On Sat, 30 Apr 2011 11:21:46 +0200 Mike Hommey <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:08:00AM +0200, Antonio Ospite wrote: > > Package: iceweasel > > Version: 4.0.1-1 > > Severity: normal > > [...] > > and noticed that vertical gradients are not rendered correctly with the > > Iceweasel 4.0.1 binary distributed by Debian, I verified they do work > > with the Firefox binary provided by the upstream at > > http://www.mozilla.com/it/firefox/ > > > > Is this because I need to get some other dependency from experimental? > > > > This can be reproduced by visiting one of these sites: > > http://www.the-art-of-web.com/css/linear-gradients/ > > http://www.dynamicdrive.com/style/csslibrary/item/css3_linear_gradients/ > > The only thing I can think of that could explain the difference is > cairo. If you have some time and disk space, would you be willing to try > to rebuild iceweasel 4.0.1-1 locally, changing the > debian/xulrunner.mozconfig file to remove the --enable-system-cairo > line? > > > I did the tests with -safe-mode activated, running iceweasel from the > > console and no messages were printed there. > > > > Side note: this also affects some elements in the UI, for instance the > > tabs will look white-ish because they loose the gradients as specified > > in the style referenced by chrome://browser/content/browser.xul > > That part would look like bug 616353. > And it was it indeed, installing nvidia drivers from experimental fixed the vertical gradients as well, so I guess the binary from Mozilla was not using hardware acceleration. I think this bug can be closed as it is not really specific to Iceweasel. Thanks a lot, Mike. Best Regards, Antonio -- Antonio Ospite http://ao2.it PGP public key ID: 0x4553B001 A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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