595444 - enabling "layers.accelerate-all" boolean in "about:config" creates black screens all over firefox

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 593858

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rakshith]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b5
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b5

It render a black screen while scrolling ,and disappears Firefox buttons and tabs until I hover my mouse on it (check attachment).

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Turn "layers.accelerate-all" to true in "about:config"
2.witness black body screen on next startup and disappeared icons everywhere until hovered on.
3.white close,maximize and minimize buttons. on top
4.black body screen visible again when scrolling up/down pages until hovered or tab switch (return if scrolled again)
Actual Results:  
the boolean creates black screens everywhere while scrolling and in startup and firefox buttons,urlbar etc.

Expected Results:  
accelerated direct3D hardware directx support for browsing.Increases browsing speed and smooth scolling 

I use firefox 4 beta 5 with Direct3D video enabled and all other acceleration enabled in about:config. so far none were very problematic except this one "layers.accelerate-all" gives me those mentioned problems

Comment 1

[Rakshith]

Attachment: Black screen when starting firefox and disappeared buttons (comes back when you hover on them) and white close,min,max buttons

this is when you start firefox with "layers.accelerate-all" turn true in about:config

Comment 2

[Rakshith]

Attachment: Black screen when scrolling covers entire page but I took this fast while scrolling fast so part of webpage visible.

Comment 3

[Rakshith]

Attachment: black screen when scrolled.part of webpage visible due to hovering my mouse on the links .

Comment 4

[Rakshith]

Attachment: quitting firefox just after enabling "layers.accelerate-all" to restart and check its effect (can notice it has made the 3 buttons disappear already while closing)

this is just when enabled and on process of restarting

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

if you have an Intel graphics card, it's bug 595444

Comment 6

[Rakshith]

(In reply to comment #5)
> if you have an Intel graphics card, it's bug 595444

so is it going to be worked On?

Comment 7

[Jo Hermans]

(In reply to comment #5)
> if you have an Intel graphics card, it's bug 595444

I meant bug 593858