Firefox Frontend

find bar, loop, e10s and more

• Studying at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
• Flew here 5967 miles. That's 32 light milliseconds!
• My Bugzilla activity list has 842 rows.
• 20 bugs fixed in 14 weeks.
• Experimental "no-project" internship.
  • working closely with #fx-team (:tomasz)
  • working on many different parts of firefox
  • much more difficult to focus
  • difficult to create awesome presentation with single topic

Find bar

Tiny improvements

• Case-sensitivity now is tab specific.
• "Match case" button retriggers the search.

Performance improvements

• _getEditableNode more efficient
• Highlighting a huge amount of matches does not hang the browser

Demo

DIY

Before

• Open a huge website like HTML5 doc.
• Open findbar, check "highlight all".
• Type "a".
• Wait until browser unfreezes.

After

• Open a huge website like HTML5 doc.
• Open findbar, check "highlight all".
• Type "a".
• Happily cancel search.

about:newtab

Favicon fallback

Work week investigations

• about:newtab search engine logo sometimes blinks
• Get rid of moz-page-thumb protocol
• Use CSS to resize the grid

Style improvements

Footer

Whitespace in conversation window

Incoming call icon

E10s

UITour

Privacy

• ContentPrefService should record the time a permission was added/modified, and offer a way to reset those changed after a specified date
• content-prefs.sqlite is corrupted(and site specific zoom level is lost)when downgrade from Nightly35.0a1 to Aurora34.0a2 and earlier
• Create a pref to control Polaris

Build system

mach test whatever (fixed)

mach watch

Thanks!

Questions?