The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 260: Sep 1st, 2021

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• Watch this episode on Air Mozilla
• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• Fixed the Joy of Coding Episode Guide theme that was broken due to a Jekyll Theme update that probably happened on GitHub’s side of things
• Bug 1724199 - 10.09 - 9.23% sessionrestore_no_auto_restore / sessionrestore_no_auto_restore + 1 more (Windows) regression on Tue August 3 2021
  • Let’s see if preloadedState is causing the issue. I will post the results in a comment in the bug.

• Bug 1725276 - Intermittent docshell/test/browser/browser_TopLevelNavigationDelegate.js

  Test timed out -

• Question time!
  • Have Firefox devs sent patches to Chromium and have Google devs sent patches over to Firefox?
    • Yes to both.
    • Igalia
    • WebRTC as well
  • What song (songs) has been playing in the back of your head lately?
    • Dinosaur Pile-up called 11:11
    • k.flay “Dating my Dad”
  • What in your life do you feel grateful for?
    • Being alive
    • Great family, great friends, great job that I enjoy, live in Canada
    • Small things: tea, coffee, tasty tap water (Toronto!), Toronto
      • Don Valley Parkway
    • Good books, that I can read them
  • What do you value the most in a friendship and relationship?
    • Ease and fluidity of communication
    • Good humour
    • Trust
  • How would you go about debugging intermittent hangs in Firefox after its been on its own for a while? In the morning it is hanging, but was working when you left at night… and this happens not every day but some
    • The hang itself, at the point where you come back, may have enough information to be actionable. The thing to do is try to turn the hang into actionable data.
      • macOS and Linux, we want to crash intentionally
        • Get the Process ID of the parent process: ps aux | grep firefox
        • Crash using SIGABRT: kill -SIGABRT <process ID>, kill -SIGABRT 1327
      • Windows, crashintentionally.exe
        • https://releases.mozilla.org/pub/utilities/crashfirefox-intentionally/
        • Source: https://github.com/bsmedberg/crashfirefox-intentionally
      • https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/performance/reportingaperformance_problem.html
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• How mconley uses Mercurial
• 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
• Codetribute - Help contribute to Firefox, good mentored bugs for You.
  • First, Create a Mozilla Bugzilla account.