So I’ve had my eyes out, watching for bugfixes that are landing in the Firefox code base that will speed it up for our users. But I can’t do it alone. So I have a request: Have you seen a bugfix land recently that’ll likely impact Firefox’s performance in a positive way for our users? […]
In an attempt to fill the shoes of Ehsan’s excellent Quantum Flow Newsletters1, I’ve started to keep track of interesting performance bugs that have been tackled over the past little while. I don’t expect I’ll be able to put together such excellent essays on performance issues in Firefox, but I can certainly try to help […]
Another new thing that came out with Firefox 29 is a sexy new customization interface. We wanted to make UI customization something that anybody would feel comfortable doing, instead of something only a few mighty power users might do. The new customization mode is accessible by pressing the Menu Button (☰), and then clicking Customize. […]
While working on the ts_paint and tpaint regressions, we didn’t just stab blindly at the source code. We had some excellent tools to help us along the way. We also MacGyver‘d a few of those tools to do things that they weren’t exactly designed to do out of the box. And in some cases, we […]
Continued from Part 1. So we’d just gotten Talos data in, and it looked like we were regressing on ts_paint and tpaint right across the board. Speaking just for myself, up until this point, Talos had been a black box. I vaguely knew that Talos tests were run, and I vaguely understood that they measured […]