Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #12

2017-06-08 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
Hi everyone, It has been a few weeks since I have given an update about our progress on reducing the amount of slow synchronous IPC messages that we send across our processes. This hasn't been because there hasn't been a lot to talk about, quite to the contrary, so much great work has happened he

Photon Engineering Newsletter #5

2017-06-08 Thread Justin Dolske
Via https://dolske.wordpress.com/2017/06/08/photon-engineering-newsletter-5/ Time for a solid update #5 ! So far the Photon project appears to be well on track — our work is scoped to what we think is achievable for Firefox 57, and we’re generally fixin

Re: Intent to unship: window.showModalDialog

2017-06-08 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
There was some recent activity around this in https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=840640. Tim, what's the latest status on this? Are you still working on it? On 06/08/2017 09:08 AM, Mike Taylor wrote: On 6/7/17 5:23 PM, Blake Kaplan wrote: 3 years ago (!) sicking commented in bug

Re: Intent to unship: window.showModalDialog

2017-06-08 Thread Mike Taylor
On 6/7/17 5:23 PM, Blake Kaplan wrote: > 3 years ago (!) sicking commented in bug 981796 [1] that we were removing > window.showModalDialog. The following year, I wrote a patch to disable it via > a pref at the same time as pushing some telemetry to try to track usage. We > saw more usage than we w