The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 209: Mar 25th, 2020

Pandemic edition! Mike is streaming from home! Let’s hope the wifi holds out (It did!)
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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
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