On Tuesday, January 6, 2015 at 1:49:38 PM UTC-5, Benjamin Smedberg wrote: > I wanted to shared publicly the projects and areas of focus that the > Firefox Desktop Platform team in Q1. > > *Video quality issues, especially Flash video:* We have market data > which indicates that one of the most important pain points for Firefox > users is problems with video. We have several projects across Mozilla to > help improve this, including MSE so that youtube can stop using Flash, > and implementing video fallback in Shumway instead of in Flash for > common video sites. In specific, my goal is to reduce by half the number > of users who experience plugin hangs/deadlocks, which are currently very > common on Windows. > > *e10s:* the focus of our team in particular will be making sure that > e10s performs well and has proper measurement systems. This includes > updating telemetry to work with e10s, Talos metrics, and other > e10s-specific quality metrics. We will use these metrics to prepare a > recommendation for e10s riding the trains to beta and then release. > > *Telemetry/FHR Unification: *This will combine FHR and telemetry back > into a single client/server measurement system similar to the current > telemetry session-based measurement infrastructure. This involves both > client and server work on our team, and is being done along with the > services engineering team who will be maintaining the data ingestion > infrastructure and the metrics team who uses the data for analysis. This > will ride the Firefox 38 train. > > *Update Orphaning: *We currently have too many users stuck on old > versions of Firefox. This quarter we will be making a concerted effort > to measure the reasons that users get stuck on old versions and > implement fixes. Our current orphaning rate is 2% of users per 6-week > release cycle, and by the end of the year we intend for this to be below > 0.5%. > > *Catastrophic Memory Usage: *Some Firefox users especially on Windows > are experiencing huge memory usage and common OOM crashes. This is not > common to all users, but appears to affect particular configurations. > Our goal last quarter which carries into this year is to diagnose the > most common causes of this problem and work with the appropriate > engineering teams to solve the problems. Currently this effort focuses > on data from crash-stats, but it appears that it may be necessary to add > specific measurement of these problems to telemetry in order to properly > understand the issues. > > Questions or comments welcome. > > --BDS
I'm not sure if I fully understand your projects -- but does this answer the problems of not able to use YouTube on my new PC (I'm using Window 7)??? PC Technical Team and I spent hours trying to resolved this -- we were forced to download Chrome to use YouTube. FYI -- notice the problems are with YouTube embedded on various websites. Thank you. _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
