747027 - Artifacts in FF in Windows 8 CP with Nvidia, esp. Gmail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 686782

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[George Gregory]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Build ID: 20120312181643

Steps to reproduce:

Run FF 11 in windows 8 Consumer Preview with NVidia graphics using the win8 driver from Nvidia.


Actual results:

I have two desktop PCs with identical MOBOs and processors running Win8CP, one has an NVIDIA GT220 graphics card and is on WiFI, the other is on integrated AMD 3000 graphics and wired connection.

The one with NVidia card shows odd artifacts around the close/minimise/maximise gadgets top right in Firefox (actually fragments from elsewhere on the display window), often these are obscured by a white box the exact size of the three gadgets.  There are also oddities in tab colouring with several tabs being "highlighted" and there is also odd tab and button colour behaviour when mousing over certain areas of some websites (esp. gmail). 

The other machine seems rock solid with no artifacts.

Other programs seem to run fine, inc. Opera, IE10 and Chrome running gmail.

I suspect the NVIDIA drivers or how firefox is coded.

For reference the mobo is ASUSTeK Computer INC. M3A76-CM 


Expected results:

Normal display of tabs, gadgets and web page buttons.

System details below:

    Windows NT 4.0
    Firefox 11.0

This happened

Every time Firefox opened
This started when...

I installed win8 CP
More Information

Application Basics
Name
Firefox
Version
11.0
User Agent
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0
Profile Directory
Open Containing Folder
Enabled Plugins
about:plugins
Build Configuration
about:buildconfig
Crash Reports
about:crashes
Memory Use
about:memory
Extensions
Name
Version
Enabled
ID
Adblock Plus
2.0.3
true
{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}
Java Console
6.0.31
true
{CAFEEFAC-0016-0000-0031-ABCDEFFEDCBA}
Zotero
3.0.3
true
[e-mail]
Zotero Scholar Citations
1.5
true
[e-mail]
Modified Preferences
Name
Value
browser.places.smartBookmarksVersion
2
browser.startup.homepage
http://www.google.co.uk/ig|http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/tv
browser.startup.homepage_override.buildID
20120312181643
browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone
rv:11.0
extensions.lastAppVersion
11.0
network.cookie.prefsMigrated
true
places.database.lastMaintenance
1334394161
places.history.expiration.transient_current_max_pages
53664
privacy.sanitize.migrateFx3Prefs
true
security.warn_viewing_mixed
false
Graphics
Adapter Description
NVIDIA GeForce GT 220
Vendor ID
10de
Device ID
0a20
Adapter RAM
1024
Adapter Drivers
nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um
Driver Version
9.18.12.9617
Driver Date
3-6-2012
Direct2D Enabled
true
DirectWrite Enabled
true (6.2.8250.0)
ClearType Parameters
ClearType parameters not found
WebGL Renderer
Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 ) -- OpenGL ES 2.0 (ANGLE 1.0.0.930)
GPU Accelerated Windows
1/1 Direct3D 10
AzureBackend
direct2d
Installed Plug-ins

    Shockwave Flash 11.2 r202
    Next Generation Java Plug-in 1.6.0_31 for Mozilla browsers
    NPRuntime Script Plug-in Library for Java(TM) Deploy
    Google Update
    Adobe PDF Plug-In For Firefox and Netscape 10.1.3
    Picasa plugin
    VLC media player Web Plugin 2.0.0
    GEPlugin 

User Agent

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:11.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/11.0

Comment 1

[Andre Klapper]

Could you attach a screenshot that does not show confidential data?
Did you file a bug against Nvidia?

Comment 2

[George Gregory]

Attachment: screenshot of artifacts and unclear tab colouring

This shot does show oddities along the tab line inc. the gadgets.  I am not sure if the whiting out of the gadgets is specific to the gadgets or just luck, I have seen a similar sized and shaped piece of white on the same line but not over the gadgets.

Can't show the effects in gmail without revealing my address unfortunately.

Have not reported this to NVidia, seems only FF affected.

GG

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

>Have not reported this to NVidia, seems only FF affected.
it's most likely a driver bug. Disabling the hardware acceleration in Firefox (options/advanced) should fix it.

Comment 4

[George Gregory]

Yes, unchecking use hardware acceleration fixed the problem.  Quite surpised to find no other progs apparently using hardware accel but this does appear to be the case for this driver. 

Ironically WebGL works fine with FF with hardware accel off, no other browser runs it at all (Ok I didn't check Chromium) with Nvidia on win8. On AMD chrome does and it is the only one.

I will raisae a bug with Nvidia.

George

Comment 5

[MrX1980]

duplicate of bug 686782 ?