On 04/26/2013 03:21 PM, Dirkjan Ochtman wrote:
Also, I wonder if SQLite 4 (which is more like a key-value store)
SQLite 4 is not actually more like a key-value store. The underlying
storage model used by the SQL-interface-that-is-the-interface changed
from being a page-centric btree
On 04/26/2013 03:30 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote:
However, before that happens, I'd like some consensus that IndexedDB is
the best solution here. I'd especially like to hear what Performance
thinks: I don't want to start creating a preferred storage solution
without their blessing. If they have
On 05/24/2013 11:05 AM, Mike Conley wrote:
Sounds like we're talking about code review.
But I want to qualify integration into bugzilla: I explicitly do not
want a tool that is tightly coupled to bugzilla. In fact, I want a
tool that has as little to do with bugzilla as feasible.
I'm a
For B2G's gaia repository we are currently using xpcshell[1] as our
command line JS runner. I was noticing some horrible inconsistencies in
terms of blowing the JS stack when we were trying to use the esprima JS
parser[2] that varied by the platform and build type.
The nutshell is that the
On 06/28/2013 06:52 PM, Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
The JS stack limit should be basically the native stack limit minus a
little bit of headroom (maybe 512 bytes?). Whether we implement that
dynamically or just use ifdefs to hardcode the correct values seems
like just an implementation question.
On 11/11/2013 01:33 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
By far the easiest solution would be leaving the code in m-c but
#ifdefing it out of Firefox builds. Is there a compelling reason not
to do so? If there is no compelling reason against #ifdefing it out in
m-c, what's the right variable to #ifdef on
On 11/12/2013 03:39 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Andrew Sutherland
asutherl...@asutherland.org wrote:
On 11/11/2013 01:33 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
Actually, I believe you need to keep the x-imap4-modified-utf7 converters
in B2G, if you don't want to break Gaia
In Gaia, the system and many of the apps use transitions/animations with
a non-trivial duration, particularly for card metaphor stuff where logic
may be blocked on the completion of the animation. (Values seem to vary
between 0.3s and 0.5s... no one tell UX!)
Our Gaia tests currently take an
On 03/05/2014 01:52 AM, nsm.nik...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tuesday, March 4, 2014 1:26:15 AM UTC-8, somb...@gmail.com wrote:
While we have a defense-in-depth strategy (CSP and iframe sandbox should
be protecting us from the worst possible scenarios) and we're hopeful
that Service Workers will
On 03/21/2014 12:06 PM, Bill McCloskey wrote:
The problem with doing measurements is that the per-compartment overhead is
very dependent on what's going on in the compartment. I tried to enable the B2G
compartment merging stuff in desktop Firefox to get a sense of how much of a
change there
On 03/27/2014 10:10 AM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
It's worth noting that hg-git is having some performance issues with
github right now. A basic clone of a 1MB repository takes well over a
minute before it starts doing anything.
When I was converting my repositories last night I found that
The code should be fixed. It's my understanding that the existing idiom
used throughout the Thunderbird tree is still okay to do since the
prototype chain is created at object initialization time and so there's
no actual mutation of the chain:
function Application() {
}
Application.prototype
On 04/15/2014 07:14 PM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote:
1) Is anyone working on something similar that works for frontend code
(particularly, chrome JS)? I realize we have a JS debugger, but
sometimes activating the debugger at the wrong time makes the bug go
away, and then there's timing issues, and
tl;dr: We need to figure out how to safely allow for invalid
certificates to be used in the Firefox OS Gaia email app. We do want
all users to be able to access their email, but not by compromising the
security of all users. Read on if you work in the security field / care
about certificates
. In the specific Mozilla case, this was probably
https://bugzil.la/815771.
Andrew Sutherland writes:
I propose that we use a certificate-observatory-style mechanism to
corroborate any invalid certificates by attempting the connection
from 1 or more trusted servers whose identity can be authenticated
using
On 05/28/2014 08:37 PM, Karl Dubost wrote:
Le 29 mai 2014 à 09:13, Andrew Sutherland asutherl...@asutherland.org a écrit
:
My imagined rationale for why someone would use a self-signed certificate
amounts to laziness.
being one of those persons using a self-signed certificate, let's enrich
On 05/28/2014 09:30 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 5:13 PM, Andrew Sutherland
I agree this is a safe approach and the trusted server is a significant
complication in this whole endeavor. But I can think of no other way to
break the symmetry of am I being attacked or do I just
On 05/29/2014 07:12 PM, Brian Smith wrote:
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:03 PM, Andrew Sutherland
asutherl...@asutherland.org wrote:
It seems like you would be able to answer this as part of the scan of the
internet, by trying to retrieve the self-hosted autoconfig file if it is
available. I
On 05/28/2014 06:30 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote:
== Proposed solution for exceptions / allowing connections
There are a variety of options here, but I think one stands above the
others. I propose that we make TCPSocket and XHR with mozSystem take
a dictionary that characterizes one or more
On 07/13/2014 11:55 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
Sadly I don't think that is very safe. I bet a significant majority of our
users have no idea what a serial port is or what will happen if they allow
a website to connect to it.
Agreed. It seems like the concept users are most likely to reliably
On 07/16/2014 02:03 PM, Dave Hylands wrote:
But phones, and devices like the Raspberry Pi, and BeagleBone Black, also have
native serial ports (i.e. non-USB, non-Bluetooth), and the people that use
these types of devices are the very one which are extremely frustrated by the lack of
support
On 08/12/2014 04:04 PM, Ilya Grigorik wrote:
In short, seems like this is inventing a derivative single-page app model for
building pages/apps, and that makes me wonder because it doesn't seem to make
it any easier. Everything described here can be achieved with current tools,
but perhaps
On 10/13/2014 07:06 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
I nominally agree with this sentiment, but there are a few caveats:
1. nsITreeView and xul:tree exist and are usable in Mozilla code
today. No HTML-based alternative to these are so easily usable.
There are many lazy-rendering infinite
One of the UI polish issues that is facing Firefox OS apps is inclusion
of a show password mechanism. Although the adoption of Web Components
makes this something that can be addressed in a somewhat unified
fashion, this seems like an affordance that is probably universally
desired on (at
On 12/12/2014 06:24 PM, Ehsan Akhgari wrote:
On 2014-12-12 6:19 PM, Tanvi Vyas wrote:
A touch event or mouseclick-and-hold on the eye icon could show the
password, and as soon as the user releases the password can go back to
being obfuscated. That would prevent accidental leakage through
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015, at 11:13 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Sun, Feb 1, 2015 at 3:28 AM, Kyle Huey m...@kylehuey.com wrote:
Do we have actual evidence that indexeddb performance is a problem? I've
never seen any.
Yup. I think this is a very good question.
Did the people writing
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015, at 05:12 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote:
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015, at 03:02 PM, ben turner (bent) wrote:
If a crash or power loss occurs at just
the right moment then the transaction will be lost/rolled back. It should
still be impossible to ever see database corruption though
On 04/24/2015 12:48 PM, Yonggang Luo wrote:
I am currently using executeAsync to do async sqlite operation
in main thread, and running multiple executeAsync in parallel, and it's
crashed,
I am not so sure if multiple executeAsync can be executed at the same time.
This is fine. The
On 04/29/2015 03:10 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
But has anyone reached out to the JS
team and let them know that we really need let and yield in workers to
see if A is an option?
This is the reaching-out stage now* :). When I filed bug 1151739 the
only impacted app was the email app, and that
Update/data after talking with sfink/jorendorff/Waldo/shu of the JS team
and some follow-up investigation with thanks to sfink to initiating the
conversation:
- yield inside function* is working fine inside a worker with
JSVERSION_DEFAULT; we suspect the error I was relaying was not inside a
All content DOM workers use JSVERSION_DEFAULT unless the
dom.workers.latestJSVersion pref is set to true. (Note: you need to
manually add the pref in about:config.) Chrome workers get
JSVERSION_LATEST. There is no way to tell the worker to use a specific
JS version like we can do in page
On 05/14/2015 04:22 PM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote:
== is not any less explicit than ===. Both versions have an exact,
specified meaning.
They both have exact meanings. But people, especially new contributors
new to JS, frequently use == without understanding the nuances and
footguns involved.
On Wed, Apr 1, 2015, at 03:02 PM, ben turner (bent) wrote:
In the meantime, if the dom.indexedDB.experimental pref is set
(defaults to |false| in Firefox and |true| in B2G, I think)
I don't think it's set to true for B2G right now. I don't see such a
mapping in
This is probably due to
https://dxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/mailnews/test/resources/logHelper.js
that registers itself as a console listener and its low-tech feedback
loop prevention. (NB: The quippy file-level comment should be
s/aweswome/Andrew/ for the third instance of awesome.) See
On 08/22/2015 10:57 AM, 罗勇刚(Yonggang Luo) wrote:
I wanna to ignore some files when debugging .
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger/How_to/Black_box_a_source
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Are there any plans to surface the contents of
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIEffectiveTLDService
from https://publicsuffix.org/ via a web-facing URI? Or is the long
term expectation that web content will just embed the list in the app,
On 08/08/2015 10:00 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote:
Are there any plans to surface the contents of
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XPCOM/Reference/Interface/nsIEffectiveTLDService
from https://publicsuffix.org/ via a web-facing URI?
And of course I meant API here. Most
Would it be crazy for us to resort to a poll on these things? I propose
abusing the mozillans.org skills field in profiles.
For example, I have created the following sets of skills on
mozillians.org by question, and which should autocomplete if you go to
the edit page for your profile at
On Fri, Oct 23, 2015, at 01:02 PM, Joshua Cranmer wrote:
> Actually, the b2g email app does reuse JSMime (or at least will be
> shortly).
Clarifying: Yes, library reuse is happening and it's good and awesome
and we want more of it.
But: b2g gaia email does not now and is unlikely to ever care
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015, at 01:24 PM, Adam Roach wrote:
> Does this mean it might interact with webmail services as well? Or do
> they tend to do server-side transcoding from the received encoding to
> something like UTF8?
They do server-side decoding. It would take a tremendous amount of
effort
"offline.html" does not appear to be in filesToCache that is passed to
cache.addAll().
On Mon, May 30, 2016, at 03:02 PM, Mohit Bajoria wrote:
> Hello
>
> There is offline.html page in repository. When there is no internet
> connection then it should show up reading from cache.
> Right now it
uot; doesn't show up.
>
> Github project link -
> https://github.com/mbj36/My-Blog/commits/gh-pages
>
> Please help
> Thanks
> Mohit
>
> On 31 May 2016 at 23:45, Andrew Sutherland
> <asutherl...@asutherland.org> wrote:
>> "offline.html" does not ap
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286467 has landed, so if
you have the following in your .gdbinit:
add-auto-load-safe-path ~/some/parent/dir/of/where/you/keep/gecko
You're now going to see stuff like the following for a hashtable with
entries:
mRegistrationInfos =
On Mon, Aug 8, 2016, at 09:35 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> When you click a link to a particular line in dxr, that would normally
> navigate from https://dxr/foo to https://dxr/foo#lineno. Instead, have
> it navigate to https://dxr/rev/foo#lineno.
It would be great if DXR could expose a
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017, at 03:13 PM, Bill McCloskey wrote:
> I've been thinking about how to integrate documentation into Searchfox.
> One
> obvious thing is to allow it to display Markdown files and
> reStructuredText. I wonder if it could do something useful with Doxygen
> comments though? Is this
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017, at 04:42 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote:
> A sketch first steps implementation would be:
I took a shot at this. The pull request with details is at
https://github.com/bill-mccloskey/searchfox/pull/11 and hopefully
self-explanatory screenshots are here:
ht
There's a proposal at https://github.com/jakearchibald/background-cache
for enabling persistently-tracked uploads/downloads in the background.
It might change names to background-fetch.
I'm interested in getting some informed feedback about the following
use-case on
Right now the gecko gdb pretty-printers have been tracked using bugs in
"Core :: Build Config" because that's where the bug that first added
them lived. That component currently has 1773 bugs in it, 3 of which
involve gdb, and with daily activity of ~10 bugs a day. I think a more
targeted
On Sun, Mar 19, 2017, at 12:36 AM, Nils Ohlmeier wrote:
> Wouldn’t it make more sense to let the build system detect and
> reject/warn about (?) such a manual modification?
> My assumption here is that mailing list archives are not a good place to
> document processes or systems.
I think some
On Sun, May 21, 2017, at 09:29 PM, Mark Hammond wrote:
> As I mentioned at the start of the thread, in one concrete example we
> had code already written that we identified being janky -
>
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017, at 03:27 AM, ishikawa wrote:
> On local machine, when I added a modal error dailog as a response to an
> error condition, which happens to be artificially created and tested in
> xpcshell test, the test fails because the screen or whatever is not
> available. Fair enough,
On Thu, Jun 15, 2017, at 09:37 PM, ISHIKAWA,chiaki wrote:
> Interesting.
> But this covers only modal prompts generated by/in JavaScript modules,
> and not C++ code?
> If so, maybe I should re-think my previous error/warning dialog to see
> if the generation can be moved to JavaScript code.
> It
Right now if you have an e10s xpcshell test, the remote type of the
resulting child (content) process will be NO_DEFAULT_TYPE="". This is
not a real type, this is not a type you should ever see in Firefox. In
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1395827 I propose changing
the type to
As of Firefox 63 we're hoping to turn navigator.storage
(StorageManager[1]) on by default for Firefox for Android (Fennec). It
is controlled by pref "dom.storageManager.enabled" and provides both the
storage.estimate() and storage.persist() API's[2].
We shipped navigator.storage for Desktop
Right now MOZ_LOG's default output does not include process identifiers,
so messages from different processes look misleadingly similar:
[Main Thread]: D/nsBlah Message Message
[Main Thread]: D/nsBlah Message Message
They will soon instead look like:
[4372:Main Thread]: D/nsBlah Message
QuotaManager already has a notion of "internal" origins[1] that
explicitly white-lists devtools' synthetic "indexeddb" fake scheme.
It's this check that avoids the prompt when persistent storage is requested.
It might make sense to expand the existing logic that acts like all
Can you elaborate on the execution context? Are these more like
"browser" mochitests or "plain" mochitests?
(https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Mochitest#Running_flavors_and_subsuites)
Is the Thunderbird tabbed UI its own normal XUL window self, or is it
framed inside
On 9/6/19 7:31 AM, David Teller wrote:
For what it's worth, I recently spent half a day attempting to solve a
bug which would have been trivial if `a` and `m` prefixes had been
present in that part of the code.
While I find these notations ugly, they're also useful.
Is this something
On 11/1/19 4:39 PM, Kim Moir wrote:
On Nov 14, 2019, we intend to change the permissions associated with Level
3 access to revoke direct push access to hg.mozilla.org on mozilla-inbound,
mozilla-central, mozilla-beta, mozilla-release and esr repos.
For mozilla-beta, mozilla-release, and esr...
Does this eliminate the need documented at
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Mochitest#stacks
to acquire a `minidump_stackwalk` binary and then expose it via
MINIDUMP_STACKWALK environment variable to get symbolicated backtraces
when local test runs crash? Or is that
On 3/6/20 2:24 AM, Gabriele Svelto wrote:
Now for the long answer: we're leveraging the Sentry crates to replace
our current crash reporting machinery. Not only they're faster and
better than what we have now but their functionality is far richer. So
it will be possible - and possibly even
by Thursday morning which should help
you come up to speed pre-emptively or just-in-time if you miss the
not-a-lecture at the beginning of the session.
On 1/9/20 1:43 PM, Andrew Sutherland wrote:
Are people interested in a session(s) at the All-Hands on Searchfox?
If you're interested in any
Are people interested in a session(s) at the All-Hands on Searchfox? If
you're interested in any of the following things, please email me here
or at as...@mozilla.com or let me know via other channels, and let me
know which of the following you'd be interested in. My goal is to get a
rough
On 1/8/20 12:50 PM, Geoffrey Brown wrote:
Instead of changing the reviewers, how about:
- we remind the sheriffs to needinfo
- #intermittent-reviewers check that needinfo is in place when
reviewing disabling patches.
To try and help address the visibility issue, we could also make
On 8/3/20 6:45 PM, Eric Rahm wrote:
*What's next?*
If folks want to improve the tool I'm happy to land patches in my
repo, or if someone wants to support it officially in the mozilla repo
I'm happy to transfer ownership.
This is a most excellent tool!
I wonder how hard it would be to get it
Have you ever been looking at a test file in Searchfox and wondered how
the test could possibly work? Then you do some more investigation and
it turns out that the test, in fact, does not work and is disabled?
Perhaps you even melodramatically threw your hands up in the air in
frustration?
On 7/29/20 6:28 AM, James Graham wrote:
As an aside/reminder for people, for web-platform-tests in particular
the dashboard at https://jgraham.github.io/wptdash/ can give you
information about all tests in a component and is designed to answer
questions like "which tests are failing in Firefox
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