Firefox OS is using the Electrolysis code, and since it is all the same core, Gecko, this means Firefox Desktop and Firefox Android are benefiting from engineers that were allocated to Firefox OS continuing to make Electrolysis better for all three targets.
There are plenty of engineers still working on Projects Snappy and MemShrink who are looking directly at the metrics related to the performance problems you describe.
The places database is known to have serious performance problems, as you discovered. It is difficult to reengineer but it is being worked on.
Finally, 64 bit windows builds are not being abandoned. They are being disabled for a time until the issues with marking bugs as 64 or 32 bit and other administrative details are ironed out.
These are my own perceptions and opinions about the situation.
Thank for enlightening us on the matter.
Well, maybe that would be worth a blog post ?
What about a quarterly "state of the union" to let people see the big picture instead of apparently unrelated and confusing press release ? Not that it's a due but it would certainly help your communication ;-)
There are plenty of engineers still working on Projects Snappy and MemShrink who are looking directly at the metrics related to the performance problems you describe.
The places database is known to have serious performance problems, as you discovered. It is difficult to reengineer but it is being worked on.
Finally, 64 bit windows builds are not being abandoned. They are being disabled for a time until the issues with marking bugs as 64 or 32 bit and other administrative details are ironed out.
These are my own perceptions and opinions about the situation.