The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 262: Sep 15th, 2021

Links

• Watch this episode on Air Mozilla
• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• Bug 1707582 - Bug 1707582 - Intermittent /modules/test/browser/browser_UsageTelemetry_interaction.js

  Expected to see the correct value for bookmark-item in bookmarks_bar. - “undefined” == 1 - JS frame :: /browser/modules/test/browser/browser_UsageTelemetry_interaction.js :: assert

• 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 -

• The orange color in Treeherder is intermittent test failure
• Shippable builds has gone through PGO - Profile Guided Optimization - which is a step that binaries go through before being shipped to users
• Plug for Replay - Your time travel debugger for JavaScript
• Let’s look at a memory report
• Let’s bump some probe expiries
  • And here
• Question time!
  • What are your thoughts on Proton redesign?
    • I like it!
  • When I was tinkering with Firefox I found a way to zoom text only: Menu Bar -> View -> Zoom -> Zoom text only. I find it extremely useful. Is there a reason why this could not be additionally accessed using “Zoom controls” or activated with some shortcut? + What is the process for deciding which items to select in menu bars/toolboxes?
  • Have you ever read a book on e-ink paper?
    • Yes
    • I have a Kobo
    • Margaret Atwood’s Oryx and Crake
  • Some companies/teams once in a while have a time period when they focus solely on fixing bugs - what do you think about this approach? have you ever discussed this with your colleagues?
    • Yes, I like this approach. We do this approach! It’s a great way to fix papercuts and also to pay down technical debt.
• Rate this episode

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• How mconley uses Mercurial
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• Codetribute - Help contribute to Firefox, good mentored bugs for You.
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