## Summary
UseNewMenu has been defaulted to Top in the app for over a year;
Playwright’s test default lagged behind. This PR aligns the test default
with reality and keeps legacy specs stable.
## Changes
- tests(e2e): default to 'Top' via fixture; specs that previously relied
on the old implicit default now explicitly set 'Comfy.UseNewMenu' to
'Disabled'.
- docs(browser-tests): remove outdated README note suggesting tests set
'Top' manually.
## Review Focus
- Intentional uses of 'Top' and 'Bottom' remain unchanged.
- Confirm ComfyPage default remains 'Top' (see
browser_tests/fixtures/ComfyPage.ts).
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## Summary
Replaced reactive (Vue-based) widget LOD with CSS visibility control.
Performance doesn't dramatically improve, but we avoid the mount/unmount
overhead during zoom/pan operations. This PR implements the visual
component of LOD—complex widgets that need lifecycle management will be
addressed separately.
### Problem & Solution
Problem: we want LOD to improve rendering performance and visual
feedback but discovered using reactivity in the current setup for it
meant mounting/unmounting caused worse lag than the performance it aimed
to fix. Switching to render all the details all the time but using css
visibility proved to be the best solution. However, it doesn't improve
rendering performance by much because the GPU texture size is the
bottleneck (from TransformPane.vue CSS transforms) and not
rasterization.
Solution: Keep all nodes/widgets mounted, use CSS visibility: hidden for
LOD. Trade memory for performance stability during zoom/pan/drag
operations.
### Technical Decision
We chose Performance > Memory:
- CSS transforms create a single GPU texture whose size depends on node
count, not widget complexity
- Mounting/unmounting hundreds of widgets during zoom = noticeable lag
from Vue VDOM diffing (since all components are mounted all the time
because of viewport culling challenge/trade off see
https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI_frontend/pull/5510.)
- CSS visibility changes = no reactivity overhead, smooth interactions
- Result: Similar performance, but without interaction stutters
This is the visual layer only. If we want a hook into the LOD state per
node / widget that would be the next follow up system to implement.
### Next Steps (maybe)
- Chunked (split up single Transform Pane transform layer) when
rendering 1000+ nodes (maybe)
- ~~Selective unmounting API for widgets that register as "expensive"~~
- ~~Client bound hydration system~~
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