The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 209: Mar 25th, 2020

Links

• Watch this episode on Air Mozilla
• Evernote Agenda

Topics

• Pandemic edition! Mike is streaming from home! Let’s hope the wifi holds out (It did!)
• Background music
• Bug 1184701 - PageThumbsProtocol (moz-page-thumb://) does not work in the content process - Notes
• Bug 1614502 - Add a mechanism for producing a static version of about:home periodically that can be cached for startup.
• Applying a 2 year old patch can be tricky
• To help reproduce a Performance issue (around 1h41 in this episode):
  • Get a copy of Nightly
  • If you can reproduce the issue, visit Profiler
  • Then press the “Enable Profiler Menu Button” that should put a stopwatch in your toolbar
  • Press the stopwatch icon, then “Start recording”
  • Then do what causes the performance issue
  • When you have had the problem, press the Capture button in the Stopwatch
  • After a while that will show you a site from https://profiler.firefox.com that is very … colorful
  • If you then want to submit this capture, press the green Publish button in the right corner.
  • Then submit a but with the link or contact Mike somehow, this makes it easier for them profile the issue
• To help reproduce a memory issue, you can do so via the Profiler aswell, but that is experimental for now
  • Instead go to : about:memory in nightly or Release
  • Then press the Measure button to the left
  • Then press Measure and save to save the output and share with Mike/Mozilla via either a bug or somehow
• Rate this episode

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Resource Links

• Felicia Bacon
• npb hacks on the SpiderMonkey JS engine
• Compiler Compiler live stream
• Try out Mozilla VPN
• Firefox Source Code Documentation
• mozconfigwrapper: A Wrapper to manage different mozconfigs
• MyQOnly: Mike's addon to track your review queues on Mozilla Phabricator
• Mike's Firefox Color Theme
• Firefox Monitor: Stay informed on new data breach of services you're using online
• Create a free Bugzilla account
• Codetribute: Find a good first bug to start contributing on a Mozilla projects (Firefox, Thunderbird, and more). See the above link for creating a Bugzilla account first!
• Nathan Baggs livehacking / reverse engineering
• Alessandro Castellani has been streaming himself livehacking on Thunderbird
• Emilio hacking on Firefox