{"id":2278,"date":"2012-06-15T14:36:27","date_gmt":"2012-06-15T19:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/?p=2278"},"modified":"2023-12-20T16:25:13","modified_gmt":"2023-12-20T21:25:13","slug":"gecko-profiler-now-works-in-thunderbird-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikeconley.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/15\/gecko-profiler-now-works-in-thunderbird-daily\/","title":{"rendered":"Gecko Profiler now works in Thunderbird Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the first steps to making software snappier is knowing where the bottlenecks are. For Thunderbird, finding those bottlenecks has been hard – we haven’t had any tools to make drilling down to the slow bits easy.<\/p>\n

Until now.<\/p>\n

The platform folks have developed a really awesome profiler tool<\/a>, and it’s been working really nicely in Firefox for some time now.<\/p>\n

This past week, I spent a few hours making it work in Thunderbird.<\/p>\n

If you’ve got a recent Daily of Thunderbird around<\/a>, you can try it out right now.<\/p>\n

How to bask in the glory of this awesome tool<\/h3>\n

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  1. Make sure your Daily is recent. Anything built from today onwards should work.<\/li>\n
  2. Install this add-on. It’s restartless!<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Check out your status bar. There should be two little panels there – “Disabled”, and “Dump Profile”<\/li>\n
  4. Click on “Disabled” to switch the profiler into “Enabled” mode. Once you do that, it starts recording.<\/li>\n
  5. Do some stuff, like check your mail…or do a search.<\/li>\n
  6. Click on “Dump Profile”.<\/li>\n
  7. A content tab will open that will show you profiling data gathered up to that point.<\/li>\n
  8. Click on “Enabled” to disable the profiler – this will clear out the recording, to let you do a new one.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The web app that lets you browse the profile data is pretty sophisticated – you can read the skinny about it here.<\/a><\/p>\n

    Cooking with gas<\/h3>\n

    On Windows or OSX, do an optimized, non-debug build of comm-central with the –enable-profiling flag set. Now you get super <\/em>rich profiling data. Now you’re cookin’ with gas.<\/p>\n

    So hopefully this will be useful in making Thunderbird better, faster and stronger.<\/p>\n

    Big thanks to Benoit Gerard for his help and guidance porting the add-on, and the platform team for creating such a badass tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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