1128343 - Version 35.0.1 continues with black screen (display driver) issues as previously identified in version 33.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1230100

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Craig Peters]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150122214805

Steps to reproduce:

Currently running Firefox 35.0.1 version. This seems to happen more often when multiple tabs are open. I am a student and have multiple tabs open on a regular basis. This has happened during homework assignments and tests, resulting in failing grades for these assignments.


Actual results:

Message displayed in lower-right corner of screen saying something about the display drivers failed and was recovered. Message disappears too quickly to obtain exact error message. Multiple attempts to refresh page did not return pages to visible material. Screen stays black until Firefox is closed and reopened.


Expected results:

If display drivers were recovered, I would expect my pages to be visible again after refreshing. This is not happening.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Can you please post the graphic section from about:support (enter as URL).

moving to Core:graphics: it seems that recovering from a driver crash is broken.

Comment 2

[Craig Peters]

At the moment there is nothing to post, if I am understanding correctly what you are asking. When it happens again, I will attempt to take a screen capture and post it here.

Comment 3

[Benoit Girard (:BenWa)]

CC'ing bas. I know there was talk about handling driver resets.

Comment 4

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

duping this forward to bug 1230100 as it has more recent information, but is also not 100% reliably reproducible.