1691198 - Use LZO compression for firefox snap package

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1686117

(Release Engineering Graveyard :: Release Automation: Snap, enhancement)

Description

[Harm van Bakel]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:85.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/85.0

Steps to reproduce:

The firefox snap package distributed by Mozilla currently uses the standard xz compression. Recently, lzo compression was added as a second compression option to improve initial startup times. A thorough overview of the benefits of LZO compression can be found here: https://ubuntu.com/blog/why-lzo-was-chosen-as-the-new-compression-method.

Actual results:

Firefox snap packages are currently built with xz compression.

Expected results:

This is a request for enhancement to change the compression method of the firefox snap to LZO to improve initial startup times. LZO is also used for the chromium snap package maintained by Canonical and has contributed to achieve initial startup time performance similar to that of standard .deb packages.

Comment 1

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Thanks Harm,
Setting a component for this in order to get the dev team involved.
(If the team feels it's an incorrect one please feel free to change it to a more appropriate one.)

Best,
Clara

Comment 2

[Clara Guerrero ( Need Info Brindusa Tot Please)]

Is it possible this is duplicate to https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1686117 ?

Clara