Re: Firefox testing - offscreen surfaces and OMTC

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I've been running nightly with this enabled for quite a while on Intel
and it's been fine.

Note that OMTC is required for e10s.

The layer acceleration pref is a totally different thing and will stay
off for the near future. It's affected by a bug in libxcb which has been
patched but not made it to release yet:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84252

On 08/21/2015 01:33 AM, Martin Stransky wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I'd use some testing for new Firefox feature - offscreen surfaces [1].
> It may also fix crashes when OMTC is enabled [2]. Browser should be a
> bit faster with those features on.
> 
> How to test?
> 
> - Install Firefox 40 on Fedora 22,23,Rawhide (you'd need Gtk3 build)
> - go to about:config, click to any key and add a new one, boolean type.
> The new key name is "layers.use-image-offscreen-surfaces" and set it to
> true.
> - enable "layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled" which may be disabled
> now.
> - restart your browser.
> 
> And you're set now. Please report any oddity (different than the usual
> ones :)) at #BZ.
> 
> Thanks!
> ma.
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1015218
> [2] Off Main Thread Composition - layout rendering in separate thread.
> New feature in Firefox 40.
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