dolphinling's weblog » Mozilla http://blog.dolphinling.net ...whatever goes through my head... Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:27:52 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Automatic updates http://blog.dolphinling.net/2007/10/automatic-updates/ http://blog.dolphinling.net/2007/10/automatic-updates/#comments Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:16:34 +0000 dolphinling http://blog.dolphinling.net/2007/10/automatic-updates/ This has got to be one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen about Mozilla as a platform.

Software Update - Sunbird

]]> http://blog.dolphinling.net/2007/10/automatic-updates/feed/ 0 Linux TP down 10%! http://blog.dolphinling.net/2007/05/linux-tp-down-10/ http://blog.dolphinling.net/2007/05/linux-tp-down-10/#comments Thu, 10 May 2007 02:04:00 +0000 dolphinling http://blog.dolphinling.net/2007/05/linux-tp-down-10/ Thank you, bug 375760:

And a big thank you to roc for writing that patch, and vlad for reviewing it too!

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(Proof dbaron is awesome: I didn’t even notice for 6 days.)

]]> http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/12/reflow-branch/feed/ 0 Back to the 1.8 branch, part 2? http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/back-to-the-18-branch-part-2/ http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/back-to-the-18-branch-part-2/#comments Wed, 28 Jun 2006 11:01:34 +0000 dolphinling http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/back-to-the-18-branch-part-2/ I’m considering switching back to the 1.8 branch again. There’s a giant memory leak on trunk that it seems only I can see (yes, I’ve tried safe mode) that I’m having trouble narrowing down. Cairo is still incredibly slow on Linux. The tab scrolling thing that just landed is incredibly stupid, in my at least partly-qualified opinion, and interrupts my workflow a lot.

And to add to all that, ever since going to a music festival for 4 days and not using a computer at all, I’ve stopped really wanting to spend so much time on it in the first place, and I just want it to do what I want.

So yeah, I might switch back, to take some of the hassle away. That would also mean I’d file fewer bug reports…

]]> http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/back-to-the-18-branch-part-2/feed/ 3 Extension reqest: animate one image http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/extension-reqest-animate-one-image/ http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/extension-reqest-animate-one-image/#comments Tue, 20 Jun 2006 03:14:33 +0000 dolphinling http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/extension-reqest-animate-one-image/ I browse the web with image.animation_mode = once, because I, you know, value my sanity. However, there is the occasional image that I do want to see animate. Does anyone know of an extension that lets me temporarily animate one particular image? If not, I think a context menu item (only visible on animated images, of course) would be a good solution for anyone that feels like making one.

]]> http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/extension-reqest-animate-one-image/feed/ 1 Back to the 1.8 branch. http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/back-to-the-18-branch/ http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/back-to-the-18-branch/#comments Thu, 08 Jun 2006 09:16:43 +0000 dolphinling http://blog.dolphinling.net/2006/06/back-to-the-18-branch/ I’m no longer running firefox trunk nightlies, having moved back to the 1.8 branch. It was nice having the new features, and I wish I could keep testing them, but the performance was just too bad. I was able to stand it for a long while, but then I had to test something on 1.8, and after that I just couldn’t go back. It’s amazing how a fast browser doesn’t seem all that much faster, but a slow one feels awful.

The perf bugs (mostly on Linux, from what I gather) have been sitting there untouched for a while, as people focused on the 1.8 branch, and went to XTech, and had vacations, and the like. Vlad says there will be work on them soon, though, within “the next few weeks” (on the 30th in mozilla.dev.tech.gfx). And indeed, one small fix went in yesterday, though not enough to make me switch back.

Hopefully “next few weeks” from the 30th turns out to mean starting at the end of this week and picking up next, so I don’t have to stay away too long.

Update: So it seems that that in fact, it wasn’t just psychological, there was a huge regression that happened on trunk while I was using branch. I’ve moved back to about half and half for now, because testing trunk is important and I know there aren’t enough people that do it, but I hope the cairo bugs get fixed soon.

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  • Ctrl-R refreshes
  • F5 refreshes
  • Ctrl-Shift-R clears the entire cache and refreshes
  • Ctrl-F5 clears only the cache of that page (and images, etc. on it) and refreshes.

Hope someone finds this useful.

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