415618 - Native transparency on Linux with Composite extension

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 408284

(Firefox :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Ildar Nurislamov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020404 Minefield/3.0b3pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008020404 Minefield/3.0b3pre

Now Linux is only OS with lack of native ARGB windows support out of the box. But situation is changing. Last nvidia, amd, intel drivers supports Composite extension. Now almost all Linux users can enable alpha transparency support, but other side - there is no applications that can use advantages of ARGB in  Linux.
Most sad situation with Flash plugin. Sites that uses SWF with transparent backgrounds cannot drawn correctly on Linux. Implement support of wm_mode transparent in nsplugin and Flash will release version that supports in on Linux.
Next one - divs with transparent background especially when it moved with javascript. Good example Dojo Fish eye widget - it's fast on Windows and very slow on Linux http://dojotoolkit.org/demos/fisheye-demo .it can be drawn very fast with ARGB window.
And many other cases. Dragging page content in transparent window like in Windows and other eye candies.

Implement Composite support in Linux now - and many Firefox users enable it in their configs ) It's time of transparency on Linux - and KDE4 is good example )

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Pierre Réveillon]

I think this bug should better be in "Core" > "Widgets: Gtk"