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App Update status
November 1st, 2009 by rstrong
This last week I’ve been focusing on Fennec / Firefox WinCE TS for app update and it looks like we can save around 130ms on startup on Firefox WinCE when using Taras’ patch from Bug 470116 to log the time spent during startup… I expect a similar savings for Mobile Fennec.
Note: we really need to come up with a better way to update each app’s installer manifests and remove-files so when we make changes to toolkit code that adds / removes files we don’t have to get reviews from each app to land the changes. I know bsmedberg would like to remove the requirement for the manifest by only having the files that will be included in each installer under dist/bin but I wonder if it is realistic to do so since each app would need to do this.
Progress:
- Finished up the patch Bug 311965 [Toolkit] – Refactor nsUpdateService.js to load less code at startup.
so it is now ready to land as soon as I get patches for all app’s approved for landing. As time permits I will be blogging about the lessons I’ve learned while trying to improve startup time for app update.
Future targets:
- Land Bug 311965 [Toolkit] – Refactor nsUpdateService.js to load less code at startup.
- Finish up several decent sized reviews in my queue I haven’t had time to do.
- Bug 525390 [Toolkit] – 3.5.4 Upgrade failure: “entry point js_SaveRegExpStatics could not be located” [Windows]
- I’m going to try to get Bug 407875 [Toolkit] – Unprivileged users are not notified of security updates fixed for Firefox 3.6.