Platform/Features/RevampAboutMemory

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Status

Revamp about:memory
Stage Shipped
Status Complete
Release target Firefox 6
Health OK
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Team

Product manager Asa Dotzler
Directly Responsible Individual Nicholas Nethercote
Lead engineer Nicholas Nethercote
Security lead `
Privacy lead `
Localization lead `
Accessibility lead `
QA lead Vlad Ghetiu (irc: vladg)
UX lead `
Product marketing lead `
Operations lead `
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Open issues/risks

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Stage 1: Definition

1. Feature overview

Greatly improve about:memory.

2. Users & use cases

about:memory should be the first place anyone looks for any problem or question related to memory usage. (In particular, it should subsume OS tools like 'top', 'ps' and the Windows Task Manager.) If it doesn't answer the question, then more advanced tools can be used.

In particular, it will be very useful in bug reports. People often currently say vague things like "Firefox was using 1GB of memory" without explaining how they got that number. By cutting + pasting about:memory things will be a lot clearer.

Goals

  • Cutting + pasting the contents of about:memory into a text box should produce highly readable output.
  • Eventually, most interesting parts of memory (eg. the used part of the heap) should be marked as being owned by a particular part of the system.
  • Per-tab (or something like that) information.

3. Dependencies

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4. Requirements

  • Stage 1: bug 633653.

After that, much of it can be done gradually, in a bug-by-bug fashion.

Non-goals

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Stage 2: Design

5. Functional specification

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6. User experience design

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
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Roadmap Firefox Desktop
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Feature list Desktop
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Engineering team Desktop front-end

Team status notes

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Quality assurance Ready to land in Firefox 6 `
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