1614351 - [meta] Static about:home / about:newtab at start-up

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, task)

Description

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) (PTO: May 24 - June 2nd)]

Having done a deep-dive performance audit on about:home / about:newtab, I believe we can make read and perceived start-up performance gains by having a static document that's loaded at start-up, and only dynamically generating about:home / about:newtab when absolutely necessary.

Now that the analysis is complete, we'd like to see if our plan of using a static about:home / about:newtab will in fact have a positive impact on real / perceived start-up time. If so, then we'd like to pursue actually shipping the change.

This metabug covers doing that prototyping and testing, and development if the prototype tests positively.

Comment 2

[Jessilyn Davis]

Marking as P2 to get it prioritized. Let us know if you'd like to P it differently depending on how you're organizing this work. Thanks!

:mconley - do you mind if we assign this bug to you so that it cleans up our triage/bug process for New Tab component?

Comment 3

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️) (PTO: May 24 - June 2nd)]

Sure this can be assigned to me, though as a meta, it'll probably be broken out over several people.

Comment 4

[Zibi Braniecki [:zbraniecki][:gandalf]]

Mike - do you have a plan to invalidate/regenerate the cached document on locales change and/or on langpack update?