740048 - Add telemetry to report on particularly bad cases of checkerboarding

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

After discussion on IRC, we decided it would be a good idea to add telemetry for checkerboarding.

This would work out as after any two consecutive frames with particularly bad checkerboarding (say > 75% of the screen?), a door-hanger would drop down to prompt if it's ok to report on the situation. This notification would be throttled to somewhere in the region of once a day.

The report would include the page URL, the amount of checkerboarding, the current panning velocity and the display-port strategy (obviously, along with the device information).

We could use this information to do further investigation/testing and to tweak strategies/decide on how to choose between strategies.

Comment 1

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

this doesn't sound like it would be related to telemetry

Comment 2

[Lawrence Mandel [:lmandel] (use needinfo)]

(In reply to Brad Lassey [:blassey] from comment #1)
> this doesn't sound like it would be related to telemetry

The [telemetry-needed] whiteboard tag is just a tracking flag for bugs that are to add Telemetry probes.

Comment 3

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

we have acceptable checkerboarding now, and other ways to test for it.