632742 - Black window when opening textarea (nvidia)

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[azuisleet]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b11) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b11
Build Identifier: Firefox 4b11

When clicking the text area on the specified page, after a couple seconds idle on the page, the entire window will turn black for a couple seconds. With direct2d disabled, only the text area will turn black. The window will also turn black as I leave the page as well.

I've tracked the issue down to only happening with NoScript.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit URL
2. Scroll to bottom of page, wait a couple seconds
3. Click textarea
Actual Results:  
Window or box will turn black for a couple seconds

Expected Results:  
Area appears without any hiccups

The specific system is an i7 860 with a GTX 470. My specific video drivers are NVidia's 266.58 (WHQL).

Comment 1

[azuisleet]

Attachment: Black window with d2d

Comment 2

[azuisleet]

Attachment: Black area without d2d

Comment 3

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

(In reply to comment #0)
> I've tracked the issue down to only happening with NoScript.

The NoScript interaction is weird. Do you have scripts blocked or enabled on that page?

Comment 4

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

I wasn't able to reproduce this trivially.

Comment 5

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

Can't block on unconfirmed bug on non-supported platform (win64).

Comment 6

[Joe Drew (not getting mail)]

This isn't on win64, Shaver.

Does this still happen with the latest nightly builds (http://nightly.mozilla.org - get win32, not win64)? Your driver is just old enough that we now block it by default.

If it does, can you put the Graphics section of about:support into this bug?

Minusing unless it still happens in nightlies.

Comment 7

[azuisleet]

I'm still able to reproduce the issue on the nightly build. My suspicion is that it might be a driver issue specific to the 400 series.

Adapter Description	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Vendor ID			10de
Device ID			06cd
Adapter RAM			1280
Adapter Driver		snvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version		8.17.12.6658
Driver Date			1-7-2011
Direct2D Enabled	true
DirectWrite Enabled	true (6.1.7601.17105, font cache n/a)
WebGL Renderer		Google Inc. -- ANGLE -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 0.0.0.541)
GPU Accelerated 	Windows	1/1 Direct3D 10

Comment 8

[Mike Shaver (:shaver -- probably not reading bugmail closely)]

Fixing platform field.

Comment 9

[azuisleet]

I got a friend to reproduce the black area issue with a Nvidia GTX 570 in a different system, with the same software (Firefox nightly 32-bit, NoScript). NoScript configured to only allow nvidia.com. 

Would it be helpful to capture a stack trace during the lock up?

Comment 10

[azuisleet]

Alright I looked into it and it appears the issue was NoScript's ABE functionality. When the text area was clicked, it brought up a whole control panel with images, one of the hosts was "hqnveipbwb20" which wasn't resolving quickly. NoScript was doing a blocking DNS query during the CSS restyle call, which likely explains why it turned black.

[ABE] Waiting for DNS query on hqnveipbwb20
[ABE] DNS query on hqnveipbwb20 done, 2250ms