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That chart suggests massive improvements since the beginning of this year. Can anyone explain how this was achieved? What precisely has changed?

by p-e-w 3y ago

akyuu 3y ago
In the Firefox Nightly blog, there is some discussion of the performance improvements they've delivered in each release: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org For example: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/04/14/dropping-the-banner-hammer-and-more-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-134/ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/04/14/dropping-the-ban... > The two big jumps are from these two fixes. Great job, Performance Team! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444491 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444491 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1815069 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1815069
- efreak 3y ago
  > Starting from Firefox 112, users can now search for text inside the about:addons page (through the usual associated keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Ctrl-F and ‘/’) – Bug 1499500 _Finally_. It's only been _years_ that I haven't been able to search through my (admittedly far too big) list of disabled add-ons to find the one I want and turn it on. Now we just need the collection limit on Firefox nightly removed. It only fetches the first page of 50 addons in a collection. I add things to my collection any time it seems useful, and keeping a collection in sync with what's being used across _seven_ browsers on two devices is difficult (I use multiple browsers on Android the way I use multiple browser windows on desktop; extensions usually only get installed in the workspace I actually need them for, so each install has a slightly different set of extensions and slightly different settings)
mstange 3y ago
You can expect some blog posts from us on this topic at the end of the year / early next year. In short: Organizational focus on a performance target, significant investment, and some great new tooling. We're also reaping the benefits of foundational work that happened over the last few years.
zamadatix 3y ago
You can click the dots and get a link to what was changed in that commit. e.g. in the sudden bump after April there is a 4 part cache related patch linking to the issue tracking ID which describes (in human terms) additional jit caching mechanisms.

That chart suggests massive improvements since the beginning of this year. Can anyone explain how this was achieved? What precisely has changed?

by p-e-w 3y ago

That chart suggests massive improvements since the beginning of this year. Can anyone explain how this was achieved? What precisely has changed?

akyuu 3y ago

In the Firefox Nightly blog, there is some discussion of the performance improvements they've delivered in each release: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org For example: https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/04/14/dropping-the-banner-hammer-and-more-these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-134/ https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2023/04/14/dropping-the-ban... > The two big jumps are from these two fixes. Great job, Performance Team! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444491 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1444491 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1815069 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1815069

efreak 3y ago
> Starting from Firefox 112, users can now search for text inside the about:addons page (through the usual associated keyboard shortcuts, e.g. Ctrl-F and ‘/’) – Bug 1499500 _Finally_. It's only been _years_ that I haven't been able to search through my (admittedly far too big) list of disabled add-ons to find the one I want and turn it on. Now we just need the collection limit on Firefox nightly removed. It only fetches the first page of 50 addons in a collection. I add things to my collection any time it seems useful, and keeping a collection in sync with what's being used across _seven_ browsers on two devices is difficult (I use multiple browsers on Android the way I use multiple browser windows on desktop; extensions usually only get installed in the workspace I actually need them for, so each install has a slightly different set of extensions and slightly different settings)

mstange 3y ago

You can expect some blog posts from us on this topic at the end of the year / early next year. In short: Organizational focus on a performance target, significant investment, and some great new tooling. We're also reaping the benefits of foundational work that happened over the last few years.

zamadatix 3y ago

You can click the dots and get a link to what was changed in that commit. e.g. in the sudden bump after April there is a 4 part cache related patch linking to the issue tracking ID which describes (in human terms) additional jit caching mechanisms.