In the interest of still trying to fix this for ff10, can we identify what portion of add support for the npapi core animation drawing model. I have experience doing performance optimization on firefoxs browser engine and proposing new web. I also learnt a lot from bas schouten and benoit girard as they showed me the tools that they have been working on recently. This is a quick write up to summarize my, and jeffs, experience, using rr to debug a fairly rare intermittent reftest failure. Project snappy will make improvements to firefox desktop responsiveness by. The browser is closer to standards of the web defined by the w3c. Firefox tab strip and toolbar area is one of our biggest areas of concern when it comes to snappiness.
Benoit girardcompositor, performance, ali juma, george. Overview of the gecko rendering pipeline benoit girard. Shared components used by firefox and other mozilla software, including handling of web content. For the most part, 3rd party developers create virtually all firefox extensions. Benoit works from toronto and is also on the graphics team. Mozcampeu2012buddyprogrambenoit girard mozillawiki. Steve fink mentioned that he had a profiler for javascript code and so forth. Also artists like benoit girard and michel dumont undertake translations of works they are interested in performing or directing. Id like to take this opportunity to thank benoit girard, anton kovalyov, alex crichton, the mozilla snappy and sps folks and whoever else contributed for making the awesome gecko profiler possible, first as an addon and now even in the developer tools of the latest firefox nightlies. Id assigned to summary blocking b2g whiteboard resolution. To date, i can probably count the number of extensions that mozilla has actually created on two hands, and maybe one foot for the recent features that mozilla. Literary translation is taught at universities across the nation, usually within french, english or comparative literature departments. Thanks to jerry shih, boris chou, jeff hwang, mike lee, kartikaya gupta, benoit girard, michael wu, ben turner, and milan sreckovic for their help in making silk happen. If you think this addon violates mozillas addon policies or has security or privacy issues, please report these issues to mozilla using this form.
Developers building apps for firefox os should be able to test them without having to deploy them to actual devices. The performance tool gives you insight into your sites general responsiveness, javascript and layout performance. The ability to muteunmute tabs or determine which tabs are playing audio is a commonly requested feature in web browsers. Many thirdparty download sites host firefox 33 before releases and while it may be tempting to download it from those sources, it is possible that this is not the. You can also watch the meeting live in open video at air mozilla. Myk is a principal software architect and inhouse entrepreneur at mozilla. Kyle huey mozilla, benoit girard mozilla contributors. Bas works from holland and is on the graphics team. The mozilla reps program is open to all mozillians who are 18 years of age and above. In single process configuration of desktop firefox, which. Currently this event loop is servicing a lot of events including page layout. Mozilla corporations notforprofit parent, the mozilla foundation. You find all details on benoit girard s blog post about the new feature.
So to emphasize, if you compile a lot and only have one or two machines on. Its dominated by mozilla employees at the moment but not meant to stay that way. French mozilla translation list frenchmozillacorrection. I was told this list might be interested in knowing this since i heard the cdt is tested against mozillacentral from time to time. Sep 5th, 2012 for more information on the eideticker software im referring to, see this entry. I have experience doing performance optimization on firefoxs browser. To find your way around the inspector, heres a quick tour of the ui from firefox 62 onwards, you can split the rules view out into its own pane, separate from the other tabs on the css pane this is called 3pane mode. Download the free mozilla firefox web browser i have been using mozilla firefox for well over two years now and i find it a much better browser than microsoft internet explorer. Sign up for your own profile on github, the best place to host code, manage projects, and build software alongside 40 million developers. Firefox developer edition is the blazing fast browser that offers cutting edge developer tools and latest features like css grid support and framework debugging. To date, i can probably count the number of extensions that mozilla has actually created on two hands, and maybe one foot for the recent features that mozilla has turned into extensions. Replace mozilla banner image use in reftest for bug 28811 with a plain blue image. The mozilla environment is made of gecko, xulrunner and firefox or firefox os.
So to emphasize, if you compile a lot and only have one or two. Jun 26, 2012 as we move ahead with new projects to improve firefox for android, eideticker will continue to be useful in making sure that using our browser is the best experience that it can be, especially combined with other tools like benoit girard s sampling profiler. View benoit girards profile on linkedin, the worlds largest professional community. Jul 10th, 2012 for more information on the eideticker software im referring to, see this entry i just merged a new approach ive been using to simulate touch events into the master branch of eideticker called orangutan. Aug 14, 2011 mozilla has posted firefox 6 final letting you download the new browser ahead of its august 16th official release and firefox 6 offers more control over permissions, faster start times, a plugin check feature, improved html5 support and more. Gecko, html, css, layout, dom, scripts, images, networking, etc.
Profiles are updated and amended for currency and accuracy. I looked into the state of the art recently and found that the existing desktop test environments, like b2g desktop, the b2g emulators, and firefoxs responsive design view, are either difficult to configure or significantly different from firefox os on a phone. The regular core animation drawing model npdrawingmodelcoreanimation does not work well for browser that dont hook ca layers into a layer tree. Gecko is the html display engine, and also the browser of firefox os, while gaia is the user interface. It would be nice if firefox supported the default two finger swipe. A comprehensive survey of canadian theatre history, including entries on theatres, plays, playwrights, actors, directors, designers, and critics, with commentaries on productions by academics and theatre practitioners. So it seemed like getting interested parties together to talk about one profiler to rule them all would be good. Like most desktop applications, firefox is driven by an event loop. Benoit picked up a side project to implement a native profiler in to firefox. The tool then shows you an overview of the things the browser was doing to render your site over the profile, and a graph of the frame rate over the profile. A mozillian since 1999, hes contributed to the web app developer initiative, pluotsorbet, open web apps, firefox os simulator, jetpack, raindrop, snowl, personas, firefox, thunderbird, and bugzilla. This week the last piece of the cdt project generation was merged in the mozilla repo. Benoit girard bug 921212 rotate buffer in place to avoid gralloc surface allocation.
Believe it nicely wipes lingering around a game slows down thousands of four cars rigidly driving them, their rewards. Xulrunner is the interpreter of xul code in gecko, the language dinterface of. Ui for the gecko profiler javascript 27 20 znccmdnotify. A few of the new updates are updated address bar functionality, a redesigned web developer menu, an improved firefox sync and faster startup time and. It provides many new functions to facilitate browsing the internet. Well be focusing on the mobile launch, as well as parks.
It would get too technical to get into details only this much. Firefox 3 is available for download on mozilla s website see resources at bottom. Issues with web page layout probably go here, while firefox user interface issues belong in the firefox product. I was told this list might be interested in knowing this since i heard the cdt is tested against mozilla central from time to time. The nonprofit behind firefox is fighting for a healthy internet for all. I wanted to see if i could debug faster with the previous lessons learned. This profiler is used to find areas of jank within the browser. With an eye to eventually getting this into the mozilla build process, i. How to install firefox composer firefox support forum. More on this to come, but just a quick note that the clientside url schema for the eideticker dashboard has been changed, as we now gather benchmarks for more than one device samsung galaxy nexus benchmarks ftw. Getting a profile of the browser is only a click away when the browser becomes unresponsive. Before you become a mozilla rep, you must follow our learning process so that you can become a good community coordinator in your region.
Firefox 3 and html 5 functions to use the browser as an. For windows please use the visual studio project generator. Dec 24, 2014 download jan 12, 2014 telecharger mozilla firefox. Theres still a lot of be learned about how to use rr effectively so im hoping sharing this will help others. A waterloo intern, in toronto, who will be working on out of process plugins for mac os x. Oct 14, 2014 this new feature provides a smoother browsing experience while consuming less resources. With the performance tool you create a recording, or profile, of your site over a period of time. Benoit girard compositor, performance, ali juma, george wrightcanvas2d, mason chang, david anderson, christopher lord, john daggetttextfonts, benoit jacobgfxgl, joe drew, vladimir vukicevic source dirs. This specification allows browsers to muteunmute instances of cooperating plugins and determine which instances are playing.
Right now firefox makes opengl call on the main thread on all platforms so its up. Oct 14, 2014 it is recommended to download firefox 33 directly from mozilla, either by using the browsers update feature or by downloading it directly from the mozilla website or ftp server. Since his start he has played in nearly 100 plays including the works of dumas, corneille, faulkner, marcel dube, racine and priestly. I specialize in web infrastructure and performance. Community coordinators are not a power structure over other mozillians, instead they are here to help, empower and motivate. Benoit girard from the the snappy projects team implemented the. For more information on eideticker, feel free to visit its homepage on wiki. Ultimately, silk aims to create a smoother experience across firefox and the web.