954104 - Add ability for disabling hardware acceleration in Preferences

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Instantbird Graveyard :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Instantbot]

*** Original post on bio 669 by Igor Paliychuk <mansonigor AT gmail.com> at 2011-01-29 14:04:00 UTC ***

*** Due to BzAPI limitations, the initial description is in comment 1 ***

Comment 1

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*** Original post on bio 669 as attmnt 511 by mansonigor AT gmail.com at 2011-01-29 14:04:00 UTC ***

Such ability is present in Firefox 4 beta 10(watch screenshot) Options->Advanced->General->use HW acceleration if possible(or something like this)
According to about:support this option changes:
gfx.direct2d.disabled from false to true
layers.acceleration.disabled from false to true
This is very usefull because hw acceleration is new feature and can make troubles for users.

Comment 2

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

*** Original post on bio 669 at 2011-01-29 15:26:23 UTC ***

Confirming, this might be wanted or nice to have for 0.3?

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

*** Original post on bio 669 at 2011-02-11 14:56:05 UTC ***

Just so that we don't forget, it was suggested on IRC that we may want to disable it by default:

23:15:11 <Mook> flo: would it be useful to consider disabling hardware accel (i.e. prefed off by default) for 0.3 if it's having too many problems? unlike firefox, instantbird probably doesn't need it just yet... nobody does benchmarks ;)

Comment 4

[Patrick Cloke [:clokep]]

Do we still think this is a problem? I suspect that almost four years later most of the graphic acceleration issues have been worked out.

Comment 5

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

I don't think this is relevant anymore, or we would have heard more recent complaints.