I've noticed the battery drain on the latest nightly as well, but not sure
if that's due to tiles. Fwiw, the Android battery stats say play services
used the most battery.
Jim
On Dec 14, 2017 11:11 AM, "Myk Melez" <m...@mykzilla.org> wrote:
> James Willcox <jwill...@mozilla.com>
> 2017 November 9 at 09:16
> Folks,
>
> Jamie Nicol has added a new tiling backend on Android which, among other
> things, should allow for jank-free panning/zooming. It's prefed off right
> now in Nightly, but it would be great if people could turn it on and let us
> know how well it's working for you. The pref to flip is
> gfx.use-surfacetexture-textures. I think we'll probably try to turn it on
> in Nightly 59 if things go well.
>
> Has the behavior of this pref changed recently? I turned it on last month
> (and re-enabled it recently when I noticed that the pref had somehow been
> reset), after which I experienced what seemed to be a significant
> improvement in pan/zoom responsiveness.
>
> But yesterday and this morning that behavior has regressed, and I once
> again experience a lot of jank when panning (unsure about zoom, which I do
> less often).
>
> I also just noticed that Firefox appears to be using a huge amount of
> power. Currently it's at 42% of "app usage since full charge (3h 30m ago),"
> even though I haven't used it much this morning ("screen usage 8m"). And it
> climbed from 40% to 42% usage while I was typing this paragraph.
>
> So perhaps what I'm experiencing is actually a symptom of another problem.
>
> -myk
>
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