Re: Please keep an eye out for new plugin crashes

2016-04-20 Thread Robert Kaiser
FWIW, no crashes listed in this query after a week of having this on Nightly. KaiRo Benjamin Smedberg schrieb: In today's nightly I landed a patch in bug 1252152 which will crash a plugin-container process more aggressively if a plugin instance is torn down while its code is on the stack.

Re: Crash signature change: signatures now include abort messages

2016-04-07 Thread Robert Kaiser
o the signature, we remove /^\[.+\] ###!!! ABORT: / from the abort message, I'm putting this in the bug as well, we should discuss the details of what we do in there, I guess. KaiRo Robert Kaiser schrieb: For one thing, the signature facet is more helpful to look at signatures: Abort&_facets=signature&am

Re: Crash signature change: signatures now include abort messages

2016-04-07 Thread Robert Kaiser
For one thing, the signature facet is more helpful to look at signatures: Abort&_facets=signature&_columns=date&_columns=signature&_columns=abort_message#facet-signature ;-) Hmm, I'm somewhat nervous about the fact that there is no signature that appears twice in this stage dataset. I think

Re: Improving blame in Mercurial

2016-01-04 Thread Robert Kaiser
Gregory Szorc schrieb: If you have ideas for making the blame/annotate functionality better, please capture them at https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/BlamePlan or let me know by replying to this message. Your feedback will be used to drive what improvements Mercurial makes. I really liked a

Re: Date, time, week, month and datetime attributes in the in Firefox

2015-10-31 Thread Robert Kaiser
Jonas Sicking schrieb: The main blocker, IMO, is that unless web authors can style these controls to integrate well with the look and feel of the rest of their website, they won't be interested in using these controls. I'm not sure. I mean, isn't decently styleable and people still use it a

Re: Date, time, week, month and datetime attributes in the in Firefox

2015-10-29 Thread Robert Kaiser
Carlos Valim Coragem schrieb: I asked this same question on channel #mozilla-br on IRC, a mozillian gave me this link: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1069609 - the bug was opened on 09-18-2014, the last comment was day 07-24-2015, wondering if there was any progress on that.

Re: Merging comm-central into mozilla-central

2015-10-26 Thread Robert Kaiser
Jonas Sicking schrieb: Everyone acknowledges that there's currently friction due to the way that collaboration with thunderbird is done. The question is, do we fix that friction by making collaboration easier, or do we fix it by reducing collaboration. I think the only way to "fix the

Re: Merging comm-central into mozilla-central

2015-10-26 Thread Robert Kaiser
Jonas Sicking schrieb: Would it be possible to create a thunderbird build system which simply takes the output of a firefox build and grabs the files that it needs, and builds the additions that thunderbird needs. Generally speaking, libraries don't worry about having a build system which

Re: Merging comm-central into mozilla-central

2015-10-26 Thread Robert Kaiser
Jonas Sicking schrieb: I definitely think that some aspects of Firefox development has gotten easier thanks to the split. I'd like to see which. I don't see much that has gotten easier *because of the split*. I see a lot that has gotten easier because we change platform and Firefox (mostly)

Re: Merging comm-central into mozilla-central

2015-10-26 Thread Robert Kaiser
Edmund Wong schrieb: As for the long term plans, I'll wait for one of the SeaMonkey council members to comment on that; but I believe we are determined to maintain the SeaMonkey code. I'll weigh in as a SeaMonkey Council member - even though I mostly watch what's going on while Edmund is

Shortening Crash Signatures: Dropping Argument Lists

2015-10-13 Thread Robert Kaiser
Hi everyone, Crash signatures derived from the function on the stack are how we group ("bucket") crashes as belonging to a certain issue or bug. They should be precise enough to identify this "bucket" but also short enough so we can handle it as a denominator in lists and when talking about

Re: Shortening Crash Signatures: Dropping Argument Lists

2015-10-13 Thread Robert Kaiser
Boris Zbarsky schrieb: On 10/13/15 2:11 PM, Robert Kaiser wrote: Please let me know of any issues with those changes (as well as any other questions about or issues with crash analysis), and thanks to Lars, Byron (glob) and others who helped with those changes! Just to make sure, crash-stats

Re: Collecting web platform features implementation status

2015-07-17 Thread Robert Kaiser
Ehsan Akhgari schrieb: I think we need to have a way to signal that we are not going to implement a specific feature in addition to those categories (without delving into the specific example here, but yes this is one of those features.) That sends a useful signal to other browser vendors and

Re: New requirement for tier 1 platforms: working assertion stacks

2015-07-16 Thread Robert Kaiser
Ehsan Akhgari schrieb: Is someone signing up to do the work to keep the working on all tier 1 platforms now? I know it's not a platform, but does JIT conflict with this? Ion JIT stack are not walkable in any way that the stackwalker understands... (Actually, I do not know of any way to even

Re: Voting in BMO

2015-06-12 Thread Robert Kaiser
Mark Côté schrieb: * Change bug tagging to something like favouriting (or a word with less contentious spelling ;). Rework the UI to provide an obvious way to both favourite a bug and to see your favourites list. I actually think that tagging is an established way to call such a

Re: Voting in BMO

2015-06-10 Thread Robert Kaiser
Philipp Kewisch schrieb: I could live without this feature if the number of people on CC gives some indication of how wanted a feature may be. Well, I tend to CC myself to thing I seriously do not want to change but really want to be informed about when they actually get done. I wouldn't use

Re: Tiles Design Questions (was Re: Improving trust and transparency for Suggested Tiles)

2015-04-23 Thread Robert Kaiser
Martin Thomson schrieb: On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 12:33 PM, e...@mozilla.com wrote: Do you have suggestions on where each of the 4 topics I posted should be discussed? In a meeting, where a small number of participants are well-prepared. So you mean in a place where Mozilla's greatest

Re: Excessive inbound bustage

2015-04-22 Thread Robert Kaiser
Bobby Holley schrieb: On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Nick Fitzgerald nfitzger...@mozilla.com wrote: ​And this can surely be done via private channels​, without public shaming and the potential negatives people have listed elsewhere in the thread, right? How, exactly?I want the ability

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-04-17 Thread Robert Kaiser
Karl Dubost schrieb: Henri, great points, about… Le 14 avr. 2015 à 19:29, Henri Sivonen hsivo...@hsivonen.fi a écrit : Currently, the UI designation for http is neutral while the UI designation for mixed content is undesirable. I think we should make the UI designation of plain http

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-04-15 Thread Robert Kaiser
northrupthebandg...@gmail.com schrieb: That whole article is just additional shovelfuls of bovine manure slopped onto the existing heap. Please refrain from language like that in lists like this if you want to be taken seriously. KaiRo ___

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-04-15 Thread Robert Kaiser
vic schrieb: I would view this proposal favorably if 1) you didn't try to force people to adopt the One True Way and 2) the CA situation was fixed. Please define of what alternatives to what you call the One True Way are acceptable to you and still secure to access, and also what specific

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-04-15 Thread Robert Kaiser
Yoav Weiss schrieb: IMO, limiting new features to HTTPS only, when there's no real security reason behind it will only end up limiting feature adoption. It directly punishing developers and adds friction to using new features, but only influence business in a very indirect manner. That's my

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-04-15 Thread Robert Kaiser
Boris Zbarsky schrieb: On 4/14/15 3:28 AM, Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 4:10 AM, Karl Dubost kdub...@mozilla.com wrote: 1. You do not need to register a domain name to have a Web site (IP address) Name one site you visit regularly that doesn't have a domain name. My

Re: Intent to deprecate: Insecure HTTP

2015-04-15 Thread Robert Kaiser
northrupthebandg...@gmail.com schrieb: On Monday, April 13, 2015 at 8:26:59 PM UTC-7, ipar...@gmail.com wrote: * Less scary warnings about self-signed certificates (i.e. treat HTTPS+selfsigned like we do with HTTP now, and treat HTTP like we do with HTTPS+selfsigned now); the fact that

Re: Intent to Ship: 3rd Party Install Tracking

2015-03-19 Thread Robert Kaiser
Mark Finkle schrieb: and maybe we should use it for the FHR persistent ID since it's the same across installs and profile-resets I think it's a *very* bad idea privacy-wise to use the same ID across different data collection services as that opens up all the scary cross-system-user-tracking

Re: Permission UI

2015-03-03 Thread Robert Kaiser
Anne van Kesteren schrieb: I'd like to ask that we start investigating how to best present these to the user, including their persistence and implications. Note that one idea that I had about 5 years back is implemented by default in SeaMonkey as Data Manager and available as a Firefox add-on

Re: PSA: multipart/x-mixed-replace images will soon be restricted to MJPEG

2015-01-02 Thread Robert Kaiser
Seth Fowler schrieb: On Dec 17, 2014, at 10:08 PM, James May m...@fowlsmurf.net wrote: * Is there telemetry for this? There isn’t telemetry specifically for non-MJPEG usage of multipart/x-mixed-replace images. Given that I’ve never seen them used outside of our test suite, I don’t think we

Re: PSA: multipart/x-mixed-replace images will soon be restricted to MJPEG

2015-01-02 Thread Robert Kaiser
L. David Baron schrieb: On Friday 2015-01-02 14:23 +0100, Robert Kaiser wrote: Seth Fowler schrieb: On Dec 17, 2014, at 10:08 PM, James May m...@fowlsmurf.net wrote: * Is there telemetry for this? There isn’t telemetry specifically for non-MJPEG usage of multipart/x-mixed-replace images

Re: e10s is now enabled by default for Nightly!

2014-11-07 Thread Robert Kaiser
Marco Bonardo schrieb: I'm forcing myself to use it for everyday work, but I completely dropped forceRTL and Flash (I must admit I'm not missing it) to make it usable. The Flash/Plugins stuff *should* have been fixed, but probably needs testing. KaiRo

Re: Breakdown of Firefox full installer

2014-11-01 Thread Robert Kaiser
Mike Hommey schrieb: The only way to generate them is to run firefox. Well, there are other ways, but I don't think adding parts of the js engine and gecko to the installer is really a great idea. Could the installer run the Firefox binary in some mode that would just generate those files and

Re: Breakdown of Firefox full installer

2014-10-28 Thread Robert Kaiser
Mike Hommey schrieb: Note a significant amount of the omni.ja and browser/omni.ja data is used for jsloader/jssubloader data: 4744949 and 1560499 bytes from those files are that. These jsloader/jssubloader data are there for startup benefits on Firefox first run (if the data wasn't there, it

Re: Upcoming changes to autocomplete code affecting Thunderbird

2014-08-31 Thread Robert Kaiser
Paolo Amadini schrieb: On 8/30/2014 2:18 PM, Philip Chee wrote: SeaMonkey uses Form History: http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f69c9019e0b0 Thanks for the reference! I'll keep in mind that these Form History interfaces are used by SeaMonkey as well. I think that any application

Re: Continued support for ESR

2014-08-10 Thread Robert Kaiser
Lukas Blakk schrieb: * plan a marketing push around the existence of ESR (update docs, revamp the org web page, promote the channel externally) Let's please make sure we stay clear in that we do not want end users on this channel and do not give any direct support to them but any support

Re: Rethinking the crash experience

2014-07-09 Thread Robert Kaiser
Most probably would not type a comment when they're not immediately prompted for it. We could do an experiment around it, but I'd be surprised if anything else comes out of it. I for myself probably wouldn't type a comment myself in 90% of the cases when that was required, and I know how

Re: Rethinking the crash experience

2014-07-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
David Rajchenbach-Teller schrieb: 5. Upon the next restart, display a bottom doorhanger on all windows Firefox or an add-on encountered a problem [a few seconds ago / on July 4rd, 2014] and recovered. If you wish, Firefox can report it automatically so that we can fix the bug report/not this

Re: Rethinking the crash experience

2014-07-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Justin Dolske schrieb: 3) E10S will already need something vaguely like this That's a completely different subject, esp. as we already have an in-content crash reporter UI for plugin crashes. KaiRo ___ dev-platform mailing list

Re: Rethinking the crash experience

2014-07-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Tobias Besemer schrieb: Sorry, maybe a little bit OT ... ;-) Would it be possible to report back to Mozilla hanging scripts ??? I'd love to have something reporting fatal JS error and hanging scripts but that would be something pretty different from what the current crash reporter does as

What are the most important new APIs to document in Q3/Q4?

2014-06-26 Thread Robert Kaiser
Benoit Jacob schrieb: Not expressing any opinion on whether WebGL should be prioritized, but recently I had to teach some WebGL and, not being fully satisfied with existing tutorials, I made a code-only tutorial made of 12 increasingly involved WebGL examples,

New crash signatures for out-of-memory crashes: OOM | ...

2014-06-18 Thread Robert Kaiser
Benjamin Smedberg schrieb: The known-large crashes will have a signature of OOM | Large | C++Signature. The engineering action for these crashes should typically be to make the call site use a fallible allocator instead of an infallible allocator. Crashkill will track and file the most common

Re: Google announces Chrome builds for Win64

2014-06-05 Thread Robert Kaiser
jmor...@mozilla.com schrieb: Launching 64 bit first may be a stability bandaid for users who have 64 bit and adequate memory. I would want to see decently founded comparative stats from a wide variety of systems before claiming that. bsmedberg and others have done some analysis that looks to

Re: Time to revive the require SSE2 discussion

2014-05-11 Thread Robert Kaiser
GMT-04:00 matthew.br...@gmail.com: On Tuesday, January 3, 2012 4:37:53 PM UTC-8, Benoit Jacob wrote: 2012/1/3 Jeff Muizelaar jmuizel...@mozilla.com: On 2012-01-03, at 2:01 PM, Benoit Jacob wrote: 2012/1/2 Robert Kaiser ka...@kairo.at: Jean-Marc Desperrier schrieb

Re: Recommendations on source control and code review

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Kaiser
Karl Tomlinson schrieb: Joshua Cranmer . writes: On 4/13/2014 4:42 PM, Robert O'Callahan wrote: Honestly, I think we're already pretty close to most of those recommendations, most of the time. Some experienced Mozillians are breaking up their large changes well, but some are not. And many

Re: Oculus VR support somehwat-non-free code in the tree

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Kaiser
Rob Manson schrieb: I know I'm lobbing in from the sidelines on what is essentially a licensing debate internal to Mozilla...but wouldn't any VR implementation like Vlad described be best done as an extension of existing open web standards where possible. Excellent points, I really think that

Re: Oculus VR support somehwat-non-free code in the tree

2014-04-16 Thread Robert Kaiser
Benoit Jacob schrieb: In this respect, more innovation is not necessarily better, and in fact, the cost of innovating in the wrong direction could be particularly high for the Web compared to other platforms. But innovation is part of our mission (yes, the very short statement of it that must

Desktop QA: Bugzilla tags/keywords

2014-04-11 Thread Robert Kaiser
it's harder to mistype them, so I personally prefer them over whiteboard tags for cases like this. What's your opinion on that? (Please post discussion items on dev-quality, I'll post to the other lists as well when we reach a conclusion.) Robert Kaiser

Re: Spring cleaning: Reducing Number Footprint of HG Repos

2014-03-27 Thread Robert Kaiser
Taras Glek schrieb: *User Repos* TLDR: I would like to make user repos read-only by April 30th. When that happens, I will stop running any custom crash reports and dashboards that the stability program depends on, at least until further notice. I do not want to run a non-Mozilla-hosted repo

Re: Too many system compartments at start-up

2014-03-21 Thread Robert Kaiser
Nicholas Nethercote schrieb: Hi, At start-up, with a new profile, Firefox creates more than 230 system compartments. This is about 90 more than a year ago, and it's part of the reason why Firefox uses almost twice as much physical memory at start-up than it did two years ago. Hrm, reading

Re: Including Adobe CMaps

2014-02-28 Thread Robert Kaiser
lazily. Esp. on phones I would expect to have *very* expensive and slow download (as many Firefox OS users do from what I'm told) so it's actually there that I would say we cannot download in most cases, esp. as we want installed apps to work the same on all devices. Robert Kaiser

Re: New necko cache?

2014-02-20 Thread Robert Kaiser
Jason Duell schrieb: Is there something specific you're wondering about? Neil is the code module owner for SeaMonkey, I guess that might be where he's coming from with the question - he probably wants to make sure it still works in the future... ;-) KaiRo

Re: Tagging legitimate main thread I/O

2014-02-14 Thread Robert Kaiser
Brian Smith schrieb: David's explanation is mostly correct for Firefox (but see below). However, for Thunderbird that warning occurs because Thunderbird is blocking the main thread waiting for network I/O (and disk I/O). Thunderbird should be fixed so that it stops doing network I/O on the main

Re: [e10s] Changes to the browser.tabs.remote preference in desktop Firefox

2014-02-14 Thread Robert Kaiser
Bill McCloskey schrieb: I just wanted to make a quick announcement about preference changes for out-of-process tabs. Bug 960783, which landed recently, added a New OOP Window menu option to open a new window with out-of-process tabs. Right now this option is only enabled on Macs because it

Re: Toolkit sub-module Preferred Reviewers who are not Toolkit Peers

2014-01-23 Thread Robert Kaiser
Dave Townsend schrieb: Ideally you would have talked to the Toolkit module owner (i.e. me) before adding a new chunk of code to it but Toolkit has basically become the wild-west of modules and I'm not sure what purpose an owner is meant to have at this point. The Submodule page is probably

Re: Should we disable autoplay feature of HTMLMediaElement on mobile?

2013-12-11 Thread Robert Kaiser
Henri Sivonen schrieb: If autoplay is disabled by default, Web authors will take counter-measures and start playback from JavaScript. However, if autoplay is honored by default but the user can turn in off as a pref, it could be that Web authors won't bother to take counter-measures. It

Re: Should we disable autoplay feature of HTMLMediaElement on mobile?

2013-12-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Tetsuharu OHZEKI schrieb: I propose that we should disable autoplay feature of HTMLMediaElement on mobile. I personally have not yet seen any arguments that would really apply for making things different between mobile and desktop in your discussion, and I think we should not make

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

2013-12-05 Thread Robert Kaiser
-to-activate mechanism (that also allows users to activate a specific plugin for the long run). You're well-advised to try and move as much of your code away from NPAPI as possible, but NPAPI is not in danger of going away for you in desktop Firefox. Robert Kaiser

Re: On closing old bugs

2013-12-05 Thread Robert Kaiser
Lawrence Mandel schrieb: I would assert that if a bug hasn't been fixed in 10 years it probably isn't important enough to spend time on now. You see what kind of reactions that brings up? ;-) I have tried something like that years ago in the SeaMonkey project, and after a lot of discussion

Re: [RFC] Cleaning up sessionstore.js

2013-11-28 Thread Robert Kaiser
David Rajchenbach-Teller schrieb: As part of bug 943352 followup, we are considering automatically cleanup some of the contents of sessionstore.js. Just for my understanding (I have commented to users with huge, e.g. ~100MB sessionstore.js in bugs as well), I thought we were working on a

Re: Reacting more strongly to low-memory situations in Firefox 25

2013-11-27 Thread Robert Kaiser
Benjamin Smedberg schrieb: On 11/25/13 8:15 PM, Bas Schouten wrote: I'm a little confused, when I force OOM my firefox build on 64-bit windows it -definitely- goes down before it reaches more than 3GB of working set. Am I missing something here? I think so. I did not mention working set at

Re: Reacting more strongly to low-memory situations in Firefox 25

2013-11-27 Thread Robert Kaiser
Jeff Gilbert schrieb: A 64-bit build would, but we don't ship those. A win64 machine running a 32-bit program can have 4GB of VM, though. OK, just wanted to make sure. Benjamin looked at 25.0 release data, AFAIK, so that's of course only 32bit, but if we look at Nightly data, I think a

Re: How to reduce the time m-i is closed?

2013-11-21 Thread Robert Kaiser
Philip Chee schrieb: I thought that there was a plan to pre-allocate on startup some memory for the minidump/crash reporter? For one thing, I'm not sure how far that went, for the other, we are calling a Windows function to generate the minidump and I'm not sure if we can reserve the memory

Re: How to reduce the time m-i is closed?

2013-11-20 Thread Robert Kaiser
Nicholas Nethercote schrieb: It also assumes that we can backout stuff to fix the problem; we tried that to some extent with the first OOM closure -- it is the standard response to test failure, of course -- but it didn't work. Yes, in the case of those OOM issues that caused this closure,

Re: [RFC] Should we persist dynamically generated iframes?

2013-11-13 Thread Robert Kaiser
David Rajchenbach-Teller schrieb: Or we could not save dynamic iframes that are not visible. It sounds to me personally like this would be the most sensible option. Do we know what, if anything, would break with this on the real web? Do we have any e.g. telemetry data for how often those are

Re: HWA and OMTC on Linux

2013-11-07 Thread Robert Kaiser
Nicholas Cameron schrieb: Our goal is (basically) to be OMTC everywhere I have been using OMTC on Linux for a while (with both prefs on, actually) and with the exception of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=934250 everything works really fine (but then, I'm on the newest

Re: Implementing Pepper since Google is dropping NPAPI for good

2013-09-26 Thread Robert Kaiser
Johnathan Nightingale schrieb: Benjamin blogged with what's actually happening: https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2013/09/24/plugin-activation-in-firefox/ Hmm, I would have expected that to appear on Planet Mozilla Projects, but I don't see it there... Robert Kaiser

Re: Detection of unlabeled UTF-8

2013-09-05 Thread Robert Kaiser
as the encoding to go with, and as we should be able to detect it easily enough, we should do it and switch to it when we find it. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: reminder: content processes (e10s) are now used by desktop Firefox

2013-08-06 Thread Robert Kaiser
) overwriting thumbnails created before with less useful background thumbnails. That might be just a real bug, though. :) Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: nsIDownloadManager replaced by Downloads.jsm

2013-08-06 Thread Robert Kaiser
Paolo Amadini schrieb: The Downloads back-end will not call any method of nsIDownloadManagerUI anymore So I cannot implement an alternative download manager any more? Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: reminder: content processes (e10s) are now used by desktop Firefox

2013-08-05 Thread Robert Kaiser
(esp. on the well, but private info can't be shown front). Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: reminder: content processes (e10s) are now used by desktop Firefox

2013-08-04 Thread Robert Kaiser
Mark Hammond schrieb: We ask the docShell to not allow plugins or media So that means that for any page with a video or a big Flash/Java thing on it, I would get a completely wrong thumbnail? That's unfortunate. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform

Re: reminder: content processes (e10s) are now used by desktop Firefox

2013-08-01 Thread Robert Kaiser
Gavin Sharp schrieb: This has exposed some e10s crashes that previously weren't exposed on desktop. I've filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=899758 to track them - please hang any other such crashes off that bug. If you're working in a component that has e10s-related crashes,

Re: OS.File and shutdown

2013-05-15 Thread Robert Kaiser
, and for the other, we want shutdown to be fast and the ideal situation is that you already have written everything when the shutdown request comes and you don't need to care. ;-) Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: Storage in Gecko

2013-05-15 Thread Robert Kaiser
crashes, but we surely can do better and reduce that kind of prefs mis-use in favor of indexedDB, etc. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Storage in Gecko

2013-05-09 Thread Robert Kaiser
probably read prefs in startup and before we can do anything useful with the launched Firefox, I wonder how much of a perf problem those large prefs tend to be, actually. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https

Re: Using a pre-processing flag to auto-disable features in later Beta versions

2013-04-25 Thread Robert Kaiser
can get more of that testing earlier and spare us the complications in early-beta or even early-release phases. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Using a pre-processing flag to auto-disable features in later Beta versions

2013-04-18 Thread Robert Kaiser
it should be in the source repo.) Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Forcing alphabetical order in moz.build files

2013-04-17 Thread Robert Kaiser
in SeaMonkey that is now in http://mxr.mozilla.org/comm-central/source/suite/moz.build#32 but the same is true for Firefox and others. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Replacing gcc 4.5 as the default Linux compiler?

2013-04-08 Thread Robert Kaiser
Gabriele Svelto schrieb: On 05/04/2013 01:49, Robert Kaiser wrote: Though its feature set seems to be quite helpful for us: http://lwn.net/Articles/543570/ Makes me think that we should at least experiment with it to make sure are issues we have with it will be fixed in a .1 or so and we'll

Re: Replacing gcc 4.5 as the default Linux compiler?

2013-04-04 Thread Robert Kaiser
and we'll be able to use that. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Bug 851818 - Modernizing the Enter Bug Entry Page in Bugzilla

2013-03-18 Thread Robert Kaiser
Jason Smith schrieb: *Ideas for what products we should remove* And how the XXX should users of those products file new bugs then? Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev

Re: improving access to telemetry data(Help Wanted)

2013-02-28 Thread Robert Kaiser
Telemetry. That might be combinations with FHR data, with crash data, or even other things. I for example would love to have stability-related data from all those sources be trimmed down by a dashboard to digestible this channel looks good/bad values. Robert Kaiser

Re: Let's never, ever, shut down NSS -- even in debug builds

2013-02-02 Thread Robert Kaiser
Philip Chee schrieb: Doesn't SQLite come with its own set of issues? I vaguely remember the urlclassifier code moving from SQLite to something else because of performance issues. Always depends on what you are using it for, just like any technology. Robert Kaiser

Re: Let's never, ever, shut down NSS -- even in debug builds

2013-01-30 Thread Robert Kaiser
Robert Relyea schrieb: Switching to SQLite would make this a non-issue. Is there a plan to do this? An open bug? Someone working on it? Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo

Re: Super-review, what shall we do with you?

2012-11-25 Thread Robert Kaiser
. If we wouldn't have caught that problem with applying proper sr, our problem lies deeper, of course. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: UA string: Touch or Tablet again

2012-11-14 Thread Robert Kaiser
. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Proposal: Not shipping prefixed APIs on the release channel

2012-11-09 Thread Robert Kaiser
the same principles we're using elsewhere). Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Proposal: move content JS interpretation to a background thread

2012-11-09 Thread Robert Kaiser
Firefox work well with the parallelization it brings. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: UA Override List Policy

2012-09-26 Thread Robert Kaiser
to remove a pref before actually shipping. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Adding hardware tokens to UA string

2012-09-18 Thread Robert Kaiser
with this at all (and there are good arguments in this thread against it), I think this should be something exposed from the navigator object in JS only (e.g. navigator.manufacturer=ZTE, navigator.vendor=Vivo, navigator.devicename=foobar or similar). Robert Kaiser

Re: Moving Away from Makefile's

2012-08-29 Thread Robert Kaiser
with just python ones. We definitely should go for nicer conditionals with all this. :) Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: STR Needed Keyword?

2012-08-28 Thread Robert Kaiser
- and I work in the stability group. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Proposed policy change: reusability of tests by other browsers

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Kaiser
, this is for users. And as we want to serve the web and users, it's a benefit for us. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: LinuxGL widget backend for Mozilla

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Kaiser
getting rid of X completely and using Wayland as the main graphics output base layer, and Wayland being all about OpenGL, some of this work may even have tier-1 impact in the longer run. :) Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform

Re: Moving Away from Makefile's

2012-08-22 Thread Robert Kaiser
watching my CPU usage, a lot of the build time is spent in I/O wait when using spinning disks - SSDs improve that hugely). Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Increase in mozilla-inbound bustage due to people not using Try

2012-08-16 Thread Robert Kaiser
to delete larger trees, even more so when they are VMs, which we have eliminated from out build pools nowadays, though). Emulating POSIX upon that already slow I/O makes it even worse, though. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform

Re: Verification Culture

2012-08-12 Thread Robert Kaiser
some exploratory testing of major new features as time allows, but just verifying existing test cases that often are running automatically anyhow isn't a good use of time, I guess. Robert Kaiser ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform