687253 - UI messed up on Windows 8 Dev Preview

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 686782

(Core :: Widget: Win32, defect)

Description

[Daniel Siladji]

Attachment: screen2.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; Win64; x64; rv:9.0a1) Gecko/20110916 Firefox/9.0a1
Build ID: 20110916071142

Steps to reproduce:

I just started Firefox Nightly x64, and browsed some sites.


Actual results:

The UI was messed up


Expected results:

The UI should be like on Windows 7

Comment 1

[Daniel Siladji]

Attachment: Another screenshot

Comment 2

[Daniel Siladji]

Attachment: Yet another screenshot

Comment 4

[Chris B.]

I have another screenshot in regards to this bug, which I have never seen before.

I was browsing on www.kobobooks.com and noticed the book images that are hidden below the current view are being copied over to the vertical scrollbar area.

Graphic Card = EVGA GTS450 PCI Express x16
NVIDIA Driver = 285.38
Windows = Windows 8 Developer 64-Bit

Comment 5

[Chris B.]

Attachment: Images Being Copied to Scrollbar Area

Comment 6

[Jonathan Guerin]

I'm observing the same thing on 7.0.1.

Comment 7

[Chris B.]

Is anyone looking into this bug?

I am not familiar with C++ coding, but after working with Nightly and Windows 8 for two months now, it seems like Firefox is not actively refreshing all elements on the screen under Windows 8 when Hardware Acceleration is turned on.  Sometimes I need to go to another tab and back to the original one in order for the page artifacts to disappear and render correctly.

This also occurs with the tabs on top (inactive / active).  I switch tabs, but the other one still appears as active.

Turning off Hardware Acceleration fixes this problem, but then I don't like how the fonts look.



Here is my Graphics Info:

Adapter Description = NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450
Vendor ID = 10de
Device ID = 0dc4
Adapter RAM = 1024
Adapter Drivers = nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version = 8.17.12.8562
Adapter RAM (GPU #2) = Unknown
Adapter Drivers (GPU #2) = Unknown
Direct2D Enabled = false
DirectWrite Enabled = false (6.2.8102.0)
ClearType Parameters = ClearType parameters not found
WebGL Renderer = Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450) -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 0.0.0.809)
GPU Accelerated Windows = 0/3

Comment 8

[Chris B.]

Attachment: Artifacts on Page (Hardware Acceleration ON)

Comment 9

[Chris B.]

Platform should be both 32-Bit and 64-Bit, because the Bug Poster is using 64-Bit and I am using 32-Bit and the bug appears on both Firefox platforms.

Comment 10

[TinyButStrong]

Microsoft released Windows Consumer Preview (6.2 8250) today, installed here (x64) and I confirm same issue. Tested current Nightly, UX and release. Old versions like Firefox 6 are affected as well.

My GPU adapter info from about:support:

Graphics

        Adapter Description
        NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

        Vendor ID
        0x10de

        Device ID
        0x1200

        Adapter RAM
        1024

        Adapter Drivers
        nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um

        Driver Version
        8.17.12.9573

        Driver Date
        2-9-2012

        Direct2D Enabled
        true

        DirectWrite Enabled
        true (6.2.8250.0)

        ClearType Parameters
        Gamma: 2200 Pixel Structure: RGB ClearType Level: 100 Enhanced Contrast: 50

        WebGL Renderer
        Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti  ) -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 1.0.0.963)

        GPU Accelerated Windows
        1/1 Direct3D 10

        AzureBackend
        direct2d

If need more info, let me know.

Comment 11

[Cork]

bah the component was messed up, sorry about that.

Comment 12

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

Can we confirm this is specific to browser w/hardware acceleration enabled? I'm not having any trouble using GDI.

Comment 13

[Jim Mathies [:jimm]]

This looks like a dupe of bug 686782.