Tag Archives: mozilla

Sign in to Telemetry with Persona

Posted on May 16, 2012 by

I’m pleased to report some user visible progress from the performance and metrics work week. Sign in to the Telemetry dashboard now uses Persona (aka, BrowserID). No special permission is required. The Telemetry dashboard is open to all. Don’t have … Continue reading →

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Telemetry Data Issues – Status and Summary

Posted on April 12, 2012 by

Telemetry is a data collection framework that collects real world data from Firefox. Recently Telemetry experienced some issues resulting in incomplete data being reported on the Telemetry Dashboard and Telemetry Evolution. Before I get into the details about the data … Continue reading →

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Snappy, March 29th

Posted on March 29, 2012 by

It was a quiet week for Snappy as many of our regulars were off at Layout/DOM/Gfx work week or otherwise engaged. However, progress was still made. Vlad released a new version of about:telemetry that shows full slow SQL data on … Continue reading →

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Snappy, March 22nd

Posted on March 22, 2012 by

Taras is off for a couple of weeks as he is a proud new daddy. (Congrats Taras!) In his absence, I’m bringing you this week’s Snappy update. Last week Taras started his post with a summary of the work that … Continue reading →

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Bugzilla wikimo integration reenabled

Posted on March 2, 2012 by

As I reported yesterday, the Bugzilla wikimo extension had to be temporarily disabled as it was affecting the reliability and availability of Bugzilla and wikimo. While the extension has query caching built in, we discovered that caching was disabled on … Continue reading →

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Bugzilla wikimo integration temporarily disabled

Posted on March 1, 2012 by

It seems that the pent up demand for the Bugzilla wikimo integration (aka mediawiki-bugzilla) was MUCH greater than we anticipated. In less than a week, use of this extension has grown to the point where it is affecting the reliability … Continue reading →

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Embed Bugzilla data in wikimo pages

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

[Update] I had previously linked to Christian Legnitto’s personal github repo. The correct canonical github repo is https://github.com/mozilla/mediawiki-bugzilla. I’m excited, nay thrilled, to announce that you can now embed Bugzilla data in wiki pages on wiki.mozilla.org via the mediawiki-bugzilla extension. … Continue reading →

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Firefox Engineering Program Management 4Q 2011 Summary

Posted on February 6, 2012 by

The Firefox engineering program management team formed at the end of 3Q 2011. The team is currently comprised of Sheila Mooney (smooney – our fearless leader), Martin Best (mbest), Erin Lancaster (elancaster), and me (Lawrence Mandel – lmandel). Our first … Continue reading →

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Improving the Firefox update experience

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

Over the past few months we’ve been working on a number of improvements to the Firefox update experience. These improvements use new approaches to update that allow Firefox to update silently – without any interruption to your regular use of … Continue reading →

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Update on Multi-process Firefox (Electrolysis) Development

Posted on November 15, 2011 by

On Nov. 4, 2011, we held a public call to evaluate options for improving Firefox responsiveness including the multi-process Firefox initiative (code name Electrolysis, also known as e10s). The outcome of this discussion was a decision to put the Electrolysis … Continue reading →

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