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General => General Discussion => Topic started by: Zurnathus on August 19, 2008, 12:38:06 am

Title: fire fox browser question
Post by: Zurnathus on August 19, 2008, 12:38:06 am
this happen to anybody else using FF??
zoomed images are blurry...doesn't Happen with SeaMonkey or IE
i wonder if it has some kind of auto compressor
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: AdamAtomic on August 19, 2008, 12:41:18 am
known "bug" in ff3 since release, its not a compression thing, its a linear interpolation thing, no known "cure" or workaround yet
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: Zurnathus on August 19, 2008, 01:11:55 am
oh, thanks...i just started using FF, i preferred SeaMonkey, but i got fed up with it. has problems of its own
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: Colonel Mustard on August 19, 2008, 01:37:10 am
A "fix" for this was suggested during alpha stages of FF3, a suggestion to put in several modes of zooming instead of just using billinear scaling (or whatever it's called they're using now), the response was "Why would anyone want that?".
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: crab2selout.png on August 19, 2008, 02:04:54 am
It's why I'm using 2.0.0.16 until  the blurry is lost.

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A "fix" for this was suggested during alpha stages of FF3, a suggestion to put in several modes of zooming instead of just using billinear scaling (or whatever it's called they're using now), the response was "Why would anyone want that?".
...which sounds like never :(
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: Squiggly_P on September 01, 2008, 08:32:38 am
Damn, I posted this in the off-topic thread cause I didn't see this one.  There's sort of a fix for this a buddy of mine found:

There's an addon for Firefox called IEtab: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419
Install that and in it's options add this site and whatever other sites into it's list of pages.
This will make all of the listed sites open by default via IEtab, and the blurring issue does not happen.  it's basically opening the sites via IE's engine, but inside of Firefox.

Not a 'real' fix, but it's working for me right now.  Hopefully they'll give people the option to turn filtering off in the next update.
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: tocky on September 01, 2008, 01:52:34 pm
You can roll back to firefox 2, if need be.

You can currently still download it from mozilla here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html

You can install it over the top of a FF3 install. Might have some troubles, though I've seen it work, myself.
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: Squiggly_P on September 03, 2008, 07:44:43 pm
according to a buddy who is testing the new Google "Chrome" browser, that has the same issue as the new Firefox version.  It has the same filter and it affects pixel art in the same way.  He's looking for a option to turn it off, but so far has had no luck.  I didn't even want to download it myself...
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: HMC on September 03, 2008, 08:29:40 pm
I resolved to try using Opera for now, as it at least lets you disable interpolating.
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: Ai on September 04, 2008, 12:15:56 am
A "fix" for this was suggested during alpha stages of FF3, a suggestion to put in several modes of zooming instead of just using billinear scaling (or whatever it's called they're using now), the response was "Why would anyone want that?".
Yeah, it's not needed.. Doing the following should make everyone happy:

For image zoom <200%, do interpolation / decimation.
For image zoom >=200%, don't interpolate.

This is roughly what the latest version of GIMP does. It actually annoys me a little when I get to having say 150% zoom, but you guys'll only want multiples of 100% anyway.

I can confirm it seems to only happen on Windows. (ie. I'm using FF3.01 on Ubuntu Linux to post this, with no blur when zooming.)
Title: Re: fire fox browser question
Post by: Jiisuki on September 05, 2008, 05:07:26 pm
It sucks, the whole world is blurry for me. Damn bad eyesight :P
Gotta grab the IE Tab and see if it does the trick. I'm really tired of this, perhaps just skip FF3 and go back..