This was added in bug 1255843 [1]. I don't feel to strongly about keeping it around, I believe mconley and mrbkap came up with the idea of adding it. It's *much* more lightweight than about:memory and provides automatic updates which is nice for monitoring without external tools.
What performance issues are you seeing? RSS and USS should be relatively lightweight and the polling frequency isn't very high. -e [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1255843 On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:12 AM, Florian Quèze <flor...@queze.net> wrote: > Context: we are currently redesigning about:performance to make it > more useful for users. > > This section of the current about:performance page provides > information that isn't actionable for users, and collecting this > information causes performance issues, so I think it's time to remove > it. > > I filed https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474990 for the > removal. > > If someone uses this information and strongly thinks we should keep it > (eg. by moving it to about:memory), now is the time to speak up. > > Thanks, > Florian > > -- > Florian Quèze > _______________________________________________ > 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
