About:Snappy

[GSam]

Apart from OMTC, SuperSnappy, i think the worst Jank that i have experience day to day even with an SSD drive is Flash. The Flash player hangs, slows down the browser. Does anyone know if this is something being worked on from Adobe / Mozilla ?

What do you regularly use Flash for these days? I don't even need to use Flash once a week probably.

[Ver Greeneyes]

I can't speak for iwod, but for me: Youtube (HTML5 beta has never worked particularly well for me, could try it again I guess) and livestreams on twitch.tv. If you don't watch a lot of videos or play Flash-based games then you probably won't run into Flash that much, but those applications are still pretty important on the web.

[MINIDOU]

especially twitch where you can sometimes want to have several stream running at the same time, in which case firefox suck, while chrome has no problem (can't say for the others)

[iwod]

Opening Multiple youtube tab, and some similar case with the above mentioned already.

[iwod]

Time to do a little bump.

Any News on ...

OMTC
SuperSnappy
Generational GC
New Graphics Backend

[Omega X]

Very little. Graphics team is working on Off Main Thread stuff for B2G. JS team is working on dependencies for GGC and other related JS work. SuperSnappy dev is supposed to be out until mid November.

[MrX1980]

Extremely slow deleting from history (seems some O(n^2) algorithm is there)

deleting ~13,000 history entries > 10 minutes

[iwod]

Extremely slow deleting from history (seems some O(n^2) algorithm is there)

deleting ~13,000 history entries > 10 minutes

I really wanted to test, but is there anyway to backup my history? Deleting history would ( i think ) make my awesomebar results different.

[JayhawksRock]

I really wanted to test, but is there anyway to backup my history? Deleting history would ( i think ) make my awesomebar results different.

backup a copy of places.sqlite http://kb.mozillazine.org/Places.sqlite

Extremely slow deleting from history (seems some O(n^2) algorithm is there)

deleting ~13,000 history entries > 10 minutes

Deleting that much history in a database that includes a bunch of other data is going to take some time. why anyone needs that much history I'll never know But if you want to just delete places.sqlite it will take 1 second... but it will take these items with it
moz_anno_attributes - Annotation Attributes
moz_annos - Annotations
moz_bookmarks - Bookmarks
moz_bookmarks_roots - Bookmark roots i.e. places, menu, toolbar, tags, unfiled
moz_favicons - Favourite icons - including URL of icon
moz_historyvisits - A history of the number of times a site has been visited
moz_inputhistory - A history of URLS typed by the user
moz_items_annos - Item annotations
moz_keywords - Keywords
moz_places - Places/Sites visited - referenced by moz_historyvisits

[mak77]

it's not the deletion that takes time, it's notifying each page removal to the consumers (UI and Add-ons).

[iwod]

News on OMTC

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/11/progr ... ighlights/

[Omega X]

Not really news, more of a recap.

[Grantius]

Not really news, more of a recap.

Agree'd.

It does seem very quiet on the Firefox front, unless its B2G or android.

[Elbart]

why anyone needs that much history I'll never know

Because it's possible. Wasn't that the whole point of switching to SQLite-databases back with Fx3 (or so)?

[Drumbrake]

why anyone needs that much history I'll never know

Because it's possible. Wasn't that the whole point of switching to SQLite-databases back with Fx3 (or so)?

Also because someone may still use (despite of how uncanny it may seem) a web browser for something more important/interesting than accessing facebook,so keeping a lot of history may be relevant to them.Even if you can obviously bookmark sites,you may want to retrieve something that you may have not saved at first.