690901 - Start building a new profile in Java instead of waiting for Gecko to load

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

We might get some speed improvements during profile creation if we start making the folder, creating profiles.ini and copying any pre-built files into the folder while in Java. If we could do some of this work before (or while) Gecko is loading, it would be less work to do while the app UI is trying to load.

Comment 1

[David Teller [:Yoric] - still alive but not very active]

If it succeeds, would it be interesting to do the same kind of platform-optimized initialization on all platforms?

Comment 2

[Wesley Johnston (:wesj)]

We kinda sorta do this now with the java profile creation stuff. I'm not sure if BrowserProvider is always created before GeckoApp or not (I would think its not, but I've seen things appear in logcat that suggest otherwise?).
All we do there is create profiles.ini and a profile folder (and potentially an empty history database). Anything/What else do we want to do?

Comment 3

[BMO Automation]

Closing all opened bug in a graveyard component