1905141 - Blinking white screen problem on all firefox based browsers

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[CLumsyKnight]

Attachment: Waterfox 2024-06-27 19.48 profile.json.gz

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/115.0

Steps to reproduce:

Pushing my gpu to its limits gtx 1070 8gb gpu

Actual results:

Firefox browsers start blinking with white screen.
https://share.firefox.dev/3L08pk7

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Graphics' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Erich Gubler [:ErichDonGubler] (he/him)]

CLumsyKnight: This seems unexpected, and probably a regression? Could you please use mozregression to determine when this regressed, up to maybe a year back?

Is it possible to capture a screen recording of what's happening, too? This might help us determine a better triage owner.

Also, it'd be great if you could attach what gets put into your clipboard by the Copy raw data to clipboard button in about:support.

Tentatively triaging as S2, since this seems severe. The spread of this issue is unclear.

This may be a duplicate of bug 1903048.

Comment 3

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

[A few drive-by notes when looking at the group of bugs that were linked up with bug 1903048:]

(In reply to Erich Gubler [:ErichDonGubler] from comment #2)

CLumsyKnight: This seems unexpected, and probably a regression?

Probably not a regression (or not a recent one) given that the bug is being reported for version 115 (based on comment 0 UA-string, and based on the linked profile which says "Name and version: Waterfox 115" in the Profile Info section.)

This may be a duplicate of bug 1903048.

Probably not the same as that one, actually -- notable differences:

• Bug 1903048 and friends (notably bug 1897444) seem to have been regressions in v127, whereas this bug here is about 115 per above.
• Bug 1903048 and friends seem to be specific to Adreno GPU, whereas this bug here is about gtx 1070 (from NVIDIA)

Reporter: would you mind seeing if you can reproduce this same issue in an up-to-date Firefox install? This might be something that's already been fixed since 115 was released (nearly a year ago).

Comment 4

[CLumsyKnight]

It used to happening on my firefox dev edition but it got fixed by itself or something like that i guess its not happening anymore on firefox dev edition browser.

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

That's good news! Thanks.

Comment 6

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(presumably it'll get fixed in waterfox too once they update to a new enough version of the codebase that has whatever fixed this.)