Closed Bug 950755 Opened 11 years ago Closed 5 years ago

network.allow-experiments undocumented and being used for release builds

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect, P5)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: mkaply, Unassigned)

Details

(Whiteboard: [necko-would-take]) 

For bug 729736, a new preferences was added called network.allow-experiments that allowed for doing some testing of SPDY in prerelease builds.

For bug 796192, this preference was used again to do some pipelining testing.

If this preference is intended for prerelease builds only, it should be set to false in release builds, even if it is not used right now because the tests are turned off.

Also, it needs to be documented somewhere, because it's kind of unsettling to see a preference that says that network experiments are being conducted.
It is not necessarily limited to pre-release builds.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
It still needs to be documented.

Enterprises don't like the notion that their browser is being experimented on.

And if you're debugging network problems, it would be nice to know that you're network options could be random.
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: INVALID → ---
Whiteboard: [necko-would-take]
Bulk change to priority: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399258
Priority: -- → P5

No longer exists.

Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago → 5 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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