917871 - Privacy Review: Necko Predictive Network Actions

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(mozilla.org :: Security Assurance: Review Request, task)

Description

[Curtis Koenig [:curtisk-use curtis.koenig+bzATgmail.com]]]

Initial Questions:

Project/Feature Name: Necko Predictive Network Actions
Tracking  ID:881804
Description:
This project allows us to speed up page load time by "getting the boilerplate out of the way" when we're confident what the boilerplate will be for a page load. This means one or more of: resolving DNS, performing the TCP handshake, and (where applicable) performing the TLS handshake. This has the potential to save 100ms-multiple seconds on a page load, depending on the user's configuration, internet connection, and the page being loaded. We predict in one form or another on the following events:

*Browser startup (what pages does the user usually hit immediately after starting the browser?)
*Pageload (when you load this page, or a page from this domain, what subresources or domains are very likely to be used?)
*User hovers on a link (hovering on that link? you might be thinking about clicking!)

This is inspired by chrome's predictor: http://www.igvita.com/posa/high-performance-networking-in-google-chrome/#predictor (note that we are not yet implementing "resource prefetching" and "page prerendering" in the table of techniques that chrome currently uses).
Additional Information:

Key Initiative: Firefox Desktop
Release Date: 2013-09-30
Project Status: ready
Mozilla Data: No
Mozilla Related: 
Separate Party: No

Comment 1

[Curtis Koenig [:curtisk-use curtis.koenig+bzATgmail.com]]]

So what is the status of this? Is this in the design phase? Implementation?

Comment 2

[u408661]

Modulo some perf regressions, it's ready to land.

Comment 3

[Curtis Koenig [:curtisk-use curtis.koenig+bzATgmail.com]]]

OK, I am going to stand up a wiki that is meant to gather the information needed for the privacy technical review and I'll put the url in here when I have it.

Comment 4

[Curtis Koenig [:curtisk-use curtis.koenig+bzATgmail.com]]]

The wiki form to gather and do the technical privacy review are here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Reviews/Necko

Please provide the base information for contacts in the "Document Overview" and then fill out the "Architecture" section, the rest will be done by myself and other privacy reviewers.

For an idea of what this should look like take a look at:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Reviews/ThunderbirdBigFiles

If you have other questions about how to proceed with this information let me know.

Comment 5

[u408661]

Wiki has been updated

Comment 6

[Curtis Koenig [:curtisk-use curtis.koenig+bzATgmail.com]]]

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Privacy/Reviews/Necko