Nightly Build Crashing by Bangtedin firefox
[–]mbrubeck 3 points4 points5 points 5 days ago
By the way, it's not just you. Crash stats for the nightly channel really spiked in the last couple of days.
It looks like the main culprit is a regression caused by some of the work on incremental garbage collection, and a fix is being tested.
Mozilla Opens Doors on New $3 Million Data Center | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com by r_schestowitzin firefox
[–]mbrubeck 1 point2 points3 points 5 days ago*
At Tinderboxpushlog you can see an overview of all the passing and failing tests from the many many test suites that are run automatically every time someone commits a change to the Firefox source code. The minis run the tests on all three Mac platforms and I think maybe some of the others as well. There is also the Try Server where developers can run the test automation on experimental or work-in-progress patches.
For documentation about the automated test suites, see Buildbot and Mozilla Automated Testing.
The test automation and many other operations on the minis are handled remotely. If I understand correctly, it's just certain operations like powering them up or down, or re-imaging them, that can require some on-site access.
[–]mbrubeck 3 points4 points5 points 5 days ago*
If you go to about:crashes and click on one of the crash report IDs, you can look in the "Bugzilla" section of the crash-stats page to see if it's already a known bug. If not, please file a bug so it can be investigated! And if you paste the crash ID here, I or someone else might be able to provide more info.
Slow garbage collection times on Firefox? (x-post from r/linux) by DeadMonkey321in firefox
[–]mbrubeck 2 points3 points4 points 5 days ago*
There are a few possible causes of long GC/CC times; some are fixed in recent Aurora or Nightly builds. You can also try running in safe mode to figure out whether the problem is caused or exacerbated by an add-on.
Recent nightly builds have a new feature called Incremental Garbage Collection, which greatly reduces GC pauses. You can turn it on by enabling "javascript.options.mem.gc_incremental" in about:config.
Incremental GC should be enabled by default in Nightly soon: http://bugzil.la/735099
Help r/ff. I'm a noob and need help making an Add-On. by isevenxin firefox
[–]mbrubeck 8 points9 points10 points 6 days ago*
I would do this using the Add-on Builder, which lets you build and publish your add-on by typing it into a web page, and you can test it out while you work without even restarting Firefox. Start by reading the tutorial.
Here's an example add-on to inject some JavaScript into a web page with just four lines of code. There's are more examples and docs on the Add-on SDK site.
You could also make it a greasemonkey script which has the advantage that it will also run in Chrome and some other browsers.
Connect with Web Intents (blog.chromium.org)
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Update on Firefox 13′s Home and New Tab Redesign (blog.mozilla.org)
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Hands-on with the new tab synchronization feature in Chrome 19 (arstechnica.com)
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New Firefox Beta for Android with native UI and Flash support by mbrubeckin Android
[–]mbrubeck[S] 0 points1 point2 points 10 days ago
Here's an add-on to switch user agent. We plan to add this to the browser itself in a future version.
We've started work on Find In Page but it wasn't ready for this initial release: https://bugzil.la/695172 -- note that this is a feature that is already in the previous version of Firefox for Android; we just haven't yet finished re-implementing everything after rewriting the UI for better performance.
Mozilla isn't working on Flash development, but it's certainly possible that Google will. I have no way of knowing Google's future plans, but I know in the past Adobe has licensed Flash Player source code to companies to develop versions for their own platforms.
[–]mbrubeck[S] 1 point2 points3 points 10 days ago
The new UI with Flash support is not ready yet for tablets, so tablet users get the old version for now. Sorry! We'll be working soon on the tablet version of the new UI.
You can test Flash on a tablet by downloading an Aurora build but note that the browser UI won't look quite right yet.
There are direct links here. I recommend the "Aurora" channel because it will keep itself updated.
[–]mbrubeck[S] 2 points3 points4 points 10 days ago
Yes, please! You can report a bug at Bugzilla.
Weird... it looks like the PNG file for that button's background is invalid; both Firefox and Chrome have trouble rendering it:
http://i.reddit.com/compact/border-button.png
If you want to be notified when the bug is worked on or fixed, you can create a Bugzilla account and then vote for the bug (using the "vote" link after you are logged in).
Thanks, this is great feedback. Just a few bits of additional info...
3) The next iteration of the tab menu will fix this problem.
5) We're aware of a number of rendering issues and actively working on them.
9) There's an add-on for switching the user agent. We plan to build this into the browser at some point; just need to make it a bit more useful.
11) If you would be willing to file a bug about this it would be a great help.
As you use Firefox, it will learn which pages you visit most and display them at the top of the "all pages" list. And if you start typing in the address field above the list, it will display matching pages from your bookmarks and history as you type (just like the "awesome bar" in desktop Firefox).
The bug with reddit comments is http://bugzil.la/748446
Full Screen is a simple add-on I wrote with a few lines of JavaScript, not a built-in browser feature. I'll try to improve the add-on it to make it more usable.
[–]mbrubeck[S] 6 points7 points8 points 10 days ago
See this article for a list:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-firefox-android-use-permissions-it-requests#os=android&browser=m14
[–]mbrubeck[S] 2 points3 points4 points 10 days ago*
No, no H.264 support for HTML <video> elements yet. (Though of course sites that use Flash to play H.264 videos will work now.)
[–]mbrubeck[S] 4 points5 points6 points 10 days ago*
Since Flash is already available for all existing Android devices, and it's already supported in Firefox, I'm not sure what you mean. How do we plan to support it? Well, we do support it.
Even though Adobe is no longer devoting engineering resources to mobile, partners like Google are still working to ship Flash on their platforms. Some future Android devices might not have Flash available, in which case Firefox (and all other browsers) will not be able to use Flash on those devices.
So I guess the answer is we plan to support Flash on devices with Flash, and we won't support Flash on devices without Flash.
As far as I know, no one is working on such a thing. At one point there was a Chrome extension that let you connect Chrome to your Firefox Sync account, but that code was never finished. It might also be possible to the reverse (a Firefox extension that syncs to your Google account).
I agree that it would be really nice to have a cross-browser protocol.
Yes, Firefox uses OpenGL for drawing and scrolling web pages, and it also has hardware acceleration enabled on ICS for Android UI views.
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Nightly Build Crashing by Bangtedin firefox
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