The Joy of Coding: Episode Guide

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Episode 329: Jun 21st, 2023

Links

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• Joplin Agenda

Topics

• Volume control in Picture-in-Picture! That’s in Nightly right now, might roll out to users in Firefox 116.
• Firefox release info - What train is it now
  • If you want to hear more about our release model and how “the trains” work, check out Episode 270, around 44m20s in
• WindowsJumpLists! Let’s keep going!
  • A lot of the complexity that we’re dealing with architecturally is because we’re trying to maintain the old backend while adding the new capability with a new backend, but the two backends share some infrastructure.
  • What I want to do is determine if we can do a better job of separating out the jumplist backend by reading a pref at runtime and choosing the right implementation.
• TODO
  • Rename nsIJumpListBuilder to nsILegacyJumpListBuilder
  • Add createLegacyJumpListBuilder to nsIWinTaskBar to use the old mechanism
  • Update WindowsJumpList to use the legacy interface
  • Create a new nsIJumpListBuilder
  • Document NativeJumpListBackend
  • Populate nsIJumpListBuilder using the code we developed in the previous iteration
  • Have createJumpListBuilder in nsIWinTaskBar use that
  • Figure out why the JumpListBuilder isn’t returning the URLs of the previous
  • It’s working! It’s just that you have to remember to actually remove the item for it to show up in the list.
  • Update WindowsJumpLists to choose the right builder based on the pref and treat them correctly based on that pref.
  • Write a gtest for the JumpListBuilder
  • Write a front-end test that registers a fake nsIWinTaskbar or otherwise produces a fake nsIJumpListBuilder to make sure it gets passed the right things.
  • Make a note to migrate the new jump list builder off of the dedicated lazy thread and use the IO thread pool instead.
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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