Mobile/e10s

Tasks

• Main E10s Meta bug:
  • https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=516521&hide_resolved=1

• not ben or doug
  • session history does not work (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516728, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516746)
  • iframe panning does not work. (punt until layers)
  • places do not work (places)
  • ssl cert dialogs (jason)
  • canvas issues (joedrew!!!)
    • callback happens just before paint (old tiles are shown and then repainted)
    • garbage when drawing only part of the tile
    • panning needs to be faster
  • leaking? performance seems to get worse over time, quickly. (bsmedberg)
    • we need to provide data here...
  • fast-scaling (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552142)
  • js alerts (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=516749, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548847)
  • geolocation notification and use (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552822)
  • downloads (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552825)
  • orientation (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552826)
  • login manager (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552827)
  • autocomplete (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552828)
  • system alerts (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552770)

• unowned tasks
  • Intermittent scrolling problem with autocomplete widget (?)

• ben
  • scroll syncing does not work (ben)
  • zooming to an element does not work (ben)
  • highlighting elements on mousedown (ben)
  • checkerboarding happens a lot (ben)
  • select boxes (ben)
  • url bar shifted up on new page (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552971)

• dougt
  • offline mode / autodialer doesn't work. (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552829)
  • about:fennec does not work (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552832)

How to build

• pull e10s repo
  • http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/electrolysis
• pull e10s patch queue and apply
  • pull mq patch directory http://hg.mozilla.org/users/dougt_mozilla.com/e10s-patches/ into .hg/patches
  • NOTE: if you push to the patches queue, please don't modify status
• pull e10s fennec repo
  • http://hg.mozilla.org/users/pavlov_mozilla.com/mobile-e10s/
• mozconfig:
  • http://people.mozilla.org/~dougt/random/e10s/mozconfig

How to run

Create an executable script fennectrolysis in your $PATH as

#!/bin/bash
objdir=[$OBJDIR]/mobile/
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$objdir/dist/bin/xulrunner:/usr/lib/debug/lib:/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib"
cd $objdir/dist/bin && exec "$@" ./xulrunner/xulrunner-bin application.ini

replacing [$OBJDIR] with your fennec objdir.