[Locally Stored Profiles] Automatically store the profile locally after receiving it from the addon about profiler

[julienw]

The goal is to survive a browser restart without losing your state, even if you haven't shared the profile publicly.

After sharing, should we delete the local data after changing the URL ?

Wait for symbolication to complete or no?

Actually, same question for public sharing :)

How to generate the ID?

Use a UUID ?

[mstange]

The goal is to survive a browser restart without losing your state, even if you haven't shared the profile publicly.

After sharing, should we delete the local data after changing the URL ?

I'd say yes.

Wait for symbolication to complete or no?

Actually, same question for public sharing :)

I'd say let's put it into the local database even during symbolication, and regularly update it until symbolication is done.
We can rate-limit the update based on time, and maybe even additionally use requestIdleCallback.

How to generate the ID?

Use a UUID ?

Or a sha1 of a UUID? :)

Either way sounds good as long as we don't suddenly start putting dashes or curly braces into the URL. And the ID should be independent of symbolication because we want the following scenario to work:

1. Collect the profile
2. Apply some kind of filter
3. Wait for symbolication to finish
4. Click back to clear the filter
5. Restart the browser
   If symbolication changed the URL, then the URL that you'd go back to would be invalid, and on restart we wouldn't be able to load the right profile for it.