Fwd: [IMPORTANT] QA Firefox 63 feature testing pi-requests deadline is June 20

2018-06-18 Thread Tom Grabowski
Hi, Just a quick reminder to everybody that the deadline for PI Requests for Fx63 is this *Wednesday June 20th*. Thank you, Tom -- Forwarded message - From: Tom Grabowski Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 3:16 PM Subject: [IMPORTANT] QA Firefox 63 feature testing pi-requests deadline is

Re: Intent to move Activity Stream into its own process

2018-06-18 Thread Mike Conley
> > I am not sure about the specific AS work here, but for the general case, I > believe that Fission intends to cause a process switch anytime a tab > navigates to an unrelated origin, so this will also increase the frequency > of process switching. > Yep, this matches my understanding: we're goi

Re: Intent to move Activity Stream into its own process

2018-06-18 Thread J. Ryan Stinnett
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 3:20 PM Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: > If it *would* mean a process switch, we may want to take another look at > some of the bugs relating to those (process switches are currently > relatively rare) and re-prioritize them. > I am not sure about the specific AS work here, but f

Re: Intent to move Activity Stream into its own process

2018-06-18 Thread Kris Maglione
On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 09:19:18PM +0100, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: Hey, This sounds really interesting. However, wouldn't this mean that we will do a process switch for the tab's browser whenever we load a URL in the same tab that has AS in it? Or would you still intend to run the actual AS new

Re: Intent to move Activity Stream into its own process

2018-06-18 Thread Gijs Kruitbosch
Hey, This sounds really interesting. However, wouldn't this mean that we will do a process switch for the tab's browser whenever we load a URL in the same tab that has AS in it? Or would you still intend to run the actual AS new tab page in a "normal" tab process? If it *would* mean a proces

Re: Intent to move Activity Stream into its own process

2018-06-18 Thread Kris Maglione
+1 This should also have some memory benefits by preventing us from unnecessarily loading AS things into multiple content processes, like we do now. On Mon, Jun 18, 2018 at 03:35:01PM -0400, Mike Conley wrote: (posted on both dev-platform and firefox-dev. Please send replies to dev-platform)

Intent to move Activity Stream into its own process

2018-06-18 Thread Mike Conley
(posted on both dev-platform and firefox-dev. Please send replies to dev-platform) Hello all, Just sending a quick note to let you know that I've filed bug 1469072[1] to move Activity Stream into its own content process. This is something that Fission needs, but we're hoping to squeeze some perf

Re: OrangeFactor/Intermittent Failures View Update

2018-06-18 Thread Andrew Halberstadt
Thanks for all your work here, this looks much cleaner and easier to interpret. Looking forward to the future improvements you mentioned! For anyone bad at remembering URLs, you can get to this view by clicking the "Treeherder" logo in the top left of the main treeherder page. -Andrew On Wed, Ju

Re: How much do we care about pre-Nehalem performance?

2018-06-18 Thread hsivonen
On Saturday, March 31, 2018 at 6:49:25 AM UTC-7, Henri Sivonen wrote: > On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > > Do we have numbers of how our installed base is split between earlier > > than Nehalem/Silvermont/Bulldozer vs. Nehalem/Silvermont/Bulldozer or > > later? > > Filed ht

Re: Windows Address Sanitizer enabled on trunk

2018-06-18 Thread Randell Jesup
>Bug 1360120 on inbound enables Windows ASan builds and tests on trunk branches. ... >This platform has taken several years to stand up. Thank you to >everyone who helped out, especially Ehsan for getting this started and >Ting-Yu for working through a bunch of hurdles on automation. > >Happy sanit

[desktop] Bugs logged by Desktop Release QA in the last 8 days

2018-06-18 Thread Bogdan Maris
Hello, Here's the list of new issues found and filed by the Desktop Release QA team last two weeks. Additional details on the team's priorities last week, as well as the plans for the current week are available at: https://tinyurl.com/yc2qej9y Bugs logged by Desktop Release QA in the last 8 days