Codebase to perform and analyze power consumption experiments of Firefox performing various tasks. Internal Firefox counters are compared to (and hopefully utilized as a proxy thereof) power usage of various OS components. The latter is measured using Intel Power Gadget (IPG).

Experiments are implemented as self-contained scripts, and utilize marionette-driver to perfom Firefox "tasks", while Firefox-specific metrics are being collected from the resource API in addition to power usage being measured by IPG

Install Intel Power Gadget for the appropriate OS.

Install with pip install -e, probably inside a Python 2.7 virtualenv.

The -e is not just a convenience (letting you edit the package without reinstalling it) - it's actually necessary since we don't properly package essential files like retrieve_performance_counters.js.

Once installed, run experiment scripts from another directory (a directory you want the files dumped into):

$python FF-power-consumption/scripts/cdowhygelund/Experiment\ -\ V0\ -\ high.py