Counter-intuitively, having multiple content processes may use less memory than
taking screenshots per tab. Especially if we use the same COW forking FFOS uses
the overhead of a content processes should be very small, certainly less than a
high resolution screenshot kept around. Not sure do
I guess we can add a command line option to our executable that calls the
function and prints the results and exits and then invoke ourselves to do this
in a new process and parse the output. What a silly bug.
Thanks,
Andreas
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On Mar 26, 2015, at 07:03, Daniel Stenberg
Is the threat model for all of these permissions significant enough to warrant
the breakage? Popups for example are annoying, but a spoofed origin to take
advantage of whitelisted popups seems not terribly dangerous.
Thanks,
Andreas
On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:27 PM, Anne van Kesteren
On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:33 PM, andreas@gmail.com wrote:
Is the threat model for all of these permissions significant enough to
warrant the breakage?
What breakage do you envision?
I can no longer unblock popups
On Mar 6, 2015, at 6:18 PM, Ehsan Akhgari ehsan.akhg...@gmail.com wrote:
On 2015-03-06 1:14 PM, andreas@gmail.com wrote:
On Mar 6, 2015, at 5:52 PM, Anne van Kesteren ann...@annevk.nl wrote:
On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 6:33 PM, andreas@gmail.com wrote:
Is the threat model for all
Would it make sense to check in some of the libraries we build that we very
rarely change, and that don’t have a lot of configure dependencies people
twiddle with? (icu, pixman, cairo, vp8, vp9). This could speed up build times
in our infrastructure and for developers. This doesn’t have to be
I am using Nightly on Yosemite and power use is pretty atrocious. The battery
menu tags Firefox Nightly as a significant battery hog, and I can confirm this
from the user experience perspective as well. My battery time is a fraction of
using Chrome for the same tasks.
Not every kind of
Are we using the discrete GPU when Chrome is not?
That was my first guess as well. As far as I can tell we fall back to
integrated GPU just fine, according to the Activity Monitor. Even App Nap seems
to work when FF is occluded. Yet, our avg energy impact is 5x of Chrome.
Andreas
- Kyle
What happens when a user types letters into the Google search box we ship by
default in Firefox?
Thanks,
Andreas
On Oct 27, 2014, at 12:08 AM, Karl Dubost kdub...@mozilla.com wrote:
In Firefox 2.2.0, each time you try to enter a letter, there are a list of
icons displayed which seems to
On Oct 27, 2014, at 1:16 AM, Karl Dubost kdub...@mozilla.com wrote:
Andreas,
Le 27 oct. 2014 à 08:15, Andreas Gal andreas@gmail.com a écrit :
What happens when a user types letters into the Google search box we ship by
default in Firefox?
Do you mean desktop? Sorry I
, Nicholas Nethercote n.netherc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Andreas Gal andr...@mozilla.com wrote:
I would like to nominate image/src/* and in particular its class hierarchy
which completely doesn’t make any sense what so ever. imgRequest,
imgIRequest, we got it all
is no longer the expert there; I took over a bunch of his
work to clean it up a year or two ago, and Seth is the benevolent dictator
now and has done some good cleanup work on it as well.
Cheers,
Josh
On 2014-10-16 6:45 PM, Andreas Gal wrote:
The code is really bizarre, needlessly
On Jun 18, 2014, at 2:03 AM, Vivien Nicolas vnico...@mozilla.com wrote:
On 06/17/2014 09:18 PM, James Burke wrote:
On 6/17/14, 10:08 AM, Vivien Nicolas wrote:
That's true. Actually there are many other hacks that depends on the fact
that application are certified. So even if I would like
There are likely two causes here.
First, until we have APZ enabled its very unlikely that we can ever maintain a
high frame-rate scrolling on low-end hardware. OMTC is a prerequisite for APZ
(async pan/zoom). Low end hardware is simply not fast enough to repaint and
buffer-rotate with 60FPS.
Please read my email again. This kind of animation cannot be rendered with high
FPS by any engine. It's simply conceptually expensive and inefficient for the
DOM rendering model. We will work on matching other engines if we are slightly
slower than we could be, but you will never reach solid
I think we should shift the conversation to how we actually animate here.
Animating by trying to reflow and repaint with 60fps is just a bad idea. This
might work on very high end hardware, but it will cause poor performance on the
low-end Windows notebooks people buy these days. In other
You can’t beat the competition by fast following the competition. Our
competition are native, closed, proprietary ecosystems. To beat them, the Web
has to be on the bleeding edge of technology. I would love to see VR support in
the Web platform before its available as a builtin capability in
On Apr 15, 2014, at 4:17 PM, Benoit Jacob jacob.benoi...@gmail.com wrote:
2014-04-15 18:28 GMT-04:00 Andreas Gal andreas@gmail.com:
You can’t beat the competition by fast following the competition. Our
competition are native, closed, proprietary ecosystems. To beat them, the Web
On Apr 15, 2014, at 9:00 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote:
On Wed, Apr 16, 2014 at 11:14 AM, Vladimir Vukicevic
vladim...@gmail.comwrote:
Note that for purposes of this discussion, VR support is minimal.. some
properties to read to get some info about the output device
Vlad asked a specific question in the first email. Are we comfortable using
another open (albeit not open enough for MPL) license on trunk while we rewrite
the library? Can we compromise on trunk in order to innovate faster and only
ship to GA once the code is MPL friendly via re-licensing or
:
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Andreas Gal andreas@gmail.com wrote:
My assumption is that certain users only need certain CMaps because they
tend to read only documents in certain languages. This seems like something
we can really optimize and avoid ahead-of-time download cost for.
So
and Mupdf embed the CMaps.
Brendan
On Feb 24, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Andreas Gal andreas@gmail.com
wrote:
Is this something we could load dynamically and offline cache?
Andreas
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On Feb 24, 2014, at 23:41, Brendan Dahl bd...@mozilla.com wrote:
PDF.js plans to soon start
just sticking with zip
we should get better compression and likely better load times. Wdyt?
Andreas
On Feb 27, 2014, at 12:25 AM, Mike Hommey m...@glandium.org wrote:
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 08:56:37PM +0100, Andreas Gal wrote:
This randomly reminds me that it might be time to review zip as our
Is this something we could load dynamically and offline cache?
Andreas
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On Feb 24, 2014, at 23:41, Brendan Dahl bd...@mozilla.com wrote:
PDF.js plans to soon start including and using Adobe CMap files for
converting character codes to character id's(CIDs) and mapping
Firefox resources?
From what I’ve seen, many PDF’s use CMaps even if they don’t necessarily have
CJK characters, so it may just be better to include them. FWIW both Popper
and Mupdf embed the CMaps.
Brendan
On Feb 24, 2014, at 3:01 PM, Andreas Gal andreas@gmail.com wrote
We could easily add a time multiplier pref and you could set that during your
test. This is probably cheap enough and useful enough to do in production
builds.
Andreas
On Feb 16, 2014, at 7:24 PM, Andrew Sutherland asutherl...@asutherland.org
wrote:
In Gaia, the system and many of the apps
It seems to me that we have arrived at the conclusion that a good drawing API
should be mostly stateless (like Moz2D), instead of Cairo's stateful API. As a
result we are currently removing all uses of the Cairo API and we will
eventually remove Cairo from our codebase altogether (in favor of
On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Karl Tomlinson mozn...@karlt.net wrote:
Nicholas Cameron writes:
Currently on Linux our only 'supported' graphics backend is the
main-thread software backend (basic layers).
FWIW basic layers is predominantly GPU-based compositing
(not-softwared) on most X11
On Nov 7, 2013, at 1:48 PM, Karl Tomlinson mozn...@karlt.net wrote:
Andreas Gal writes:
Its not a priority to fix Linux/X11. We will happily take
contributed patches, and people are welcome to fix issues they
see, as long its not at the expense of the things that matter.
Do bugs in B2G
If you can access the remaining battery status of a large enough
population over time it should be easy to use telemetry to measure
this pre and post patch.
Andreas
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On Nov 5, 2013, at 16:46, David Rajchenbach-Teller dtel...@mozilla.com
wrote:
Context: I am currently
Looks like the comms app has some residual use of the old audio API:
apps/communications/dialer/js/keypad.js:this._audio.mozSetup(1,
this._sampleRate);
apps/system/emergency-call/js/keypad.js: this._audio.mozSetup(2,
this._sampleRate);
Should be easy to replace. I will file a bug and
Hi,
we currently have a zoo of shaders to render layers:
RGBALayerProgramType,
BGRALayerProgramType,
RGBXLayerProgramType,
BGRXLayerProgramType,
RGBARectLayerProgramType,
RGBXRectLayerProgramType,
BGRARectLayerProgramType,
RGBAExternalLayerProgramType,
ColorLayerProgramType,
Pepper is not an API, its basically a huge set of Chromium guts exposed you can
link against. The only documentation is the source, and that source keeps
constantly changing. I don't think its viable for anyone to implement Pepper
without also pulling in most or all of Chromium. Pepper is
Can you delete this boilerplate from existing makefiles if not already
done? That will prevent people from adding it since people look at
examples when adding new makefiles.
Andreas
Mike Hommey wrote:
Hi,
Assuming it sticks, bug 912293 made it unnecessary to start Makefile.in
files with
Soon we will be using GL (and its Windows equivalent) on most platforms
to implement a hardware accelerated compositor. We draw into a back
buffer and with up to 60hz we perform a buffer swap to display the back
buffer and make the front buffer the new back buffer (double buffering).
As a
Andreas Gal andreas@gmail.com
Soon we will be using GL (and its Windows equivalent) on most platforms to
implement a hardware accelerated compositor. We draw into a back buffer and
with up to 60hz we perform a buffer swap to display the back buffer and
make the front buffer the new back
+1
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On Aug 14, 2013, at 9:25, Chris Peterson cpeter...@mozilla.com wrote:
We could also send a weekly congratulations to the person who removed the
most lines of code that week. :)
chris
On 8/13/13 1:57 PM, Jet Villegas wrote:
This is awesome! Is it possible to see a
We are working on ways to make add-ons like adblock work with e10s on
desktop without major changes to the add-on. That mechanism might work
for the thumbnail case. Gavin can reach out to trev and discuss whether
this is something we should try to make work. I do agree this isn't
super high
For that we would have to implement Promise via IDL. Definitely
possible. All you need is a bit IDL and some JS that implements it. It
would be a lot slower than the jsm since it wraps into C++ objects that
call into JS, but in most cases that doesn't really matter.
Andreas
Yeah, I just saw that grepping through the tree. Both completely
independent, too. On the upside, this might solve Jan's problem.
Andreas
Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 7/30/13 7:36 AM, Andreas Gal wrote:
For that we would have to implement Promise via IDL. Definitely
possible. All you need
Whats the main pain point? Whether promises are resolved immediately or
from a future event loop iteration?
Andreas
Gavin Sharp wrote:
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:17 AM, Boris Zbarskybzbar...@mit.edu wrote:
On 7/30/13 11:13 AM, Dave Townsend wrote:
The JS promise implementation came out
On May 1, 2013, at 1:06 AM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote:
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 6:41 PM, Andreas Gal g...@mozilla.com wrote:
Both Skia/SkiaGL and D2D support basically all the effects and filters we
want.
D2D does not support GLSL custom filters. We'd need ANGLE/GLContext
(with simd and threading) and adequate performance on-GPU?
It is my understanding that OpenCL can manipulate textures, but I don't know
what the constraints are (or whether ordinary users actually have a working
OpenCL implementation).
-kg
On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 9:11 PM, Andreas Gal g
On Apr 30, 2013, at 10:28 PM, Andreas Gal g...@mozilla.com wrote:
On Apr 30, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote:
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 4:11 PM, Andreas Gal g...@mozilla.com wrote:
I wonder whether we should focus on one fast GPU path via GLSL, and have one
On Apr 30, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Robert O'Callahan rob...@ocallahan.org wrote:
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 5:28 PM, Andreas Gal g...@mozilla.com wrote:
Should we hide the temporary surface generation (when needed) within the API?
GLContext::Composite(Target, Source, EffectChain, Filters
Preferences are as the name implies intended for preferences. There is no sane
use case for storing data in preferences. I would give any patch I come across
doing that an automatic sr- for poor taste and general insanity.
SQLite is definitely not cheap, and we should look at more suitable
We filed a bug for this and I am working on the patch.
Andreas
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On Apr 26, 2013, at 16:06, Mounir Lamouri mou...@lamouri.fr wrote:
On 26/04/13 11:17, Gregory Szorc wrote:
Anyway, I just wanted to see if others have thought about this. Do
others feel it is a concern? If so,
JS is a big advantage for rapid implementation of features and it's
easier to avoid exploitable mistakes. Also, in many cases JS code
(bytecode, not data) should be slimmer than C++. Using JS for
infrequently executing code should be a memory win. I think I would
like to hear from the JS team on
Do we actually need the tab, or just the document? If its the latter, can we
just keep the document around invisibly?
Andreas
On Feb 25, 2013, at 10:14 PM, Zack Weinberg za...@panix.com wrote:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=650960 seeks to replace the
existing print progress
OpenVG is a Khronos standard API for GPU accelerated 2D rendering. Its very
similar to OpenGL in design. In fact, its an alternative API to OpenGL ES on
top of EGL. It looks like that OpenVG is supported on most Android devices and
is used there by Flash (or well used to be used). B2G devices
not
available broadly for quite a while. Over time we will want to switch over to
this if it becomes more common, but for now, especially for mobile, OpenVG
seems attractive.
Andreas
-kg
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 1:00 PM, Andreas Gal g...@mozilla.com wrote:
OpenVG is a Khronos standard API
special dedicated hardware for
OpenVG (for tessellation I am guessing). If we find OpenVG too unstable for the
broad set of Android hardware, we can always limit OpenVG use to B2G devices
where we can work with the vendor.
Andreas
Benoit
2013/2/23 Andreas Gal g...@mozilla.com
OpenVG
On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:50 AM, Milan Sreckovic msrecko...@mozilla.com wrote:
I think we need a stronger statement than worthwhile in this:
It would be worthwhile to wait for the Layers refactoring to be completed to
avoid too many conflicts.
when it comes to actually landing code.
There is definitely a lot of prerequisites we can work on first. Making all the
DL code self-containing means eliminating much of nsCSSRendering.cpp, which is
probably quite some refactoring work we can do right now.
Andreas
On Feb 12, 2013, at 12:24 PM, Jet Villegas j...@mozilla.com wrote:
Hey Asa,
where does the magic 20 pages deep history number come from? Why not 1? Or 999?
Andreas
On Feb 12, 2013, at 9:40 PM, Asa Dotzler a...@mozilla.com wrote:
On 2/12/2013 3:08 PM, Ed Morley wrote:
On 12 February 2013 22:11:12, Stephen Pohl wrote:
I wanted to give a heads up that we're
am sure you guys
considered this, so I am curious why this was excluded.
Thanks,
Andreas
On Feb 12, 2013, at 11:29 PM, Asa Dotzler a...@mozilla.com wrote:
On 2/12/2013 8:05 PM, Andreas Gal wrote:
Hey Asa,
where does the magic 20 pages deep history number come from? Why not 1? Or
999
Hi Anthony,
thanks for bringing this up. I completely agree that we have to unify all that
scrolling code. Chris Jones and Doug Sherk wrote most of the current C++ async
scrolling code. We should definitely unify around that. Once we support
multiple concurrent scrollable regions instead of
On Dec 31, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Boris Zbarsky bzbar...@mit.edu wrote:
On 12/30/12 2:16 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote:
How bad would it be to make expr instanceof expression resolving to
WebIDL interface special-cased to re-map the RHS to the appropriate
WebIDL interface object for expr?
In
We have test coverage using emulators, and actual hardware (panda boards) is
being set up. Reporting of the results and integration is very lacking, and
until those pieces fall into place (e.g. try integration), the developer
experience is going to suck a lot if we enforce the rule below
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