After a two week hiatus, we’re back with Episode 20!
In this episode, I start off by demonstrating my new green screen1, and then dive right into reviewing some code to make the Lightweight Theme web installer work with e10s.
After that, I start investigating a mystery that my intern ran into a few days back, where for some reason, preloaded about:newtab pages were behaving really strangely when they were loaded in the content process. Strangely, as in, the pages wouldn’t do simple things, like reload when the user pressed the Reload button.
Something strange was afoot.
Do we solve the mystery? Do we figure out what’s going on? Do we find a solution? Tune in and find out!
References
Bug 653065 – Make the lightweight theme web installer ready for e10s
Bug 1181601 – Unable to receive messages from preloaded, remote newtab page – Notes
@mrrrgn hacks together a WebSocket server implementation in Go. To techno!
Although throughout the video, the lag between the audio and the video gets worse and worse – sorry about that. I’ll see what I can do to fix that for next time. ↩