Re: Firefox Profiler now supports recording IPC messages

2019-10-30 Thread Gerald Squelart
Unfortunately using the pref doesn't always work. Instead, go to the Firefox hamburger menu -> Web Developer -> Enable Profiler Toolbar Icon. It shows up as a small stopwatch. As Greg said, we're still in transition, sorry for the confusion! ;-) - Gerald On Thursday, October 31, 2019 at

Re: Firefox Profiler now supports recording IPC messages

2019-10-30 Thread Greg Tatum
Thanks for the clarification, Olli. We're in a bit of a transition process of moving the addon's implementation into mozilla central with a direct integration. I'll try to prioritize finishing up that transition as it's a bit confusing as new features are landing in the popup, but not in the addon

Re: Firefox Profiler now supports recording IPC messages

2019-10-30 Thread smaug
FWIW, apparently the UI is in the devtools profiler UI, not in the profiler addon. https://profiler.firefox.com/ still tells users to install the addon from there. I was told that one can get the button similar to the addon by enabling devtools.performance.popup.enabled boolean pref and then

Firefox Profiler now supports recording IPC messages

2019-10-30 Thread Jim Porter
Recently, we landed a new feature for the Firefox Profiler: the ability to record IPC messages for monitored threads. This should be useful for evaluating IPC-related performance issues as we make progress on Project Fission. To enable this feature, just check the "IPC Messages" feature in the