The previously discussed Quick Filter Bar interface landed in time for Thunderbird (Lanikai) 3.1 beta 2 (whose release is real-soon-now). Although the Quick Filter Bar already contains dangerously high levels of awesome, we made sure to make it extensible so you can cram even more awesome in. As an example, I have created an extension [...]
Tagged extensions, jetpack, quick filter barNow that Thunderbird 3.1 is string/feature-frozen it’s time to focus on performance. This post is just to make sure that people who are also working on similar things know what I’m up to. For example, there’s some very exciting work going on involving adding a startup timeline to mozilla-central that everyone keeping up-to-date with mozilla [...]
Tagged GWT, SpeedTracer, systemtapFor the Thunderbird 3.1 release cycle we are not just fixing UX problems but also resolving various performance issues. The key to defeating performance problems, like the key to defeating bad guys in movies, is to make sure they are dead. If you want to fight the bad guy again, you can just assume that [...]
Tagged graphviz, grokexplain, performance, sqlite, systemtap==================== ms # —– Event Loop: nsInputStreamReadyEvent 7119 11 —– Input Events: nsInputStreamPump 7119 11 —– Pump Events: thunk:nsNNTPProtocol::QueryInterface(…) 7119 11 ==================== ms # —– Event Loop: nsInputStreamReadyEvent 6284 15 nsTimerEvent 242 123 —– Timers: nsUITimerCallback 121 2 —– Input Events: nsInputStreamPump 6284 15 —– Pump Events: thunk:nsNNTPProtocol::QueryInterface(…) 6283 15 As of late, I’ve noticed [...]
Tagged systemtap, utraceThanks to the efforts of Makoto Kato (jp-blog en-blog twitter) whom you may remember as the bringer of CJK bi-gram tokenization, I have just pushed tokenizer support for case-folding, accent-folding, and voiced sound mark magic to comm-central. The net result is that searches for “ĝLȬdÅ” will now find “gloda” and vice versa. Less crazy searches [...]
Tagged gloda, sqlite, tokenizerWhat was just the quick-search box in Thunderbird 2 is now also the home to global search in Thunderbird 3. This hasn’t turned out splendidly, although we didn’t expect that it would. Some people think quick-search is gone because they do not realize you can change the modes of the search box. Other people are [...]
Tagged extensionjetpack.future.import("thunderbird.compose"); jetpack.thunderbird.compose.appendComposePanel({ onReady: function (panel, composeContext) { let doc = panel.contentDocument; let msgNode = $("<span />", doc.body).appendTo(doc.body); let started = Date.now(); setInterval(function() { let words = composeContext.getPlaintextContents().split(/\s+/); let secs = Math.ceil((Date.now() – started) / 1000); let wordsPerMinute = Math.floor((words.length * 60) / secs); msgNode.text(wordsPerMinute + " words per minute."); }, 1000); panel.show(); }, [...]
Tagged jetpackFollowing in the footsteps of the MIT SIMILE project’s Exhibit tool (originally authored by David Huynh) and Thunderbird Seek extension (again by David Huynh), we are hoping to land faceted global search for Thunderbird 3.0 (a la gloda) in beta 4. I think it’s important to point out how ridiculously awesome the Seek extension is. [...]
Tagged facets, gloda, simile, Thunderbird, timelineThe greatest problem with performance profiling is getting as much information as possible while affecting the results as little as possible. For my work on pecobro I used mozilla’s JavaScript DTrace probes. Because the probes are limited to notifications of all function invocations/returns with no discretion and there is no support for JS backtraces, the [...]
Tagged chronicle, doccelerator, dtrace, JSViz, pecobro, performance, profiling, vmware, vprobes