692068 - Notification alert from showAlertNotification flickres. And browser area repainting fails.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Alice0775 White]

Build Identifier:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/149fc4a6efca
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111004 Firefox/10.0a1 ID:20111004030858

Notification alert from showAlertNotification flickres.
And browser area repainting fails.

See screen capture:
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWmOJAMCyzE

Problem happen:
  Windows XP Classic and Luna
  Windows7 Classic and AeroBasic 
  And this is regardless of HWA on/off

Problem not happen:
  Windows7 Aero
  Ubuntu10.04.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start Firefox with clean profile
2  Open Error console
3. Evaluate the following code:

Components.classes["@mozilla.org/alerts-service;1"]. getService(Components.interfaces.nsIAlertsService).showAlertNotification("chrome://mozapps/skin/downloads/downloadIcon.png", "Alert title", "Alert text goes here. the alert notifucation flickers",  false, "", null, "");

Actual Results:

  Notification alert from showAlertNotification flickres.
  And browser area repainting fails.

Expected Results:

  No flicker and repainting performed properly


Regression window(m-c hourly):
Works;
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/cb4b93331e4f
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20110929 Firefox/10.0a1 ID:20110929030852
Fails:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e7854b4d29ba
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20110929 Firefox/10.0a1 ID:20110929012133
Pushlog:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=cb4b93331e4f&tochange=e7854b4d29ba

And the following try serber build ( https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=690828#c5 9 works fine.

Suspected:
e7854b4d29ba	Michael Wu — Bug 675553 - Switch from PRBool to bool on a CLOSED TREE , r=bsmedberg,khuey,bz,cjones

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

See originally report http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=11326643#p11326643 .

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Alice0775 White does the try server build mentioned in bug 692117 fix this issue too?

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

(In reply to Boris Zbarsky (:bz) from comment #2)
> Alice0775 White does the try server build mentioned in bug 692117 fix this
> issue too?

The try server build seems to fix the problem.(I tried 10 times)
http://hg.mozilla.org/try/rev/feb454867226
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111005 Firefox/10.0a1 ID:20111005130150

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

I cannot reproduce the problem anymore.
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c3a50afc2243
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:10.0a1) Gecko/20111007 Firefox/10.0a1 ID:20111007031227