1243471 - Consider StrictMode's penaltyDropBox in pre-release builds (via telemetry?)

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Comella (:mcomella) [NI reported issues only: ex-Mozilla]]

In bug 1239376, we talked about using penaltyDeath for ~a week on Nightly to catch bugs. It's a little aggressive and we can get similar data in a less aggressive package from `penaltyDropBox` [1], which stores the StrictMode violations in a central location. We could use a periodic upload service (e.g. telemetry) to upload it to a server for analysis.

Additionally, we can run it on pre-release builds (or maybe even release, if there are no perf implications).

This isn't a feasible alternative to bug 1239376 because building the infrastructure to upload & analyze will take too much time.

[1]: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/os/StrictMode.VmPolicy.Builder.html#penaltyDropBox%28%29

Comment 1

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