On Thu, Nov 17, 2016 at 07:20:36AM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote: > I haven't tried upgrading to Firefox 50 yet so this is pure > speculation. > > What you're seeing seems to indicate that firefox 50 (or the > underlying toolkit) is using something that needs GL acceleration to > display the menus. The fallback code is either completely broken or > assumes that you are running a compositing window manager (which cwm > isn't). You can try to launch xcompmgr(1) in your X session to see if > it fixes the problem.
Running xcompmgr(1) did not seem to fix the issue. I appreciate the suggestion though. I was not aware of xcompmgr(1)'s existence. I am now enjoying transitions with xcompmgr -c -f. I suppose this is another reason to look forward to inteldrm(4) support for Skylake chips. Bryan
