Firefox/win64
Firefox Desktop Project Review: Win64
Agenda
- Why Win64
- Our Users & Go To Market Plan
- Cross-Functional Requirements
- Issues & Risks
Decision-Makers: Johnathan Nightingale, Bob Moss, Chad Weiner, Gavin Sharp, Madhava Enros Project Proposal Contributors: Martin Best, Javaun Moradi, Benjamin Smedberg, Clint Talbert, Laura Thomson, Lawrence Mandel, Erin Lancaster
Why Win64
Speaker: Javaun Moradi
- Take advantage of a limited window of opportunity in gaming and performance browser apps
- Competitive browsers
- Offer our users a better experience with improvements in stability, performance, and security. 50% of Firefox Windows users currently run 64 bit
Our Users & Go-To Market Plan
- Timing
[proposed] Recommend kick-off for Fx37. Fx37 will be trunk as of 11/25 and ships on 03/31/15.
Cross-Functional Requirements
- RelEng
- Automated Testing (RelEng/Ateam)
- Reliability Testing (Desktop QE)
Achieve or exceed reliability parity with 32-bit (less than 1 crash per ~100 ADU).
- Perf Benchmarks
Achieve or exceed performance parity with 32-bit. Clint recommends not gating on adding more perf tests and add them incrementally.
- Performance Criteria
- Reliability Testing
- Hardware: shouldn't be a problem, ctalbert is double checking on number of modern 64bit machines in-house
- We'll need some coordination with Romanian team
- Performance Testing
- Graphics Drivers Impact
No major impact to blacklists anticipated. From Milan, "It’s possible that WOW64 is somehow savings us from problems that we’d now start seeing with a native 64-bit Firefox, but I doubt that it would be any significant number of them." Real-world, variety testing will ultimately reveal