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Tasks Bugs Owners Delivery Mileston Estimated Improvments
Fastload 68045: fastload JS
brendan 0.9.6 5%
94199: fastload XBL methods and properties (hyatt) hyatt 0.9.7 3%
91242: CSS parsing is 5.5% of startup time (pierre) pierre 0.9.7 1%
Delay Loading
Resources 		101769: Stop loading plugins on startup dp 0.9.6 0.5% depends on number of plugins
75947: Security DLLs are now loaded at startup, hurting startup time ddrinan 2.2 5%
63000: Bookmarks should load asynchronously pchen 0.9.7  
76944: Lazy loading of string bundles alecf 0.9.6 0.5%
64146: Delay nsCharsetMenu initialization to avoid consuming ~2% of startup time jbetak 0.9.6 2%
97171: startup perf- remove the need of loading of langGroups.properties files at startup time to speed up startup performance jbetak 0.9.6  
97173: startup perf- remove the need of loading of unixcharset.properties files at startup time to speed up jbetak 0.9.7 ?
97174: startup perf- remove the need of loading of wincharset.properties files at startup time to speed up jbetak 0.9.6 0.5%
97175: startup perf- remove the need of loading of charsetalias.properties files at startup jbetak 0.9.6 0.5%
97176: startup perf- remove the need of loading of langGroups.properties files at startup time to speed up startup performance jbetak 0.9.6 0.5%
97172: startup perf- remove the need of loading of maccharset.properties files at startup time to speed up nhotta 0.9.6  
96529: delay loading of unicharutil in nsString case conversion code ftang 0.9.6  
96530delay loading of unicharutil in nsTextTransformer::Initialize ftang 0.9.6 0.5%
34242: X font lookups on -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* shanjian 0.9.7  
96525: delay loading of strres dll in nsProfile.cpp ccarlen 0.9.6 ?
38621: Defer loading of history related dlls till after the browser window shows up dp 0.9.7 ?
97462: Delay cookie dll initialization even further darin    
Reduce Number of
Memory Allocations
at startup 		62164: JS scopes are malloc-happy; need JS_DOUBLE_HASHING brendan 0.9.7  
48888: optimize xpcom component registry shaver 0.9.7  
106356: reduce the number of memory allocation in CSS parser pierrer 0.9.7 2%
106357: reduce number of memory allocation in XML parser heikki 0.9.7 3%
string sharing scc & jag 0.9.7  
Architectual Improvements 103916: nsStdURL::GetSpec() is 2.6% of main1()
105040: nsStdURL::SetSpec is 1% of startup 		darin 0.9.7 2%
93055: support partial reads from OnDataAvailable events darin 0.9.7  
103912: nsChromeRegistry::LoadInstallDataSource() is 2.5% of main1() dp 0.9.7 or later depends on parser improvements 2%
104957: nsParser::Tokenize takes 8% of startup dp 0.9.7 1%
26291: string bundle shouldn't be using using OpenInputStream(), block UI thread alecf 0.9.7 ?
106161: Merge Content and Layout libraries dbaron   2.5%
101838: NSPR: overall slower performance after nspr checkin [see bug 71718] sfraser 0.9.7 ?
106999: Implement native atomic operations on Mac OS 9/Mac OS X sfraser 0.9.7 ?
109207: the dtd handler take 3% of start up time heikki    
DeCOMtamination 75620: calls to nsMemory::* go through too much indirection dougt 0.9.7  
92141: spend too much time refcounting atoms dbaron 0.9.6 2-3%
92144: investigate inlining of nsCOMPtr methods dbaron 0.9.7 <2%
96108: Make nsVoidArray::ElementAt() inline (plus a few others) rjesup 0.9.7  
102453: nsSpaceManager doesn't need an XPCOM interface dbaron 0.9.6 <1%
104336: Eliminate nsIRuleNode, nsIRuleWalker, inline nsIFrame funcs hyatt 0.9.6 5%
104346: need |nsRefPtr| dbaron 0.9.7 dependency bug
Code Cleanups 104962: 3 calls to GetWndowsFolder costs 3% of startup dougt 0.9.6 3%
105042: PR_sscanf() is 1% of startup jband 0.9.6 1%
96461: ComponentManager could PLHash or PLDHash
neeti 0.9.6 minimal
13009: service manager has too many locks neeti 0.9.7  
100828: nsLocalFileMac has serious problems ccarlen 0.9.6  
Perception Improvments 66898: Active Splash screen on all platforms sfraser 0.9.8  
75599: [META] Turbo mode tracking bug
  • Fix multi-profile support
    • Correctly log off from mail accounts
      100385: ccarlen@netscape.com, 0.9.7
    • Correctly clear out any security data (saved passwords, PSM)
      86067: ccarlen@netscape.com, 0.9.6
      101263: pchen@netscape.com, 0.9.7
    • Other bugs related to multi-profile support
      99117: ccarlen@netscape.com, 0.9.6
      98736: bnesse@netscape.com, 0.9.7
  • Mozilla hangs when shutting down windows
    100319: law@netscape.com, 0.9.7
  • Turbo and new mail notification should use the same tray icon
    18729 (dependency): sspitzer@mozilla.org, 0.9.7
    97326: pchen@netscape.com, 0.9.8
  • Need confirmation dialog when "Disable QuickLaunch" systray icon menu choice is selected
    98805: blakeross@telocity.com, 0.9.7
ccarlen, pchen, law, bnesse, blakeross    
109188: investigate early main window creation trudelle    
Other 46775 [meta] static build cathleen, granrose, sfraser 0.9.7 2%
65845: incorporate code coverage info into link process dveditz 0.9.8