I was looking forward to this, thanks!
Is tab warming taken into account, so that when hovering a background tab, its 
process priority will go back to normal?

Love seeing your work Mike!



בתאריך יום שלישי, 29 בינואר 2019 בשעה 20:33:41 UTC+2, מאת Mike Conley:
> (cross-posted to dev-platform and firefox-dev)
> 
> Hi folks,
> 
> Just a heads up that in bug 1476981
> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476981>, I just autolanded a
> patch that, when hopefully merged, will enable the Process Priority Manager
> for Firefox Desktop on Nightly on Windows.
> 
> The Process Priority Manager lowers the OS-level process priority for any
> content processes that host *only* background tabs. As soon as one tab in a
> content process is brought to the foreground, the priority is brought back
> to the normal level.
> 
> This should allow foreground tabs to get more CPU cycles dedicated to them,
> which we hope will let users get more things done more quickly in those
> foreground tabs.
> 
> The pref is holding on Nightly to help us shake out bugs. If you notice
> any, bug 1522879 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522879> is
> the right metabug to block.
> 
> If you have questions or concerns, please respond to this thread on
> dev-platform (to centralize the conversation).
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -Mike

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