Electrolysis/Todo

Work that is in progress:

• Developer tools (bug 937172)
• Keyboard events that are handled by both content and chrome (bug 862519)
• IME (bug 926798)
• Password manager (bug 949617)
• Alerts, prompts (bug 899648)
• Native Key bindings on OS X / Linux (bug 977904)

Not yet started:

• Get software compositor in a shippable state
  • Get Talos results on par with basic layers on Linux
  • Enable on all platforms as a backup
• Better plugin support
  • Launch plugins from the parent process and share a single plugin process across content processes (bug 874016)
  • Support windowed mode plugins (bug 923746)
• Popup blocker notifications and other doorhangers (bug 933462)
• Printing (bug 927188)
• Save page as (bug 903022)
• Drag and drop (bug 936092)
• Accessibility (bug 646596)
• WebRTC UI (bug 973001)
• Click-to-play (bug 899347)
• Forward/back navigation between in-process and remote content
• Add-on installation (bug 952201)
• Focusing is sometimes broken
• Finish cross-process object wrappers
  • Bidirectional CPOWs
  • Better XPConnect integration

• Settle on a process model
  • Start with one content process for all tabs
  • Measure memory usage with multiple content processes
  • Choose the right number of content processes to balance security and memory usage
  • Consider using separate content processes for iframes
  • about:processes page

• Testing
  • We expect that most tests should work without too much difficulty.
  • mochitests-browser-chrome will require a lot of reworking. CPOWs may be useful here.

• Smaller issues
  • Auto-focus on OS X
  • AeroPeek
  • Network prioritizer
  • Aero Glass with basic compositor
  • Jetpack integration