The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 214: Apr 29th, 2020

Pandemic edition! Mike is streaming from home! Let’s hope the wifi holds out
Going back to no background music. Better?
Bug 1630234 - About:newtab does not maintain the scroll position after navigating back to the page - Notes
Telemetry network request during tests
Bug 1633913 - Eliminate re-construction of Top Sites and Pocket stories when about:home startup cache loads before Activity Stream initializes
Gecko as a web application framework
- Positron
- Qbrt
rr and gdb debugging
gdb tips, Ctrl+x+a will give you a GUI. Ctrl+x+a again will get you back to normal
./mach xpcshell-test /path/to/test.js to run xpcshell tests
./mach try fuzzy –pernosco –rebuild 5
Pernosco is a web frontend for rr that makes it so you can debug a build with rr from within a CI system as if it where run on a physical machine
Landed some revisions
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Fission - Read more about it
mozconfigwrapper - A Wrapper to keep different mozconfigs
MyQOnly Mikes Addon for showing how many reviews are in your review queue - Source at Github
Mikes Firefox Color Theme
Codetribute - Go here to find Mentored bugs to hack on, ie good for beginners
Check if a service you are using, has been part of a breach via Firefox Monitor