1268010 - Invisible animated spinning thing on google.com continuously causing paints, texture allocations and compositing

Status: NEW

(Core :: Graphics: Layers, defect, P3)

Description

[Nicolas Silva [:nical]]

Attachment: screenshot with devtools open showing the hidden troublemakers.

It's rather easy to see when layer borders are active. To catch it in the devtools, the easiest way I found was to open the inspector, and look at the running animations (animation panel on the right) like in the attached screenshot.

The presence of these invisible animated elements is pretty fishy in the first place, but I suppose we should detect them and not paint them, maybe, or at least not trigger transactions and compositing.