591734 - Setting layers.accelerate-all to true causes some dialogs to become transparent

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 593272

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[IU]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100828 Firefox/4.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100828 Firefox/4.0b5pre ID:20100828040640

Setting layers.accelerate-all to true causes some dialogs to become transparent.  See attached screenshot.  I'm thinking this is related to the recent deprecation of popup, as it also causes context menus that use popup, instead of menupopup, to be transparent, when certain hardware acceleration is enabled.

As such, I'm not sure if this bug report is invalid or not, but it makes some hardware acceleration occasionally unusable.



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. open about:config
2. Set layers.accelerate-all to true
3. Visit https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?q=&cat=all&lver=4.0&pid=1&sort=&pp=20&lup=&advanced=on
4. Locate a compatible addon and click "Add to Firefox"
5. The "Software Installation" dialog opens up transparent (see attached screenshot).

Comment 1

[IU]

Attachment: Screenshot: transparent "Software Installation" dialog box

Comment 2

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Confirming:
Adapter Description Radeon X1950 
ProVendor ID1002
Device ID7280
Adapter RAM512
Adapter Driver sati2dvag  
Driver Version 8.593.100.0
Driver Date7-21-2009
Direct2D Enabledfalse
DirectWrite Enabledfalse

Comment 3

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

This needs to be confirmed by someone before I'll block on it. Renom when necessary.

Comment 4

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Confirming again by testing against a Build built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/0487454f4219 (20100830 Nightly).

The Issue is triggered also by opening the "About Minefield" Dialog Box ("Help"/"About") or opening the "Manage Search Engines ..." Dialog Box from the Search Bar.

It seems some certain Kind of Dialog Boxes are affected. Thus renominating.

Comment 5

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

I hope and suspect that this will be fixed by the patches in bug 579276, but if it doesn't, this still definitely needs to be fixed.

Comment 6

[Alice0775 White]

The following message appears in the error console when I open dialog and popup menus.
CoCreateInstance() FAILED.

Comment 8

[Scoobidiver (away)]

Attachment: screenshot : no buttons on title bar

Comment 9

[Scoobidiver (away)]

With Intel GMA 4500M on Windows 7 64-bit, it is not transparency issue, but blank issue :
+ popup windows are blank
+ no button in the title bar

Comment 10

[Sergyk]

in win 7 ultimate 32-bit and radeon 4850 with the latest drivers dialog windows are transparent and no buttons in the title bar too.

Comment 11

[Jim Jeffery not reading bug-mail 1/2/11]

This seems fixed in the latest hourly based on cset: 

http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1730f1358f13

Comment 12

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

Hooray!