1512463 - The 'matches' option for actors should be able to be made dynamic

Status: NEW

(Toolkit :: Async Tooling, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

In bug 1505411, we've created a new SearchTelemetryChild actor for telemetry relating to certain pages.

At the moment, it is loaded into all child processes, even though it only applies to a few sites.

It would be useful if we could have "matches" as a dynamic option, as for the search telemetry, we may be dynamically updating the data, or not have the full data when we first update.

Comment 1

[Daniel Bodea [:danibodea]]

In hope of finding a more appropriate component, I have set this bug's component as (Toolkit) Telemetry, since it's related to Telemetry. Seems a better choice than the component of its regression bug, (Firefox) Search. 

Furthermore, this issue only affects firefox65 since it's caused by a recent push to mozilla central, right?

Thank you for your contribution!

Comment 2

[Chris H-C :chutten]

Moving to Async Tooling as an Actor feature request. Though :mconley points out we might have something that might work? https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/fd62b95c187a40b328d9e7fd9d848833a6942b57/browser/components/nsBrowserGlue.js#95-96

Comment 3

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

That unfortunately winner work - it is hard coded and defined on startup. We need something that could be set at a point where we can read stored remote settings and potentially part way through a session.