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Firefox Performance Update #9
Hello, Internet! Here we are with yet another Firefox Performance Update for your consumption. Hold onto your hats – we’re going in! But first a word from our sponsor: ScriptPreloader! A lot of the...
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Firefox Performance Update #10
Hey folks – another Performance Update coming at you! It’s been a few weeks since I posted one of these, mostly due to travel, holidays and the Mozilla SF All-Hands. However, we certainly haven’t been...
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Firefox Performance Update #11
Wow, it’s been a while1 since I posted one of these. We haven’t been resting on our laurels though – a bunch of work has been going on, and I want to highlight some of the big pieces that I’ve seen go...
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Well, here I am again – apologizing about a late update. Lots of stuff has been going on performance-wise in the Firefox code-base, and I’ll just be covering a small section of it here. You might also...
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Firefox Front-End Performance Update #13
It’s been just a little over two weeks since my last update, so let’s see where we are! A number of our projects are centered around trying to improve start-up time. Start-up can mean a lot of things,...
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Firefox Front-End Performance Update #14
We’re only a few weeks away from Firefox 67 merging from the Nightly channel to Beta, and since my last update, a number of things have landed. It’s the end of a long week for me, so I apologize for...
View ArticleFirefox Front-End Performance Update #15
Firefox 66 has been released, Firefox 67 is out on the beta channel, and Firefox 68 is cooking for the folks on the Nightly channel! These trains don’t stop! With that, let’s take a quick peek at what...
View ArticleFirefox Front-End Performance Update #16
With Firefox 67 only a few short weeks away, I thought it might be interesting to take a step back and talk about some of the work that the Firefox Front-end Performance team is shipping to users in...
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Firefox Front-End Performance Update #17
Hello, folks. I wanted to give a quick update on what the Firefox Front-end Performance team is up to, so let’s get into it. The name of the game continues to be start-up performance. We made some...
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A few words on main thread disk access for general audiences
I’m writing this in lieu of a traditional Firefox Front-end Performance Update, as I think this will be more useful in the long run than just a snapshot of what my team is doing. I want to talk about...
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Improving Firefox Startup Time With The about:home Startup Cache
Don’t bury the lede We’re working on a thing to make Firefox start faster! It appears to work! Here’s a video showing off a before (left) and after (right): Improving Firefox Startup Time With The...
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