[Bug 1905054]

Leewilliams 1905054 at bugs.launchpad.net
Mon Dec 21 20:35:21 UTC 2020


(In reply to Jeff Gilbert [:jgilbert] from comment #18)
> After bug 1680595, it should be more clear to (power) users what they can do to mitigate this.
> 
> Functionality here is, I think, working as intended now. Unfortunately the specified behavior causes certain websites (which arguably may have made poor choices) work worse for our users, whereas before things were maybe slower than they could have been, but otherwise functional.
> 
> With that in mind, since we're now following failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat spec properly, it's causing breakage. This bug is tracking the user pain-point. In order to solve the user pain-point, we might ditch failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat as accidentally-user=hostile for the time being.
> 
> Two choices:
> 1. Call these bad websites, and try outreach/education
> 2. Re-evaluate the failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat mechanism entirely

Is there a bug/explanation somewhere of what behavior changed with
failIfMajorPerformanceCaveat in FF83?

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