Auto-tools/Projects/AddonStartupPerf

Goal

Get addon startup impact (and in the future, general performance and unittest failures) automated and reporting on a regular basis.

Pieces

addon fetcher - look at feed of popular addons and download latest versions to put in db

profile generator - create clean profile with given set of addons/preferences (will run firefox once with these addons)

Firefox runner - firefox runner than can receive results asynchronously (jsbridge or something like it that is not an extension - maybe dump with dump preference turned on)

worker - checks db for addons, for each addon: get profile with addon installed, add listener to runner, run firefox with profile, listener gets performance numbers, puts in db.

numbers feed - numbers from db for other people to feed on.

Questions

• Talos?
• cold startup
• jsbridge, results communicating