Official Off-Topic Thread

[rabidbaboy]

You're lucky you look alright with a shaved head.

Apparently, I look like a rocket with my head shaved. 

[Opacus]

Wowaaaaa

[Panda]

Whoa.
What was the reason?  Or just because?

Doesn't look bad though.

[Conzeit]

On the Firefox3 Zoom blur.

Guys...hasnt it been a while since this was a problem? I think as a comunity we should try to get this fixed in unison. I just noticed that we all complained a while ago (I didnt) and the only answer was that we should ask that it got fixed....but I have no idea wether we actually did this.

go to

http://hendrix.mozilla.org/

as a subject put

Firefox3 Zoom blur.

give a brief personal explanation of exactly how this new unavoidable blur fucks you up....if all of pixelation does it maybe we can get it fixed?

[Dusty]

Can't someone create an addon that disables the blurring?

[Conzeit]

it doesnt seem so, whenever we complained about it the very people of support just told us to just go ahead and suggest they change the feature.

Tthe very zoom function that Firefox uses now has an embedded blur, and addons can utilize the function but not modify it.

EDIT:spelling

[Colonel Mustard]

You can't disable the blurring with an addon, because there's no alternative method of resizing images in the browser atm. The talk they had when implementing it was something like this: "Why would anyone not want smooth resizing?"

[Dusty]

Thing is, so many people have complained, even non-pixelartists. It's screwing up a lot of sites where they resize layout images and such. There were tons of blogs about it, lots of complaints... but they still haven't listened. A little disappointing, because I thought Mozilla were more receptive than that.

Well I sent in the feedback. I hope something comes of this.

[Conzeit]

it's annoying because it would be such an easy thing to fix.

in the page where everyone from pixelation was complaining
http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&comments_parentId=29934#threadId71332
 the common answer from the support guys was just instructions to disable the zoom on images. I think probably while not ideal this would be an ok alternative for website layouts, becaue not many people except for pixelartists actually want pixelly zooms

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=664257&st=0&sk=t&sd=a
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=752735&p=4075495
 here are 2 other related topics...which are apparently still being ignored

[ptoing]

protip: don't use firefox, use some other browser, like opera.