Firefox/Projects/StartupPerformance

Improve startup time of Firefox and Fennec on all operating systems and platforms.

Status

• IN FLIGHT
• Project lead: Dietrich Ayala
• Project members: Ryan Flint, Drew Willcoxon, David Dahl, Vlad Vukićević, Taras Glek, Joel Reymont, Ben Hsieh, Rob Strong, Zack Weinberg
• Weekly status updates
• Tracking bug
• Results
  • Current numbers available in the Performance Snapshot
  • Graphs: Windows XP | Windows Vista | Mac Leopard | Linux

Goals

• Improve warm and cold startup time
• Improve startup time for all tier 1 platforms

Timeline/Milestones

TBD for Q2.

Testing

QA Contact: Raymond Etornam

Testplan:

Methods and automated coverage

• How to measure startup time
• Startup performance test matrix