For mobile Firefox, a very important user flow is when a user wants to quickly check a webpage from another app (e.g. email, twitter). Since Android very frequently swaps Firefox out when it is hidden, it is imperative that we start quickly. Our single-minded goal is instantaneous startup!
Meetings
A meeting is scheduled for July 21 2011 at 1PM PDT.
The agenda:
- Decide on a way to track progress on Bugzilla.
- What are our best profiling tools on Android?
- Telemetry (even using it locally) can be useful to measure progress
- There is a way to dump important startup points to the console
- oprofile?
- What are the high priority bugs we need to fix?
- Brainstorm in http://etherpad.mozilla.com:9000/startupshrink
- Assign bugs and get things done!
Resources
- Startup Performance: Somewhat recent startup time tracking project
- Taras's telemtry blog post