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
The first meeting was held on July 21 2011 at 1PM PDT. There are no more scheduled meetings at the moment. If you would like to help, please ask around in #startup.
Current Work
Resources
- Startup Performance: Somewhat recent startup time tracking project
- Taras's telemetry blog post
Basic startup stats in your console
Enable the preference:
devtools.errorconsole.enabled
You will see something like
[timing] main: 488ms # When XRE_Main is called. Everything before this is
# loading libxul, static initializers, etc.
[timing] firstPaint: 1447ms # The first paint to the screen (most important one!)
[timing] sessionRestored: 1178ms
These numbers are all measured from startup. In this example, the first paint is 1447 ms from startup, not from main.