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Revision as of 21:08, 26 June 2015

Overall Goal

Improve the performance of web content within the Firefox browsers.

Progress Updates

Communication

Communication Type Mechanism Audience
Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/vdjeric All
IRC #contentperf on irc.mozilla.org devs, PMs
Mailing list contentperf@mozilla.org devs, PMs

First Priorities (Q2 2015)

Scrolling Performance

Improve the scrolling performance of Firefox on three websites: Twitter, Facebook, and Yahoo search results.

Focus on two platforms: See Hardware Distribution List, Here.

Page Navigation Performance

Optimize the following page navigation experiences:

  • Entering a search term in the Firefox Homepage -> Yahoo search results listing
  • Entering a search term in the Firefox search box -> Yahoo search results listing
  • Yahoo search results listing -> an individual search result

Again, focusing on the Windows 8.1 laptop/tablet and a particular Android phone.

Implementation Strategy

Identify programs already in-flight (60fps program) and what problems those are designed to solve (elan)

  • 60 FPS:

Existing Benchmarks and Measures

Android
Top Issues, Firefox for Android
Full Query
ID Priority Summary Status Assigned to
942609 -- [meta] Reduce Fennec's storage impact: APK and data RESOLVED
947390 -- [meta][project] Improve page load performance RESOLVED
959776 P5 [meta][project] Improve startup performance RESOLVED
979119 P5 [meta][project] Firefox for Android power consumption RESOLVED
996062 -- [meta] Low-res and slow painting issues when scrolling subframes in Fennec RESOLVED Kartikaya Gupta (email:kats@mozilla.staktrace.com)
1158951 -- [meta] - Reduce memory RESOLVED

6 Total; 0 Open (0%); 6 Resolved (100%); 0 Verified (0%);



Desktop

Hardware

See hardware inventory, here.

Vladan's team should do detailed diagnosis/profiling and suggest

  • engineering projects
  • measurement strategies

People

  • Product sponsor/driver: bsmedberg
  • Engineering program manager: elan
  • Technical lead(s):
    • Android: Avi Halachmi
    • Windows: Vladan Djeric Aaron Klotz and I will look at Windows.