1093060 - Always call XInitThreads when starting up Firefox on Linux.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 760228

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Nicolas Silva [:nical]]

Currently we only do it in nightly, or if one of the two environment variables MOZ_USE_OMTC and MOZ_OMTC_ENABLED is set.
As a result it's a pain to enable OMTC and layers acceleration outside of nightly.
In some configuration (such as recent laptops with lots of pixels) It's just not possible to watch a simple video with software compositing without bringing the CPU to it's knees, so we should make it easier for people to flip the prefs (and not have to set an environment variable).
Plus, we will need this anyway for OMTC which should get activated by default in the short term.

Comment 1

[Matt Woodrow (:mattwoodrow)]

The argument against this has always been that we're adding overhead for all the users that don't enable OMTC.

Getting OMTC landed would make this much easier :)

Comment 2

[AnAkkk]

Seems like a duplicate of 760228 which was already fixed by 994541.

Comment 3

[Nicolas Silva [:nical]]

(In reply to AnAkkk from comment #2)
> Seems like a duplicate of 760228 which was already fixed by 994541.

True that.