Non-e10s is such a different environment that I don't think we have any hope of keeping it working without running the full test suite in that mode and I don't think anyone wants to do that. Now that this has started breaking I think it is actively harmful to our users for us to allow them to disable e10s.
On Wed, Jun 10, 2020 at 11:30 AM Gijs Kruitbosch <gijskruitbo...@gmail.com> wrote: > (Copied to fx-dev; Replies to dev-platform please.) > > Hello, > > Just over a year ago, I started a discussion[0] about our support for > disabling e10s. The outcome of that was that we removed support for > disabling e10s with a pref on Desktop Firefox with version 68, except > for use from automation. We kept support for using the environment > variable. [1] > > Last week, we released Firefox 77, which turned out to break all > webpages sent using compression (like gzip) if you had disabled e10s > using this environment variable. [2] > > So here we are again. I'd like to propose we also stop honouring the > environment variable unless we're running tests in automation. We > clearly do not have sufficient test coverage to guarantee basic things > like "the browser works", it lacks security sandboxing, and a number of > other projects require it (fission, gpu process, socket process, ...), > so I think it's time to stop supporting this configuration at all. > > I hope to make this change for the 79 cycle. I'm open to arguments > either way about what to do for 78 esr (assuming the patch for 79 turns > out to be simple; the work to remove the pref had a number of annoying > corner-cases at the time). > > Please speak up if you think that this plan needs adjusting. > > ~ Gijs > > > [0] > > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/cJMzxi7_PmI/Pi1IOg_wCQAJ > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548941 > [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1638652 > _______________________________________________ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.org > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/firefox-dev > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
