Reduce Firefox startup time on ARM
Investigate why firefox takes a long time to start up on ARM devices. This is almost certainly due to lots of IO. Upstream is aware this is an area of FF that needs attention and they are working on it (targetting desktop Win/Lin). Firefox 6 or Firefox 7 is planned to be part of Ubuntu 11.10. Both of these releases have startup time improvements on their upstream roadmap.
The use of slow SD in our case just makes the issue more visible.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- David Mandala
- Priority:
- High
- Drafter:
- Jani Monoses
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- None
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- Accepted for oneiric
- Implementation:
-
Deferred
- Milestone target:
-
ubuntu-11.10
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Upstream efforts documented here.
https:/
Update for 11.10 - this is mostly upstream work.
Work Items for oneiric-alpha-1:
[jani] Measure startup time using methods and tools provided upstream. Measurements done with the About Startup add-on: DONE
Work Items for oneiric-alpha-2:
[jani] LAVA test of firefox startup speed. Test running in Linaro's validation setup : DONE
[zkrynicki] Package LAVA test tool / ABREK: DONE
Work Items for oneiric-alpha-2:
[jani] Talk to upstream about lowest hanging fruits which are ARM performance related: POSTPONED
[jani] Investigate generic tools to measure startup speed of large (C++) linux apps: POSTPONED
Work Items
Dependency tree
* Blueprints in grey have been implemented.
