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
