I've mentioned this at the engineering meeting, but thought it worth a note here just to ensure everyone is aware:
Bug 870100 enabled use of the background thumbnail service in Firefox desktop, which uses a <browser remote=true> to do thumbnailing of pages in the background. That means that desktop Firefox now makes use of E10S content processes. They have a short life time (one page load) and are generally triggered by opening about:newtab when thumbnails are missing or out of date (>2 days old). This has exposed some e10s crashes that previously weren't exposed on desktop. I've filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899758 to track them - please hang any other such crashes off that bug. If you're working in a component that has e10s-related crashes, please fix them :) (Bug 891218 is also planning to make use of content processes for some Social-related functionality. Those remote processes will be longer-lived, typically having the same lifetime as the parent process.) Gavin _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
