(Cross-post: m-d-platform and firefox-dev)
Hello,
(If you don't care about turning off e10s, you can stop reading.)
At the end of last week I landed changes in
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548941
that may affect how you turn off e10s. The broad aim was to ensure that
we stop grandfathering users into a non-e10s configuration which they
should not run on a day-to-day basis, given that it receives little to
no testing and is less secure.
Specifically:
- Support for the force-enable/force-disable prefs has been removed
completely.
- The browser.tabs.remote.autostart pref being set to false will no
longer turn off e10s in the following case (ie if **all** of these are
true):
1. you're running desktop Firefox
2. you're running an 'official' build (MOZ_OFFICIAL build define;
basically anything other than local builds)
3. you're not running our automated tests (specifically,
MOZ_DISABLE_NONLOCAL_CONNECTIONS is not set).
The autostart pref will thus continue to turn e10s on/off for any of the
following):
- non-desktop-Firefox (comm-central, Fennec, ...)
- for automated tests (so --disable-e10s switches in ./mach will
continue to work as you expect, and tests that always run with e10s off
will continue to do so)
- on your own, local, non-MOZ_OFFICIAL builds
Longer-term, I'd like to move those cases away from the pref one way or
another, and remove the pref altogether.
If you need to disable e10s for manual tests on an official build, you
can use the (pre-existing) MOZ_FORCE_DISABLE_E10S environment variable.
I expect this to be uncontroversial given the long-ish discussion about
e10s and automated test support in general in m-d-platform prior to this
happening. If you spot issues with the implementation, please do file
follow-up bugs.
Thanks,
Gijs
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