From nobody Sat Jun 26 19:16:30 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-gecko@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FE8911E3857 for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:16:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Received: from out2.migadu.com (out2.migadu.com [IPv6:2001:41d0:2:aacc::]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4GC3Wp3Gm8z3Npg for ; Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:16:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from greg@unrelenting.technology) Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2021 19:16:30 +0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=unrelenting.technology; s=key1; t=1624734994; h=from:from:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date:message-id:message-id: to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version:content-type:content-type: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding: in-reply-to:in-reply-to:references:references; bh=Bbfiv8lAMazl8uSdsvrE882FdXNAolwi7t8t8jFbOGA=; b=Kdnub1+coz0BvidgwqJ+Owvfpd2KcE0dfDKven3qPiNEkIPAqLOBdz3uCYvGS18mxcANZM tRPdG/uEp01MmeBnhzOuES7yy/tlJl3/XoL9sMpcJJ1SJpsq1WwYX5hKeNgoKtR0IvINfC hVnKwHEiHIL3J6M+lQNjEpiaCOFGFjahFHLQQAuOehMhh9txoam0AfhwN88RSif7deJwpr c+crtq4oEHveXgZPbTgUxPYI8MzJSWB4DIXxs410rlA049tnBvl8cJEV2xkn6e4kbMcUdX oAI78vuera47w/dqO190/h4y7ZDRkIIjm9vjkaVyR5e+TTDLXV105dW2ALzPdQ== X-Report-Abuse: Please report any abuse attempt to abuse@migadu.com and include these headers. From: Greg V To: freebsd-gecko@freebsd.org, Graham Perrin Subject: Re: Firefox 89, WebRender, KDE Plasma and XRender In-Reply-To: <02790acf-513d-ed17-7543-10fa67c3ed78@gmail.com> References: <02790acf-513d-ed17-7543-10fa67c3ed78@gmail.com> Message-ID: <60E16CFD-E01C-4F54-ABBC-43997C04EAD2@unrelenting.technology> List-Id: Gecko Rendering Engine issues List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-gecko List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-gecko@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_OUT X-Migadu-Auth-User: greg@unrelenting.technology X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4GC3Wp3Gm8z3Npg X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On June 26, 2021 5:40:27 PM UTC, Graham Perrin = wrote: >Please > >Where about:support shows WebRender for compositing, is there any=20 >benefit to setting preferences such as the two below? > >gfx=2Ewebrender=2Eall true You can set it to force WebRender on, even if the hardware probing and/or = qualification failed=2E If it already shows WebRender, Firefox has successfully gathered hardware = info and decided that the GPU is good=2E So you don't strictly *need* to fo= rce it=2E Just hope that the updates won't ever break the detection :) >gfx=2Ewebrender=2Eenabled true This one should not be touched=2E >In compositor preferences for KDE Plasma, my rendering backend is XRender= =2E > >(If I choose OpenGL 2=2E0 or 3=2E1, panels lose transparency=2E) > >Does XRender in any way negate the benefits of WebRender? Nah, what's happening in your X compositor has nothing to do with what's g= oing on inside Firefox=2E