Yes, it is currently disabled by safe mode. There is currently a checkbox in prefs to toggle it, in Nightly builds. When it rides the trains, we'll have to re-evaluate that tradeoff at various steps based on the quality level and testing goals. In the long term it does not make sense to maintain that as a user-exposed option.
Gavin On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 1:28 PM, Nicholas Nethercote <n.netherc...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Dave Townsend <dtowns...@mozilla.com> wrote: >> We started that with prompting users to opt-in to e10s >> around a month ago and since then around 25% of Nightly users have been >> running with e10s enabled. As we hoped this saw a surge in the number of >> bugs filed and helped us understand the remaining issues more. Many many >> bugs have been fixed since then and as of Tuesday nothing remaining looked >> bad enough to block us turning this on more globally. > > 25% is pretty high! Knowing that, the decision to turn it on by > default does not seem unreasonable. > > Thinking ahead: e10s is a big enough change that I suspect we'll see > high levels of instability when it gets uplifted to Aurora and > (especially) Beta. Not sure how to avoid that... but will there be an > easy way to disable it? I think there should be a pref in the user > prefs (i.e. not just about:config) because it sounds like a > non-trivial fraction of users will have add-ons broken by it. And does > safe mode disable it? > > Nick > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
