Open Bug 2020678 Opened 5 months ago Updated 5 months ago

Explore Using DeferredTask for about:translations Page Throttle and Debounce

Categories

(Firefox :: Translations, task)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Translations
Type:
task

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People

(Reporter: nordzilla, Unassigned)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Description

In the about:translations page we currently use setTimeout to handle certain tasks that need to run at most once ever N milliseconds while the user is actively inputting text into the source text area (throttled) and at least M milliseconds after the user has stopped inputting text (debounced).

It is generally preferred to use DeferredTask for this kind of scheduling work, however the about:translations page is an unprivileged content page and cannot directly import a system module like DeferredTask.sys.mjs.

We should explore if it's worthwhile to try to get this working with DeferredTask, and also if we should give the about:translations page more privileges. The latter may also be required in order to implement Bug 2010399.

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