How you can help mozilla-inbound sheriffs when pushing

Since everyone loves not having to look at tbpl, I'd like to point out some basic hints to make mozilla-inbound sheriffs happier.  For any questions, or if you need help with the trees, ask to a sheriff in #developers IRC channel.

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MaK | Venerdì 23 Marzo 2012 at 08:11 am | | Mozilla-EN | Cinque commenti

Add-ons devs heads up: we are killing old bookmarks GUIDS.

If you don't manage an add-on that is using Places bookmarks GUIDs, you can stop reading here.

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MaK | Giovedì 16 Febbraio 2012 at 10:28 am | | Mozilla-EN | Nessun commento

About making singleton XPCOM js services

Currently defining a new XPCOM component in javascript has no implications regarding createInstance. This means any code or add-on may instance your component multiple times, even if you intended to make it service-like.

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MaK | Lunedì 13 Febbraio 2012 at 6:49 pm | | Mozilla-EN | Tre commenti
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Even easier backouts from the trees

Some time ago I posted a simple shell script to automate trivial backouts, using the method suggested by Ehsan Akhgari and improved by Daniel Holbert.

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MaK | Martedì 22 Novembre 2011 at 4:14 pm | | Mozilla-EN | Quattro commenti

Update on periodic Firefox hangs

Currently released Firefox 8 beta includes fixes for the periodic hangs some users suffered, so you can now board the beta channel and leave your feedback on the issue, if you wish.

MaK | Sabato 22 Ottobre 2011 at 05:25 am | | Mozilla-EN | Sei commenti
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Is your Firefox freezing at regular intervals?

We've identified a bug that may cause, under certain circumstances, periodic freezes of the Firefox UI, in terms of a short freeze every about 9 minutes. This only affects a small amount of users, so, if you don't notice this behavior, you can stop reading.

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MaK | Venerdì 30 Settembre 2011 at 09:27 am | | Mozilla-EN | 73 commenti

Changes to Places memory consumption, expiration and performances

As part of the Memshrink effort, we reduced the SQLite page cache used by Places.  This is not a leak, the page cache is actively used by SQLite to improve performances by reducing disk I/O. Originally Places was allowed to use a large cache (maximum 6% of physical memory, per connection), to ensure responsiveness of the awesome bar.

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MaK | Venerdì 02 Settembre 2011 at 08:45 am | | Mozilla-EN | Quattro commenti

Those boring 7 things...

Since I have been tagged at least by Tim Taubert and Dietrich Ayala, I feel like I can't escape anymore.

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MaK | Lunedì 08 Agosto 2011 at 05:07 am | | Mozilla-EN | Nessun commento