On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 8:10 AM, David Rajchenbach-Teller <dtel...@mozilla.com> wrote: > If I understand correctly, we are doubling both network and disk > activity (possibly CPU activity, too) for this purpose. Performance- and > battery-wise, that's not a very good idea.
"doubling" for the thumbnails we capture using this service, yes. We don't need to use this service to capture _all_ thumbnails - it was primarily designed to address requirement a) from Drew's original post (with some potential responsiveness benefits from d) being somewhat incidental). > We have been discussing with Nicolas Silva of alternative strategies for > capturing thumbnails without blocking the main thread. It seems > possible, but this requires synchronization with the Gfx team. This certainly seems worth exploring, but wouldn't address the use case of what to do about pages that contain sensitive information. Gavin _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
