QA/Platform/Graphics/Betabreakers/Firefox 46
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The purpose of this testrun is to vet video playback when hardware acceleration is not available, eg. bug 1255281
Systems
Please use the following systems/configurations for testing:
Set up the test environment
- 1. Install Firefox
- Download the latest Beta from https://beta.mozilla.org/ (make sure it's Firefox 46)
- Run installer and select customize
- Put the install in a known directory (C:\FirefoxBeta for purposes of this example)
- Do NOT allow it to launch Firefox at the end of the install
- 2. Disable the automatic updater
- Open C:\FirefoxBeta\defaults\pref\channel-prefs.js in a text editor
- Change the line reading pref("app.update.channel", "beta"); to pref("app.update.channel", "foobar");
- Save and Close the text file
- 3. Launch Firefox with a clean profile
- Run cmd.exe
- Change directory to the folder where you installed Firefox: cd C:\FirefoxBeta
- Run firefox.exe: firefox.exe -P -no-remote - This will bring up our profile selector window.
- Use the "Create Profile" button to create a profile new profile
- Once the profile is created, select it, and then click "Start Firefox"
Testing
- We are looking for issues with video playback, including but not limited to
- choppy video or dropped frames
- visible artifacts in the video
- broken sound
- hangs or visibly slow performance
- visible glitches in the UI outside of the video
- crashes (be sure to submit the crash report)
- If you encounter an issue
- File a bug report
- Copy your about:support page to a plain text file and attach it to the bug report
- If you crashed, include a copy of the ID (retrievable from about:crashes) in the bug report
- Check if the issue reproduces, add that info to the bug report
- Check if the issue reproduces with hardware acceleration turned back on, add that info to the bug report
- Check if the issue reproduces with the latest Firefox release, add that info to the bug report
- Run this test twice, once on an older GPU driver and again on the latest GPU driver (submit a separate result for each)
- Start Firefox with a new profile (see above)
- Open the preferences view, switch to the Advanced pane, make sure "Use hardware acceleration when available" is unchecked, and restart Firefox
- Play this Youtube video and test different size/quality modes
- Play this Youtube 360° video and test dragging around the video in different size/quality modes
- Play this Vimeo video and test different size/quality modes
- Test watching an embedded video on Facebook, Duckduckgo, and Reddit
- Test watching a streaming video on Steam, and Twitch.tv
- Pick a News website at random and play some videos (use Alexa.com as a reference to find websites)
- Pick a Sports website at random and play some videos (use Alexa.com as a reference to find websites)
- Fill out this form to submit your test result.
Bugs
Bugs reported and tagged with betabreakers-fx46 appear automatically below
48 Total; 1 Open (2.08%); 46 Resolved (95.83%); 1 Verified (2.08%);
