experience, and Connect" vision statement.)

2. Users & use cases

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3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

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Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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Stage 3: Planning

7. Implementation plan

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8. Reviews

Security review

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Privacy review

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Localization review

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Accessibility

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Quality Assurance review

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Operations review

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Stage 4: Development

9. Implementation

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Stage 5: Release

10. Landing criteria

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Feature details

Priority	P1
Rank	999
Theme / Goal	`
Roadmap	`
Secondary roadmap	`
Feature list	Desktop
Project	Responsiveness
Engineering team	JavaScript

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Team status notes

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Security	sec-review-complete	no review
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