FirefoxStartup
Launchpad Entry: other-o-arm-firefox-startup
Created: 2011-04-22
Contributors: Oliver Grawert, Micah Gersten
Packages affected:
Summary
Investigate why firefox takes a long time to start up on ARM devices. Optimise slow routines to address this.
Release Note
Firefox has been optimised to launch significantly faster on ARM devices in Ubuntu 11.10.
Rationale
Firefox startup on ARM is so slow that it can be faster to install a different browser and start that, even if one starts opening the terminal to do so *after* beginning the firefox startup process. This does not reflect well on firefox, and needs to be sorted.
User stories
Assumptions
Design
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Implementation
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UI Changes
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Code Changes
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Migration
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- data migration, if any
- redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
- how users will be pointed to the new way of doing things, if necessary.
Test/Demo Plan
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Unresolved issues
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BoF agenda and discussion
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