Fission functionality is not platform-restricted as of right now for all desktop platforms (mobile not there yet). As Bobby said, WebRender dependency is solely for the memory reduction goal.
-Neha. On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 2:37 PM Bobby Holley <bobbyhol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 11:11 AM Nika Layzell <n...@thelayzells.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:55 PM Alexis Beingessner < > a.beingess...@gmail.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Is dogfoodability at all platform-specific for fission? i.e. is windows > > > the only platform that is really actively developed/maintained? (as > would > > > make sense at this stage) > > > > > > > The platform shouldn't have much impact, as we're generally working on > > non-platform-specific functionality at this point. The most testing has > > been done on Linux at this stage, though we're still very-much in early > > days. I wouldn't recommend using fission for day-to-day browsing, as > sites > > with many cross-site iframes can be very slow to load and quite unstable. > > > > > > > More concretely, I was under the impression that fission had webrender > as > > > a dependency, is that mandatory? Is it actually enforced by the fission > > > pref? (webrender's support of different platforms has varying levels of > > > quality, although it is generally dogfoodable on all major platforms) > > > > > > > We don't have a hard webrender dependency, and the browser should work > > mostly-the-same on all platforms. Some edge cases with mouse event > > targeting may work better with webrender enabled. > > > > I believe the primary issue is that we need WebRender to hit our Fission > memory targets. > > > > > > > > > > > > On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:43 PM Nika Layzell <n...@thelayzells.com> > > wrote: > > > > > >> Looks like gmail chewed up the formatting :-S > > >> > > >> Published gdocs link: > > >> > > >> > > > https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTuGpZNthNxk0OYRyBjiHpaKnyKdmb9AompceuncvFmjeXB0bfk-L_LSlQmRaqiqx8vKif-LzdnE2F8/pub > > >> > > >> > > >> On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 1:33 PM Nika Layzell <n...@thelayzells.com> > > wrote: > > >> > > >> > Hey all! > > >> > > > >> > It's been a while (7 months!) since the first Fission newsletter, > but > > >> > we've made some exciting progress we'd love to tell you about! > > >> > > > >> > Enabling Fission on Nightly > > >> > > > >> > It's now possible to turn on Fission in nightly builds of Firefox by > > >> > setting fission.autostart pref to true. Fission can also be enabled > > for > > >> > running tests using mach test … --enable-fission. > > >> > > > >> > When Fission is enabled, each cross-site iframe is loaded in a > > different > > >> > content process, meaning lots of different processes participate in > > >> drawing > > >> > a single tab. The hover tooltip for a Fission-enabled tab is > annotated > > >> with > > >> > a "[F …]" containing a series of process IDs, as shown in the image > > >> below, > > >> > serving as a visual verification of an active Fission-enabled > session. > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > We currently do not recommend trying to use Fission for day-to-day > > >> > browsing, as there are still known stability issues. However, if you > > do > > >> try > > >> > it out, please file bugs/issues blocking fission-dogfooding > > >> > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=fission-dogfooding>. > > >> > > > >> > Fission Mochitests on mozilla-central > > >> > > > >> > Fission Mochitests were recently enabled as tier-2 jobs on > > >> mozilla-central. > > >> > This will allow us to run tests with Fission enabled on > > infrastructure, > > >> and > > >> > prevent landing new features or code which don't support Fission. > > Tests > > >> > which do not currently successfully pass are marked as fail-if = > > Fission > > >> > or skip-if = Fission. > > >> > > > >> > We'd love your help migrating tests to run with Fission enabled! > Here > > >> are > > >> > a couple of handy tips for making your test Fission-compatible: > > >> > > > >> > 1. > > >> > > > >> > Use SpecialPowers.spawn(target, [args…], async (args…) => { … }), > > to > > >> > run code in potentially cross-origin iframes, as they may be in a > > >> different > > >> > process. This API is similar to the ContentTask.spawn API used by > > >> > browser-chrome mochitests. > > >> > 2. > > >> > > > >> > Wait for document loads to complete before trying to run code > > inside > > >> > the target window, as a process switch may occur after the frame > or > > >> browser > > >> > is created. For frames in content, this usually means waiting for > > the > > >> > load event. > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > These tests may also be run on the tryserver, however they are > > currently > > >> > excluded from the default set. They are called M-fis, and can be > found > > >> in ./mach > > >> > try fuzzy --full. > > >> > > > >> > Fixing these Mochitests is a goal of our next major milestone, M4! > > >> There's > > >> > a ton of awesome stuff happening in M4, which you can read about on > > the > > >> > wiki (https://wiki.mozilla.org/Project_Fission#M4_goals). > > >> > > > >> > Fission Talk and Demo > > >> > > > >> > At the 2019 Whistler All-Hands, Nika gave a talk & demo about the > > >> Fission > > >> > architecture. This talk is publicly available on Air Mozilla. > > >> > > > >> > You can watch the talk here: > > >> > > > >> > > > https://onlinexperiences.com/Launch/Event.htm?ShowKey=44908&DisplayItem=E334923 > > >> > > > >> > The slides are here: > > >> > > > >> > > > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1equyaJTujM4xF-ucoMZiLE-lo0lbHKFMliUfPE4_1B8/edit?usp=sharing > > >> > > > >> > And… So Much More! > > >> > > > >> > A ton has happened in Fission over those 7 months, and it would be > > >> > impossible to cover all of the awesome work everyone has been > > >> contributing > > >> > to make Fission happen. We just want to say a massive thank you to > > >> > everyone who has helped with Fission - writing patches, doing > reviews, > > >> > planning, and more! We hope to do brief update newsletters like this > > one > > >> > with a better cadence, so hopefully there'll be another one of these > > in > > >> > your inbox soon. > > >> > > > >> > Let's keep fission-on! > > >> > > > >> > - The Fission Team. > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> dev-platform mailing list > > >> dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > dev-platform mailing list > > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
