On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 1:23 PM Mike Hommey <m...@glandium.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2021 at 11:57:18AM -0800, Doug Thayer wrote: > > If you don't spend any time on Nightly in Windows 10, please feel free to > > disregard this. > > > > tl;dr: we're sometimes creating the first window differently than usual, > so > > be on the lookout for breakages. > > > > On 2021-01-05, a change landed in Nightly which enabled the pre-XUL > skeleton > > UI [1]. This is a feature which allows us to create the first window and > > populate it with a non-interactive placeholder UI before we load > xul.dll. On > > some systems, this can mean we can give visual indication of Firefox > > launching as much as 15 seconds sooner than normal (loading xul.dll can > take > > a while). We're hoping this could be a big win for users who experience > very > > slow startups, and we also hope it will improve the overall snappiness of > > startup even on fast systems. > > What does the placeholder UI look like? > Colors and layout can vary, but the basic look is this: [image: image.png] _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
