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Mike Conley
Personal blog · mikeconley.ca/blogprogrammingsystems
Mike Conley's personal blog at mikeconley.ca covers programming and systems. Since 2011, 17 different Hacker News readers have linked it 20 times, most often “Improving Firefox Startup Time with the About:Home Startup Cache”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mozilla engineer's blog on Firefox performance and internals, including docshell notes and profiling. HN commenters link it as background on Firefox changes and how to help with performance work.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Improving Firefox Startup Time with the About:Home Startup Cache2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-07-16
What Hacker News says?
> How much of a performance improvement does this make? For a user with an SSD, perhaps not much. But there are still a lot of users out there with magnetic hard drives. Firefox has to do a decent amount of I/O at startup, and unneeded disk seeks add up for these users. In addition, Firefox formerly checked for these files on the main thread, which is especially bad for performance. (Firefox engineer Mike Conley wro…
Comment linking /blog/2019/05/16/a-few-words-on-main-thread-disk-access-for-general-audiences/
on “Firefox 69.0 Released”Submitted Making tab switching faster in Firefox with tab warming as a story · 153 points
HN discussion> I've never seen anyone dig through VCS history to gain a better understanding of code. I'm actually going through the ancient CVS history of Mozilla Firefox in order to learn about a relatively poorly understood piece of code that's still in there to this day: http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2014/07/07/docshell-in-a-nutshell-... and http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2014/08/10/docshell-in-a-nutshell-...
Comment linking /blog/2014/08/10/docshell-in-a-nutshell-part-2-the-wonder-years-1999-2004/
on “OS X 10.10 – Source Code”Submitted Australis Performance Post-mortem Part 4: On Tab Animation as a story · 36 points
HN discussionMike Conley has picked up the Quantum performance baton from Ehsan, and has started posting Performance fixes on his blog [1]. Please write to him; he is good with replying, and will provide instructions on how to profile your Mac machines. 1. https://mikeconley.ca/blog/2018/03/01/firefox-performance-up...
Comment linking /blog/2018/03/01/firefox-performance-update-2/
on “Firefox 59 released”Submitted Firefox Performance Update #3 as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFYI, you can help submit a performance profile to Mozilla so they can work to resolve this: http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2015/05/04/electrolysis-and-the-bi...
Comment linking /blog/2015/05/04/electrolysis-and-the-big-tab-spinner-of-doom/
on “Multiprocess Firefox”Submitted Improving Firefox Startup Time with the About:Home Startup Cache as a story · 3 points
HN discussionOld Sierra games are availble with HTML5 at http://sarien.net/ - is the html5 ScrummVM really new? http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2012/01/08/monkey-island-1-the-sec...
Comment linking /blog/2012/01/08/monkey-island-1-the-secret-of-monkey-island-running-via-javascript/
on “ScummVM ported to HTML5 - play old games in your browser”Submitted Improving Firefox Startup Time with the About:Home Startup Cache as a story · 3 points
HN discussionIn the comments, someone (from last week) linked to this post: http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2011/09/07/creating-a-new-thunderb... So, it seems like work on a better address book is ongoing.
Comment linking /blog/2011/09/07/creating-a-new-thunderbird-address-book-the-feature-page-and-some-literature/
on “A new way to sync Google Contacts”Submitted Making tabs close faster in multi-process Firefox as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted No, that's not "it" for Thunderbird... as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox Front-End Performance Update #12 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Australis Performance Post-mortem Part 5: The Customize Mode Transition as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox Front-End Performance Update #13 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Electrolysis Code Spelunking: How links open new windows in Firefox as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Firefox/Thunderbird handmade leather wallet as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Thunderbird will be the default e-mail client for Ubuntu Oneiric as a story · 1 points
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