Firefox/Projects/E10S Scope Investigation

Document scope of work for process separation in Firefox & port one feature as an experiment.

Status

• IN FLIGHT
• Project Lead: dolske
• Project Members:
• starting to map out code issues, have first pass of pwmgr patch done.

Goals

• Understand tasks and difficulty required for Firefox E10S.
• Create some deliverable document outlining work.
• Port one feature to work in the E10S environment.

Non-Goals

• Will not be actually enabling Firefox E10S.

Timeline / Milestones

• TBD

These are the bugs of interest:

Requirements

?

Dependencies

Lots of churn and unfinished bits in E10N Project branch.

Testing

None; this is primarily a scope investigation and not implementation. Password manager changes will be covered by automated tests.

Related Projects

None