Rephrase!!!!!! What I meant (or tried to convey was) was to have a version
- Maybe for a specific locale with only that locales language file in the build (for that one) - With certain features removed (I know we need to discuss....a lot on these...) - Remove certain fonts/resource files! (Maybe lower density fallbacks?) I most certainly didn't want to say the present one is not optimized!!!!! Also by faster I meant light on resources which I know most certainly not the case! I promise to be more careful with my choice of words next time (and try not to be flowery with the language I use!) On Wed, Jun 24, 2015, 1:18 PM Aaron Train <[email protected]> wrote: > This is an introductory mail to announce our (nascent) initiative towards > a new project to make a slimmed down leaner and faster Firefox for Android > targeted towards bandwidth conscious markets > > > This is something we should be doing already, if not we have failed. I > fear this will tarnish Firefox for Android if it’s advertised as the other > ‘faster’ version of Firefox for Android. > > Aaron Train > Sr. QE Engineer > Mozilla Corporation > https://quality.mozilla.org > > On Jun 24, 2015, at 1:03 PM, Rabimba Karanjai <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi All, > > This is an introductory mail to announce our (nascent) initiative towards > a new project to make a slimmed down leaner and faster Firefox for Android > targeted towards bandwidth conscious markets. Initially conceptualized in > Mozilla Taskforce MeetUp India, the idea was to make a feature streamlined > version of Firefox for Android which is not only slimmer in download size, > but also considerably lighter on the device, then it got extended with > participation from Mozilla Bangladesh Community too! The name is yet on the > wind so call it Fennec Mini / Firefox Mini / Chota Firefox whatever you > want. > > After a few initial meeting quickly a lot of ideas and features (or the > ones we want to strip and improve!) started piling up. And now we think we > can take it further and wanted to share this with the all of us in the > community for feedback and participation! > > Most of the discussions till date can be found out here : > https://participation.etherpad.mozilla.org/firefox-mini? > As well as the videos of the 2nd and 3rd hangout : > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0egUUvg7qA and > https://youtu.be/qlJ6jBLwehg > > In short with very precise task points what we right now plan to do is > > > - Make/tweak the build system to automatically strip down features we > want to be removed from the build > - To do that we need > - A list of the features we have identified *reduces the *apt size > for the browser. Not just any feature, but only those which > significantly > does this > - A way to extend granular support in the build system so that we > can implement a way so that we can flag a feature to be removed > (without > breaking the build). In short a lot of struggle with grade too. > - Extend the test suites to cover our scenarios > - Handle all the regression woes that will come with that (and all > the accompanying necessary evils…) > - Work with specific locale builds (so excluding not-needed language > packs) and also take inspiration from this kind of bug > <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1063868> (in short try > to see what happened here and make that happen for other resources) > > > And a lot of other things which we should discuss a lot more into future > hangouts! > > We would love to hear your ideas about this and to see you take part in > this! > > Regards, > Rabimba Karanjai > > _______________________________________________ > mobile-firefox-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/mobile-firefox-dev > > >
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