Hello developers, A couple months ago, Andreas Bovens and I scoured AMO and the Web looking for extensions and articles that offered preferences tweaks in the name of performance. Our hope was to put some of these tweaks through user testing to see if they made any difference in Firefox performance (actual or perceived.) Unfortunately, most of those extensions and articles were junk and often included tweaks to prefs that don't even exist any more.
Today I'm hoping you all can help by taking a look over your area of code for any preferences that might impact actual or perceived performance and checking to see if they are still good values for today's browser and today's web. It's probably especially valuable to think about pref values that were set a long time ago. If you have preferences where some science (user studies) would help identify the most appropriate value, I can help with that. Otherwise, if you see a value that's no longer ideal, feel free to update it without further ado. For an example of the kind of pref change that can have real user impact, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1283302 Thanks for your time, - Asa _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
