634797 - Graphics information about:support is wrong after toggled the hardware acceleration in option dialog

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

Build Identifier:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101211
Firefox/4.0b8pre ID:20101211030333

Graphics information about:support is wrong after toggled the hardware acceleration in option dialog.

Graphics information in default is as follows.

Graphics
  Adapter Description: ATI Radeon HD 4300/4500 Series
  Vendor ID: 1002
  Device ID: 954f
  Adapter RAM: 512
  Adapter Drivers: aticfx64 aticfx64 aticfx32 aticfx32 atiumd64 atidxx64 atiumdag atidxx32 atiumdva atiumd6a atitmm64
  Driver Version: 8.812.0.0
  Driver Date: 1-4-2011
  Direct2D Enabled: true
  DirectWrite Enabled: true (6.1.7600.20830, 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


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Minefield with new profile
2. Tools > Options > Advanced > General, uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" and click OK
3. Tools > Options > Advanced > General, check "Use hardware acceleration when available" and click OK
4. Open about:support

Actual Results:
  Direct2D Enabled: false
  DirectWrite Enabled: false (6.1.7600.20830, font cache n/a)
  GPU Accelerated Windows: 0/1


Expected Results:
  Direct2D Enabled: true
  DirectWrite Enabled: true (6.1.7600.20830, font cache n/a)
  GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 Direct3D 10

Comment 1

[Drew Willcoxon :adw]

I can't reproduce on a Mac.  Alice, do you still see the problem in a recent nightly?

The front-end just displays what the graphics back-end reports, so tentatively moving to Core::Graphics.