1111223 - Black area on page while scrolling

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Roman R.]

Attachment: black area during scrolling

Sometimes, when I scroll content on a page, I get a black area that disappears in a few seconds (maybe 2 or 3 sec). 

I think I scroll using the two-finger gesture on my touchpad; although, it is possible that the problem appears when I scroll using other methods too.

The problem has happened on various websites. I am attaching a screenshot.

Maybe this is related to bug 1036728.

Comment 1

[:Gijs (he/him)]

What version of Firefox is this? If it's Nightly, any chance you can use mozregression to narrow down when this started happening? And could you please post the contents of about:support's graphics section? Thanks!

Comment 2

[Roman R.]

It IS Nightly, and I've experienced the problems for quite a long time.

For now, I will just post the graphics section's content:

Adapter Description	AMD Radeon HD 7640G
Adapter Drivers	aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx32 aticfx32 aticfx32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64
Adapter RAM	512
Device ID	0x9903
Direct2D Enabled	Blocked for your graphics driver version. Try updating your graphics driver to version ATI Catalyst 14.6+ or newer.
DirectWrite Enabled	false (6.2.9200.16581)
Driver Date	4-17-2014
Driver Version	14.100.0.0
GPU #2 Active	false
GPU Accelerated Windows	1/1 Direct3D 11 (OMTC)
Subsys ID	1833103c
Vendor ID	0x1002
WebGL Renderer	Google Inc. -- ANGLE (AMD Radeon HD 7640G Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0)
windowLayerManagerRemote	true
AzureCanvasBackend	skia
AzureContentBackend	cairo
AzureFallbackCanvasBackend	cairo
AzureSkiaAccelerated	0

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Does this still happen for you?
If it is, can you please determine the regression range?

Comment 4

[neopeeves]

Once firefox hits 1,000,000K memory usage, black areas start appearing all over the UI. Eventually, this happens to the content area and turns it completely black. At which point, I have to restart firefox.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk, NI for questions) from comment #3)
> Does this still happen for you?
> If it is, can you please determine the regression range?

(guessing Roman no longer sees this)

Comment 6

[Milan Sreckovic [:milan] (needinfo for best results)]

We are probablu hitting the limit of the image cache, especially if there are animated images involved, because of the bug 686905.  If this wasn't windows, I would have asked if these are bad tiles, but we don't tile on Windows.