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Backtrack meets Gecko Profiler
Backtrack is about to be a new performance tool, focused on revealing and solving scheduling and delay problems. Those are big offenders of performance, very hard to track, and hidden from...
View ArticleIllusion of atomic reference counting
Most people believe that having an atomic reference counter makes them safe to use RefPtr on multiple threads without any more synchronization. Opposite may be truth, though! Imagine a simple code,...
View ArticleMoz logging (former NSPR logging) file now has a size limit option
There are lot of cases of mainly networking issues rare enough to reproduce making users have their Firefox run for long hours to hit the problem. Logging is great in bringing the information to us...
View ArticleIntel Rapid Storage Technology disappears on Windows 10 and more
This started with the INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE doom I wrote about before. But here I want to treat the story after that.When I solved the above mentioned problem, I ended up with 14.6 version of the...
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Automatically attaching child and test-spawned Firefox processes in Visual...
Did you ever dream of debugging Firefox in Visual Studio with all its child processes attached automatically? And also when being started externally from a test suit like mochitest or browsertest?...
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Mozilla Log Analyzer added basic network diagnostics
Few weeks ago I’ve published Mozilla Log Analyzer (logan). It is a very helpful tool itself when diagnosing our logs, but looking at the log lines doesn’t give answers about what’s wrong or right...
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Firefox 57 delays requests to tracking domains
Firefox Quantum – version 57 – introduced number of changes to the network requests scheduler. One of them is using data of the Tracking Protection database to delay load of scripts from tracking...
View ArticleFixing adb device unauthorized in VirtualBox hosted linux
Getting either no devices listed or just unauthorized from adb devices when running adb in a virtual machine? My setup is VirtualBox running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS hosted in Windows 10 machine. Connecting...
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Visual Studio Code auto-complete displays MDN reference for CSS and HTML tags
Mozilla Developer Network (now MDN Web Docs) is great, probably the best Web development reference site from them all. And therefor even Microsoft defaults to us now in Visual Studio Code. Snippet...
View ArticleFirefox enables link rel=”preload” support
We enabled the link preload web feature support in Firefox 78, at this time only at Nightly channel and Firefox Early Beta and not Firefox Release because of pending deeper product integrity checking...
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