750713 - Android Looper on Gecko thread is only processed while Gecko events are also processed

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[James Willcox (:snorp) ([e-mail]) (he/him)]

We have an Android Looper on the Gecko thread, but it is only processed when we have work to do in the normal Gecko loop (see GeckoAppShell::PumpMessageLoop and mozilla::ipc::MessagePump::Run). Looper provides no facility to know when it has work to do, so this is the best we can do right now. The consequence is that Looper tasks are not guaranteed to be run in any reasonable time (or at all).

Comment 1

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