Re: PSA (Windows): Startup Skeleton UI Enabled on Nightly

ence is set to true, though instead of seeing the UI I get a blank > > white window. I remember, I tested this feature like a month or two ago > and > > it did work before. Is that expected? If not, please let me know what > > information is needed to track this down and I'll file a bug for it. > > > > Also, regarding the registry values, I only see one for the theme with a > > key referring to the path of the Nightly executable. How will you handle > > different profiles? > > > > Besides those issues, I'm really happy to see this coming. It improves > > perceived start up speed a lot, especially on less powerful machines. > > > > Sebastian > > ___ > > 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 > -- Jared Wein Senior Staff Software Engineer, Firefox Mozilla Corporation ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Dogfooding Warp

till utilizes the backend of IonMonkey so we don't > feel it has earned the WarpMonkey name just yet. > [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613592 > [2] > https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/08/the-baseline-interpreter-a-faster-js-interpreter-in-firefox-70/ >

Re: Experimental Features in about:preferences

bastian > > On Friday, June 26, 2020 at 6:14:23 AM UTC+2, Jared Wein (Mozilla) wrote: > > Hello, > > > > The Firefox Preferences (about:preferences) is gaining a new section > called > > "Firefox Experiments" ("Nightly Experiments" on Nightly bu

Experimental Features in about:preferences

ource-docs.mozilla.org/toolkit/components/featuregates/featuregates/index.html -- Jared Wein Staff Software Engineer, Firefox Mozilla Corporation ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform

Re: Removing the XUL grid implementation

aniel > Holbert and Emilio Cobos Àlvarez for the platform work that made this > possible! > > Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns. > > Cheers, > Tim > ___ > firefox-dev mailing list > firefox-...@mozilla.or

Re: New Lockwise Password Manager UI now on autoland

On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 1:30 PM Simon Sapin wrote: > On 19/07/2019 19:14, Nicolas B. Pierron wrote: > > How does that work for migrating password from the current password > manager? > > As far as I understand Lockwise-in-Firefox *is* the current password > manager, only with a new UI similar to

New Lockwise Password Manager UI now on autoland

Hi folks, I have just landed patches in bug 1560431 to enable the new Lockwise Password Manager by default in Nightly builds. We are planning to ship the feature in Firefox 70 and will enable it by default for all branches in bug 1560433 once QA has signed off on it. If you are a current user of

Re: Improving our usage of Bugzilla

One of the things that I have liked about Bugzilla is the lack of needing to set something as a "bug" or an "enhancement". It seems this bug vs. feature debate wastes unnecessary time. I have always liked thinking that if Firefox is missing some feature, that in of itself is a bug. To me, it keeps

Re: PSA: Please use ChromeUtils.generateQI for JS QueryInterface methods

Great! :) On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 2:58 PM Kris Maglione wrote: > Already done. :) https://bugzil.la/1460092 > > On Fri, May 18, 2018 at 02:48:20PM -0400, Jared Wein wrote: > >Have you looked in to adding an eslint rule for this? The eslint rule[1] > >tha

Re: PSA: Please use ChromeUtils.generateQI for JS QueryInterface methods

Have you looked in to adding an eslint rule for this? The eslint rule[1] that recommends usage of ChromeUtils.defineModuleGetter instead of XPCOMUtils.defineLazyModuleGetter has been very useful. [1] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/da499aac682d0bbda5829327b60a865cbc491611/tools/lint/esli

Re: New Policy: Marking Bugzilla bugs for features riding behind a pref

I have a bug that will introduce a pref/feature-flag, but that is just one bug that blocks a meta bug. The meta bug covers the whole feature. Should these flags get set on the meta bug or on the bug that introduces the pref? Testing the specific bug that introduces the pref won't provide much cove

Photon Engineering Newsletter #13

(via https://msujaws.wordpress.com/2017/08/18/photon-engineering-newsletter-13/ ) This week I’m taking over for Dolske as he takes a vacation to view the eclipse. This is issue #13

Re: Intent to unship: HTML scoped style sheets (

I have filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1375224 and attached a patch to remove our dependency on

Re: Intent to unship: HTML scoped style sheets (

Hey Cam, We use a scoped stylesheet for styling the popup for [1]. We chose this route to limit performance impact as well as limit our temporary stylesheet from affecting other parts of the browser UI. Will your removal also remove support in the chrome/parent process? [1] http://searchfox.org/

Re: Quantum Flow Engineering Newsletter #5

But what we *can* do is have communications with the WebRender devs to see that our approaches (which have been mostly vetted by graphics and layout people already) will continue to perform well (and possibly better) in WebRender. On Tue, Apr 18, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Justin Dolske wrote: > > > On Tu

Re: Startup JS debugging (sometimes) possible via Browser Toolbox

Yes, we support watches in the new debugger UI now. The new debugger UI is used by default in the Browser Content Toolbox, and it is pretty nice and shiny. Cheers, Jared On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: > On 13/03/2017 16:48, J. Ryan Stinnett wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 9,

Re: Startup JS debugging (sometimes) possible via Browser Toolbox

This is very useful! Thank you for adding this! On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 2:11 PM, Dave Townsend wrote: > This is awesome, thanks for implementing this! > > On Wed, Mar 8, 2017 at 11:09 AM, J. Ryan Stinnett > wrote: > >> With bug 1275942 in Firefox 55, a new Firefox CLI option was added: >> `--wai

Re: Visual Studio Code recommended extensions

Does the ESLint support hook in to the mozilla-eslint configuration? Can you please update https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/ESLint or https://wiki.mozilla.org/DevTools/CodingStandards#JS_linting_with_ESLint with any steps required to configure this plugin? Thanks! - jared On Thu, Feb 23,

Re: Should &&/|| really be at the end of lines?

After dealing with bugs that only happen in PGO builds, I would be worried about bugs in the code-formatting-rewriter. The value doesn't seem worth the risk to me. - jared On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 5:44 PM, wrote: > On Saturday, February 18, 2017 at 9:29:06 AM UTC+11, Bobby Holley wrote: > > On F

Re: Please don't add JS implemented telemetry probes to hot code paths. (eom)

The original email looks to be related to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338891 and https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1338902 though I agree that the message could have been explained a little better. - Jared On Sun, Feb 12, 2017 at 12:41 PM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote: >

Re: Who loves multiple selection feature in editor?

We currently use multiple selections for highlighting the domain in the location bar, as well as find-in-page "highlight all". What would you recommend we do if this is removed? I don't see how we would implement "highlight all" without it. Thanks, Jared On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Johnny St

Re: What if you could reinvent Firefox theming?

abilities (2.4%). A notable response from 2.9% of respondents was to introduce a live theme editor in Firefox with sharing capabilities, so that theme creators can take existing themes to tweak to their own liking and (re-)share with others. Thanks, Jared Wein and Mike de Boer on behalf of

What if you could reinvent Firefox theming?

image and some text colors. We would like to merge these into a single system that provides the right amount of balance while also easier to use than what we already have. Can you help us out by filling out the following survey? https://goo.gl/forms/qUqQ4cAJ3oJueD5c2 Thanks, Mike de Boer and Jared W

Re: Rust 1.10 (to be) required to build Firefox with --enable-rust

On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 2:13 PM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:54 AM, Stefan Sitter > wrote: > > > On 10.08.2016 17:28, Gregory Szorc wrote: > > > >> I'll be marking that bug wontfix as soon as I get in front of a > >> computer with my BMO credentials. We plan to have no more

Re: Checkin-needed requests - Please include complete information in the commit message :)

Do we need autoland to land each patch independently? If I have three disparate patches that I can land right now, should I use mozreview to land them and use 3x the infra or use checkin-needed and their checkin will likely be coalesced? This is the position that I face often and is why I choose t

Re: 32-bit developer edition?

On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 11:02 AM, Javaun Moradi wrote: > +Clarkbw, who runs Dev Edition. > > Expansion of 64 bit was on hold pending the release of 47, where we had > some critical sandboxing issues fixed and (conveniently) the Widevine CDM > also hit that timeframe for video support. > > It’s an

Re: PSA: Requiring annotations for test support files required by multiple test directories

Is the goal moving forward to have "support-files" annotations alongside the test that requires them instead of global to the manifest file? Will this allow a further optimization of only installing the support-file for tests are being requested? Thanks, Jared On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:55 PM, C

Re: #include sorting: case-sensitive or -insensitive?

We need to be careful with shuffling around #includes as there can be ordering dependencies that are not obvious at a glance. Further, I don't think this is something worthwhile until we have a script that enforces said ordering. Thanks, Jared On Mon, Mar 28, 2016 at 5:20 PM, Nicholas Alexander

Re: Just Autoland It

If a patch only touches JS and CSS, could tryserver use the archive build implementation to generate faster try builds? On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 2:16 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 10:37 PM, David Rajchenbach-Teller < > dtel...@mozilla.com> wrote: > >> That sounds like it's go

Re: Dominator tree memory analysis now in Nightly

Thanks Nick. >From your screenshot, there are a lot of instances of "objects > Array", "objects > Object", etc. Is the a way to display the variable name used for those objects? Also, what is the plan for making tools like the Memory view appear in a default install? In other words, without havin

Re: APZ enabled on Fennec nightly

Nice feedback on Reddit about the changes. Great job! https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/3wo4rm/nightlyandroid_scroll_speed_is_improving/ - jared On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 12:39 PM, Kartikaya Gupta wrote: > Thanks for trying it out and reporting these issues! I've filed them > as separate

Re: Voting in BMO

DevTools does something like this with UserVoice. I don't think we should get rid of voting unless we replace it with something else (UserVoice is a good alternative). There are plenty of people that recommend others to "vote" on bugs that they want prioritized, and us removing voting will make it

Re: status-firefox41: affected

Bugzilla has defaulted to marking new bugs as status-firefoxXX: affected. I'm not sure when it started but this is why. Hope that helps, Jared On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Philip Chee wrote: > Why are these SeaMonkey bugs flagged status-firefox41: affected > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/

Re: Treeherder UI performance much worse in Nightly vs Chrome

How was the performance when APZ + e10s was turned on the other day? I imagine that will have a big impact on scrolling performance for treeherder since it's a pretty heavy JS page. On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Mike Hoye wrote: > On 2015-04-23 10:43 AM, Ed Morley wrote: > >> Scrolling fluid

Re: Project Silk on Desktop

Within the small circle of Mozilla contributors it may feel spammy or repetitive, but I wouldn't be surprised for people outside of the Mozilla project to think of b2g and Firefox desktop as both separate userbases and separate impacts. On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Mason Chang wrote: > Yeah

Re: New QE-Verify Flag in Bugzilla

Hi Marc, Can you shed some background on the change in name from QA to QE? Does QE stand for Quality Engineering, whereas QA is Quality Assurance? What are the differences between the two? Do we now have two different teams/departments? Thanks, Jared - Original Message - > From: "Marc

Re: Extending the text-overflow/overflow property to support fading out

- Original Message - > From: "Jared Wein" > To: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2013 5:58:34 PM > Subject: Re: Extending the text-overflow/overflow property to support fading > out > > - Original Message - > > From: &

Re: Extending the text-overflow/overflow property to support fading out

- Original Message - > From: "Robert O'Callahan" > To: "Jonathan Watt" > Cc: dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2013 10:11:55 PM > Subject: Re: Extending the text-overflow/overflow property to support fading > out > > I'm pretty sure an unconditional mask with a

Notice of browser and toolkit theme renamings

Hi, I wanted to let you all know about bug 842913, of which I just landed the patch for on mozilla-inbound. The goal of the bug is to make the process of working with the /browser and /toolkit themes easier for new contributors. The previous names of {winstripe,pinstripe,gnomestripe} were neve