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=== General Media Playback Logging Steps ===
=== General Media Playback Logging Steps ===


1) Open a tab and visit about:logging<br />
Install Firefox Nightly on the test device and open the browser. The test device should be a clean system that has not had Firefox installed on it prior. If the test device does have existing Firefox installs, open Firefox Nightly using a command line console with the -p command line parameter. This will open the profile manager window. Create a new profile for testing purposes, which can be deleted after testing is complete.
 
1) Open the browser with your test profile.
 
2) Open a tab and visit https://profiler.firefox.com/ and enable the Firefox Profiler Button. In the dropdown menu on the button, select the 'Media' setting.
 
2) Open a tab and visit about:logging<br />
2) In the 'Logging preset:' drop down select 'Media Playback'<br />
2) In the 'Logging preset:' drop down select 'Media Playback'<br />
3) Click 'Start Logging' at the top of the page<br />
3) Click 'Start Logging' at the top of the page<br />
4) Reproduce the issue <br/ >
4) Reproduce the issue <br/ >
5) Go back to the about:logging page, click 'Stop logging', a new tab will open <br />
5) Go back to the about:logging page and click 'Stop logging'. (In a moment, a new performance profile tab will open.)<br />
6) Share the profile, with the button at the top right of this new tab (either upload or send privately)<br />
6) Share the profile (top right of the performance tab) and copy the resulting url.<br />
 
Share this url in Bugzilla for engineers to analyze.


These instructions in video: https://paul.cx/public/about-logging-presentation.webm
These instructions in video: https://paul.cx/public/about-logging-presentation.webm
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