Can you reproduce this? Either way, you can reply to me off list and we can try to figure out what's going on.
-Jeff On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 4:04 PM, <ferdy.christ...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wednesday, September 12, 2018 at 10:07:20 PM UTC+2, Jeff Muizelaar wrote: >> In bug 1490742 I have enabled WebRender in Nightly on non-laptop >> Windows 10 Nvidia (~17% of our Nightly audience). This is a rewrite of >> much the graphics backend in Firefox. We expect some edge-case >> regressions, but generally nothing serious. We have quite a few staff >> and volunteers who have been using WebRender for months without major >> issues. >> >> If you're on this hardware and you see a problem please file a bug. >> You can check if you're using WebRender by looking at the Compositing >> section of about:support. Further, WebRender should be generally >> usable on all platforms other than Android right now so if you want to >> be keen you can try it out now with the gfx.webrender.all pref. >> >> -Jeff > > Congrats on the milestone. > > That said, I do want to report that my attempt to try it failed miserably. > > I installed the new nightly. Upon first opening, I noticed that the welcome > page was having minor glitches, white lines flickering when scrolling. > > Testing on one of my own pages (some arguably complex in compositing) I see > several misplaced pixels, shadows breaking, etc. The browser then crashed, > then froze up all of Windows for a few minutes. > > After shutting down Nightly via task manager, I opened up Developer Edition, > my go-to browser. It seems the Nighty crash took down all of that too. I've > tried several restarts but it failed to launch. I had to start from a new > profile, and lost all my optimizations, add-ons, history, passwords. > > Maybe I'm just terribly unlucky. I'm on Windows 10 using a Nvidia GTX1070. I > allowed the sending of crash reports when it crashed. > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
