Re: #ifdefing out mailnews-only code but keeping it in m-c

2013-11-12 Thread Henri Sivonen
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Benjamin Smedberg benja...@smedbergs.us wrote: Why don't we remove them from core and let tbird devs deal with it when they do have time (or stop supporting UTF7 and so forth if it's not important enough to fix)? Removing the IMAP flavor of UTF-7 would break

Re: Booting to the Web

2013-11-12 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
Hi, As far as I remember, thread scheduling in Firefox OS is handled by the Linux kernel, so if you are looking for documentation, you should probably look in that direction. Cheers, David On 11/12/13 6:14 AM, saurabhlnt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi.. I am presenting on the topic Firefox OS. I

Re: Booting to the Web

2013-11-12 Thread Thomas Zimmermann
Hi, There is nothing special about FFOS thread scheduling that I'm aware of. Threads are implemented by the underlying Linux kernel and are scheduled by the kernel itself. We use an Android kernel, so thread scheduling on FFOS is affected by wake locks. I don't know if we use cgroups* or nice

Re: Booting to the Web

2013-11-12 Thread Gabriele Svelto
Hi John, I am presenting on the topic Firefox OS. I need your help to develope some slides for Thread Schedulingin firefox OS. I am not able to find out any data regrading thread scheduling. Kindly help. as Thomas already mentioned FxOS uses the regular Linux scheduler for handling

Re: PSA: The profiling branch has shut down

2013-11-12 Thread Benoit Girard
That's correct. It means that benchmarking on nighties isn't really accurate so beware when running web/js benchmarks. Also it is wrong to assume an average performance cost and scale the nightly results by a factor. We made this decision with the hope that we could better gather performance data

Re: Booting to the Web

2013-11-12 Thread Ben Kelly
On 11/12/2013 10:27 AM, Gabriele Svelto wrote: Being one of the persons who wrote this code I should really be doing a write-up of this in our Firefox OS architecture page but I didn't have enough time for it yet :-| I was actually thinking while reading your mail that it was a great write up

Re: #ifdefing out mailnews-only code but keeping it in m-c

2013-11-12 Thread Neil
Mike Hommey wrote: Thunderbird is already linking stuff in libxul from c-c. Why wouldn't it be possible to move those bits to c-c and do the same? It's compiling components using the internal API and linking them into libxul because originally the mailnews components didn't compile against

Re: Plug-in feature not available in the web platform. Alternatives?

2013-11-12 Thread Matt Brubeck
On 11/8/2013 1:33 AM, fma spew wrote: 3- We haven't found any indication of Mozilla about alternatives for these kind of plug-ins, meaning plug-ins that need access to, in this case, Windows stuff. Google has provided alternatives though. One alternative is a Firefox extension. Firefox