1603232 - [meta] Delete the Gecko Profiler Add-on

Status: NEW

(DevTools :: Performance Tools (Profiler/Timeline), task, P2)

Description

[Greg Tatum [:gregtatum]]

Currently the official recommended way to profile the entire browser is through installing the Gecko Profiler Add-on. In order to remove the extension, we need to remove Nightly-only feature flags for the new popup workflow, and allow it to ride the trains. The browser should also gracefully handle the migration of the old extension to enabling the popup.

Comment 1

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

(In reply to Greg Tatum [:gregtatum] from comment #0)

In order to remove the extension, we need to remove Nightly-only feature flags for the new popup workflow,
and allow it to ride the trains.

This was done in bug 1617208 and bug 1621022. All channels can enable the popup now via the button on profiler.firefox.com. This shipped with Firefox 76.

The browser should also gracefully handle the migration of the old extension to enabling the popup.

This was done in bug 1572786 and shipped with Firefox 76.

The current Firefox ESR is Firefox 78. So the new workflow is supported everywhere including ESR.
I think it's time to remove the add-on installation code and instructions from profiler.firefox.com. What do you think, Julien?

Comment 2

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Yeah I believe this is right :-)