Made some progress on async Places containers. After last week, decided to think small and focus on moving sorting of folder node children to SQL. Spun bug 530236, with a WIP patch, from bug 499985 to track this work.
Biggest snag so far is figuring out how to either do nsNavHistoryContainerResultNode::FillStats’s work inside the [...]
My patch for bug 506814 landed. Thanks, Josh and Dao.
Created a new project, async Places containers, which is the topic of the remainder of this post.
Spent time thinking about a Storage “live view” interface, mocked it up, talked to sdwilsh about it. The idea was a live view, where modifications to the view’s [...]
Jetpack 0.6 is out, sporting a new menu API and Twitter library.
Jetpack is a platform for writing Firefox add-ons the same way you write for the Web: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Webby libraries like jQuery, no browser restarts to see your changes. But that’s shortchanging it. It’s also add-ons with a security model; [...]
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Started looking again at making Places query APIs async, bug 490714. First need to tackle bug 499985, sorting of query results should be done entirely in SQL.
“Helped” bz with test failures in blocker bug 526178, binding loading order changed in 3.6b1 compared to previous version of firefox.
Awaiting Josh’s review on bug 506814, get rid [...]
