Snappy Oct 18, 2012 Minutes

Actions

• Gavin will write down Q3 Q4 frontend goal
  • No front-end Q4 goal
• Outreach with Twitter on bug 784920, twitter is causing sync layout which harm the browser when the tab is in the background
  • taras hasn't been successful, lmandel will try another contact
• bug 792527 - bas to add Telemetry
  • lmandel to follow up
• CSS animation start jank - ping david baron (bug 753139)
  • lmandel to follow up with dbaron
• wlach to determine what time he has to work on Eideticker for desktop this quarter
  • wlach: unfortunately it's looking like I probably won't have time to work on this project this quarter. :( (stuck with B2G stuff)

Incoming

• Project Squeaky and associated feature Make Add-ons Awesome
  • lmandel will attend the kick off meeting next Tuesday
• Matt Woodrow fixed some tab jank bug 750417
• bug 801509 tab draggin regression on mac, qa needed to narrow regression
  • lmandel to follow up with ashughes
• bug 772552 add telemetry for number of saved pings loaded at startup
• New Flash hang UI project for Windows

Projects

Tab switch performance - jrmuizel

Todo this week

• land full tab switch telemetry on aurora to allow for comparison of jeff's fix

Profiler - jrmuizel/BenWa/Ehsan (and more)

Results from the past week

• Working but buggy startup profiling

Chrome hang reports - vlad

Results from the past week

• Confirmed proxy issues gone in October version of Nightly (bug 769764 and bug 787757)
• Checking if any driver versions are cause of BitBlt gfx chrome hangs: Looks like they aren't.. most common driver in gfx hangs is Nvidia's nvd3dum 8.16.11.9062 from 2009, and it's only present in 6% of gfx hangs
• check if we have image memory reporting

Move DOM Storage off main thread - vlad

Results from the past week

• bug 802920: Adding LocalStorage performance measurements for comparing before & after of refactor
• bug 705616: Adding flat-file storage backend for LocalStorage, will try to integrate with existing LS code