Electrolysis/Tasks

This is a task list for the Electrolysis project, listing work areas, owners, mentors, etc. To volunteer for a project, please contact Benjamin Smedberg

Project	Owner	Mentor	Bug	ETA	Notes
Async canvas.drawWindow for remote content					Important for the Fennec UI
Implement readonly remoting of preferences (nsIPrefService/nsIPrefBranch)		bsmedberg			Relatively easy, good beginner project.
Remote all network access to the parent process	jduell	jst/biesi			Need smaller subtasks!
Asynchronous and remote resolution of history queries	sdwilsh	bz			At least the asynchronous part should land on mozilla-central
Statically check IPDL specs and C++ implementations	cjones
Dynamic fuzzing/checking of cross-process infrastructure		bsmedberg			Fuzzing for bad data, closed sockets, crashed processes
Systematic dynamic verification of C++ code implementing IPDL protocols		bsmedberg/cjones			It should be possible to generate pretty exhaustive unit tests from IPDL specs...
IPDL/runtime support for shared-memory buffers					Probably needed to make networking and canvas.drawWindow efficient
NPObject-over-IPC	bent
Session history for remote tabs		bz			Need to figure out what information the parent process/UI actually use/need
Link targeting for remote tabs	bz
<browser> and <tabbrowser> basically working on remote tabs		bz			May involve some significant rearch: data which is currently available synchronously will not be!
Refactor the Firefox context menu to work with remote tabs					Events don't bubble through the content tabs the same way... will probably involve collecting necessary information on the child side and passing it to the chrome process in a trusted manner.
Implement find-in-page for remote tabs
Implement session restore for remote tabs
Crash reporting + multiple processes		ted
Multi-process dashboard					Shows CPU/memory usage/etc for tab and plugin processes