Closed
Bug 894631
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
Hardware acceleration increases startup times
Categories
(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)
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RESOLVED
INVALID
People
(Reporter: bug.zilla, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: perf)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20130712 Firefox/25.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20130712030203
Steps to reproduce:
Disabled HW acceleration
Actual results:
Startup was faster
Expected results:
Startup should be unaffected.
My testing is not scientific, but see here:
http://www.ghacks.net/2013/07/12/firefox-starting-slow-try-disabling-hardware-acceleration/
Possibly related to:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721892
It's a pretty bad advice to disable HWA, because it used largely in content rendering and compositing, so it will degrade the perfs during browsing, which is the main part of the user experience.
Are you able to reproduce this issue with Firefox 22 and old versions?
(use a clean profile https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles)
Flags: needinfo?(bug.zilla)
It is actually not a big issue for me - I would never disable HWA. I was just highlighting it in case it pointed to a real bug.
Some more unscientific testing with a clean profile and yes, it's slower.
Happy for the bug to be closed if you don't think it's an issue.
Flags: needinfo?(bug.zilla)
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 11 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
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