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This is the development tracking page for the creation of a new memory information page, which is [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/abhishekchoudhary/3001 a Google's Summer of Code project].
This is the development tracking page for the creation of a new memory information page, which is [http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/project/google/gsoc2013/abhishekchoudhary/3001 a Google's Summer of Code project].


The idea is to create an interactive a page which will demystify memory statistics for people who are ''not'' involved in developing the browser, but are interested users, or independent web developers, who would like to know about the footprint that the browser creates under-the-hood.
The idea is to create an interactive page which will demystify memory statistics for people who are ''not'' involved in developing the browser, but are interested users, or independent web developers, who would like to know about the footprint that the browser creates under-the-hood.


The [https://github.com/abhishekchoudhary/fx-statistics project] will be developed as an extension using the Firefox Add-On SDK, and would mainly make use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The visualizations and interactions would be handled by the library [http://d3js.org/ D3.js].
The project will be developed as an extension using the Firefox Add-On (formerly Jetpack) SDK, and would mainly make use of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The visualizations and interactions would be handled by the library [http://d3js.org/ D3.js].


Here is the development chronology till date:
Here is the development chronology:


✔ Week 1 : [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week1 Summary] (Spoilers: Repository is initialized.)
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week1 Week 1]   (Summary: Repository initialized)


✔ Week 2 : [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week2 Summary] (Spoilers: Attempts at pulling the data fail miserably, then succeed.)
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week2 Week 2]   (Summary: First data-set pulled)


✔ Week 3 : [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week3 Summary] (Spoilers: A [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=893193 new bug] is discovered.)
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week3 Week 3]   (Summary: [http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=893193 New bug] discovered)


✔ Week 4 : [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week4 Summary] (Spoilers: First signs of life reported from the target library.)
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week4 Week 4]   (Summary: Target library running)


✔ Week 5 : [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week5 Summary] (Spoilers: Some data went missing, was recovered.)
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week5 Week 5]   (Summary: Inconsistencies in the data-set corrected)


✔ Week 6 : [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week6 Summary] (Spoilers: It is all coming together.)
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week6 Week 6]   (Summary: Preparing first build)


✔ Week 7 : [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week7 Summary] (Spoilers: The first build is up at [http://git.io/fx-stats git.io/fx-stats].)
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week7 Week 7]   (Summary: Prototype is up at [http://git.io/fx-stats git.io/fx-stats])


► Week 8 : [http://trystswithcode.quora.com/ In progress]
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week8 Week 8]   (Summary: Adding live updates)


✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week9 Week 9]  (Summary: Addressing memory leaks)


✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week10 Week 10] (Summary: Adding a time-slider and start/stop concept to live updates)


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✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week11 Week 11] (Summary: Implementing more visualizations)
 
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week12 Week 12] (Summary: Improving new visualizations)
 
✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week13 Week 13] (Summary: Re-factoring system calls to improve speed)


✔ [https://wiki.mozilla.org/SummerOfCode/2013/newMemoryPage/week14 Week 14] (Summary: v1.0.0 is bundled and uploaded)


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We still hope to implement:


✘ At least two more visualizations
Additional links:


✘ Live updates to the data
⦁ The [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4gxz1Wag9ISTzdKUTM5NEdyNWc original project proposal]


✘ Selective tracking of any metric as per user's selection
⦁ The [https://github.com/abhishekchoudhary/fx-statistics code repository]


✘ Read from saved JSON files
⦁ The [http://trystswithcode.quora.com/In-the-name-of-numbers wrap-up post] by the [http://abhishekchoudhary.com/ developer]


✘ Everything else from the original project [https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4gxz1Wag9ISTzdKUTM5NEdyNWc/edit?usp=sharing proposal], and then some
⦁ The extension on [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/fx-statistics/ AMO]
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