Platform/GFX

This is a page of useful information about and for the Firefox Graphics team. For an overview of graphics inside of Gecko look here

If you're interested in contributing, check out this page.

Roadmaps and Goals

Roadmaps

View our general Roadmap for 2020

View the WebRender-specific roadmap

Quarterly Goals

View the Graphics Team Q2 Goals

• WebRender Q1 Priorities

• WebRender Q2 Priorities

Meeting Notes

• Software WebRender
• WR Perf
• WR Future
• Texture/buffer upload brainstorming

Bug Triage Information

Triage Guide

Triage Dashboard

Incoming bugs triage Schedule

Technical Overviews

• Design documents for the Mozilla graphics architecture
• Rendering Overview from HTML to GPU

Tools & Workflows

Getting Started

• Windows-based development tips and step-by-step set up guide;

WebRender

• Debugging WebRender including an example debugging workflow;
• Tile cache logger for multi-frame cache analysis;

Useful Information

• Jargon
• QA Graphics Inventory: which hardware do we have and where is it
• WebGL Best Practices
• Driver Issues in WebRender

Components

• Quantum Render
  • Where have we shipped WebRender? https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/GFX/WebRender_Where
• Telemetry
• Async Panning and Zooming
• Moz2D
• WebGPU

Archive

We have a lot of older pages that are no longer updated. They've been moved here.