I was also quite curious, so I started clicking up the hierarchy of that bug and ended up at:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154825#c1 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1154825#c1> (comment 2 is also useful info) Ultimate goal: no more checkerboarding in APZ. But Mason is the authority here, methinks :-) Cheers, Mike. > On 22 Mar 2016, at 15:45, David Rajchenbach-Teller <dtel...@mozilla.com> > wrote: > > Out of curiosity, what's the benefit? > > On 22/03/16 15:44, Mason Chang wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> We're changing the default graphics backend on OS X from CoreGraphics to >> Skia. In the best case, you should notice no difference. >> >> If you see any graphics artifacts on mac, please file a bug and make it >> block bug 1207332 <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207332>. >> You can verify that the artifact you're seeing is due to the switch by >> going to about:config, set the preference "gfx.content.azure.backends" to >> "cg", restarting Firefox and seeing if the artifact still appears. >> >> Thanks to Lee Salzman, Jeff Muizelaar, and Markus Stange for their >> tremendous efforts in getting this accomplished. >> >> Thanks, >> Mason >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
