716396 - Larry panel (clicking on favicon in location bar) flickers or is invisible with hardware acceleration enabled

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

The larry panel (click on the favicon in the location bar) flickers or is invisible with hardware acceleration enabled. This only started happening a few days ago when I updated my video drivers. Here's the info from about:support.

Adapter Description: Intel(R) HD Graphics Family
Vendor ID: 0x8086
Device ID: 0x0126
Adapter RAM: Unknown
Adapter Drivers: igdumd64 igd10umd64 igd10umd64 igdumdx32 igd10umd32 igd10umd32
Driver Version: 8.15.10.2538
Driver DateL 9-26-2011
Direct2D Enabled: true
DirectWrite Enabled: true (6.1.7601.17563)
ClearType Parameters: ClearType parameters not found
WebGL Renderer: Blocked for your graphics card because of unresolved driver issues.
GPU Accelerated Windows: 1/1 Direct3D 10
AzureBackend: direct2d

If I disable hardware acceleration via preferences dialog then larry works just fine. This happens on my local builds as well as nightly builds, even on a clean profile.

Comment 1

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Oh, and the menu must exist but is invisible, because if you click where the 'More info' button should be the page info dialog comes up!

Comment 2

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

Disabling what specifically fixes it? gfx.direct2d or layers.acceleration?

Comment 3

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

(In reply to Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] from comment #2)
> Disabling what specifically fixes it? gfx.direct2d or layers.acceleration?

Whatever is in the preferences dialog... Advanced->General->"Use hardware acceleration when available"

Comment 4

[Benoit Jacob [:bjacob] (mostly away)]

That disables everything. Can you try disabling individual features in about:config?

Comment 5

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

Looks like gfx.direct2d.disabled is the magic pref. Flipping that makes the dropdown work again.

Also, another thing I figured out, if I tell NVIDIA control panel to use the "high performance NVIDIA processor" instead of the "integrated graphics" for Firefox then the dropdown also works. Think this is just some bug in my particular driver?

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

is bug 716335 a dupe of this one ?

Comment 7

[Ben Turner (not reading bugmail, use the needinfo flag!)]

(In reply to Matthias Versen (Matti) from comment #6)
> is bug 716335 a dupe of this one ?

Almost certainly.

Comment 8

[Jeff Muizelaar [:jrmuizel]]

It would be interesting to know if this has always happened, or it is recent. Can you try it with older versions of Firefox?

Comment 9

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

Is this still an Issue with a recent Firefox Version and/or Intel HD Graphics Driver Version (e.g. 15.22.54.64.2622 off http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?lang=eng&changeLang=true&DwnldId=20842)?