Closed Bug 1673752 Opened 4 years ago Closed 4 years ago

Enable WebRender by default on Nightly on Gnome with proprietary Nvidia driver >= 460.32.03

Categories

(Core :: Graphics: WebRender, task, P3)

x86_64
Linux
task

Tracking

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RESOLVED FIXED
87 Branch
Tracking Status
firefox87 --- fixed

People

(Reporter: jan, Assigned: aosmond)

References

(Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: nightly-community)

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(1 file)

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/b757a23d312f5b154887b870447ddfeae8cfcc36/widget/GfxInfoX11.cpp#536

Gnome-only, because

  • on other desktop environments you need to enable "Force Composition Pipeline" in Nvidia settings to not experience choppy OpenGL.
  • KDE with disabled compositing is affected by bug 1663273.

Known bugs

  • Chrome is likewise affected by glitches after suspend/resume. According to the manual, users or distributions need to enable a specific systemd service: bug 1515253 comment 18
  • bug 1631353
  • Performance problem with multiple windows: bug 1659848 / bug 1655241 / bug 1667165 (Overall performance is still better than software rendering.)

Recent drivers (~460.32.03) resolved startup issues reported around our device reset handling.

Summary: Enable WebRender by default on Nightly on Gnome with proprietary Nvidia driver >= 455.28 → Enable WebRender by default on Nightly on Gnome with proprietary Nvidia driver >= 460.32.03
Severity: -- → S4
Priority: -- → P3

I think we can turn this on in nightly soon, waiting for bug 1678044 to be resolved so we can expand the SW-WR population in nightly before taking NVIDIA binary driver users out of that group.

llvmpipe users are now using SW-WR.

Assignee: nobody → aosmond
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Pushed by aosmond@mozilla.com: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/12744d62ec89 Enable WebRender on Linux nightly/early beta for NVIDIA binary drivers 460.32.03 or newer. r=jrmuizel
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 4 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Target Milestone: --- → 87 Branch
Regressions: 1714633
Regressions: 1714483
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