1250795 - Explain filters in Performance tool

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Developer Documentation Graveyard :: Developer Tools, enhancement)

Description

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1241469 +++

The Performance panel within the DevTools has some filters, which need to be explained.

This explanation should probably be added as a table to https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Performance/UI_Tour explaining each filter within the menu.

Sebastian

Comment 1

[Jordan Santell [:jsantell] [@jsantell]]

We have some open bugs that could be tackled to make this easier -- some background info in bug 1241469 of the confusion between marker names not matching up.

In bug 1176540, we should group together marker types, so all GC markers are in the same filter, parse html/xml the same filter, etc.

Comment 2

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

Thank you for the info, Jordan!

It's still not clear to me yet, whether bug 1176540 targets to align the marker and filter names and store additional info as meta info (which is displayed at the right-side panel when the event is clicked), or whether its goal is to let one filter cover multiple events, e.g. having a filter "Parsing" toggling the markers for "Parse HTML" and "Parse XML".

Sebastian

Comment 3

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