Changes
I’m going to write something that will probably surprise you. I say this because it sure surprised me when I realized I was even considering what I’m doing a possibility. I’m going to be moving on to...
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Social Plugins’ Memory Usage
Dietrich recently posted about the memory usage of social plugins, and I found the results rather surprising because, at least in the case of Facebook, I didn’t think it ever loaded enough code to...
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Startup Time in the Wild Take Two
This week, I spent some time looking at some real life profiles that were sent into us by users seeing startup time in the minutes. The tests were ran just like I ran the test on my profile: all...
View ArticleStartup Time in the Wild Take Three
Over a week ago, I collected the data I said I was going to look at last time. I finally had a chance to look at the data (startup times with and without add-ons for two profiles on the latest version...
View ArticleChanges to how Places stores data incoming
Sometime soon after the beta 8 code freeze, the Places team will be merging the Places branch into mozilla-central. There are a lot of changes we’ve been working on, the most important of which is some...
View ArticleUsing Xperf to Track I/O
Back in December when I was working on the Places branch, I was using Xperf quite a bit to try and figure out why we were regressing certain performance tests. Xperf is an incredibly powerful tool, but...
View ArticleBuilding Chef DK on FreeBSD 11.0
With the help of tBunnyMan’s post, I managed to get the Chef DK running inside a jail on my FreeBSD box. After you’ve done your initial setup in the jail, you’ll want to also setup sudo in your jail...
View ArticleBetter SQLite Memory Reporting Coming to a Nightly Near You
I just landed bug 575667 into mozilla-central which adds more detailed reporting about the memory used by SQLite. Some people have been complaining to me that SQLite is using an awful lot of memory...
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Startup Time in the Wild
Over the weekend I spent some serious time with my computer running a bunch of tests with standalone talos in 11 different situations. First, a disclaimer: these tests were only designed to give some...
View ArticleBugzilla Helper 0.4.2 Released
You can go grab it on AMO or wait for Thunderbird to tell you to update. This contains a one-line work around that makes the add-on work after the semi-recent change in the API. You can read all the...
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