On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:10 PM, Gavin Sharp <ga...@gavinsharp.com> wrote: > > Bug 870100 enabled use of the background thumbnail service in Firefox > desktop, which uses a <browser remote=true> to do thumbnailing of pages in > the background. > > That means that desktop Firefox now makes use of E10S content processes. > They have a short life time (one page load) and are generally triggered by > opening about:newtab when thumbnails are missing or out of date (>2 days > old).
This change triggered https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=903949, for which I just landed a fix. Chalk it up as another unexpected side-effect of the introduction of e10s. Thanks to Hugh Nougher for noticing some hangs in Nightly and profiling them. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
