I thought it wouldn't be as useful, since the Chromium build will use a
different profile so the differences will be even more..
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Mark Larson (Google) <m...@chromium.org>wrote:
> Can we disable them for Google Chrome builds, and leave them on for
> Chromium?
> We don't currently have an archive of debug builds, but we do have that for
> Chromium release builds.
>
> --Mark
>
> On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 16:16, John Abd-El-Malek <j...@chromium.org> wrote:
>
>> I was looking at the second top crasher in 2.0.166.1, and it turned out
>> that these users are running with --in-process-plugins. This turns off the
>> sandbox and runs plugins in the renderer process.
>> So far we've exposed all the internal command line switches to all users,
>> but I'm wondering if that has outlived its usefulness. We don't test
>> either mode on chromebot, while in-process-plugins doesn't even have any
>> tests. I don't think spending much development time on these modes is worth
>> the opportunity cost.
>>
>> The flip side is in the past they have been useful to have around, i.e.
>> when someone complains about a bug, we sometimes ask them to try these
>> modes.
>>
>> So I propose that we disable these flags in release builds, and if we want
>> to test on users, we can point them towards debug builds off the build
>> server. Obviously this is more work for them, but I think this avoids
>> distracting us with looking at modes that are only used by a minority of
>> users, and which we know are already broken. The bigger issue is why these
>> users used those modes. I think in the past we might have suggested it to
>> people if they had performance problems etc, but hopefully these are taken
>> care of by now, and if not, better to know it anyways by having these users
>> use the standard multi-process mode.
>>
>> Any strong opposition to this?
>>
>> >>
>>
>
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