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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #217908
  2. Comment #26

Comment 26 for bug 217908

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Alexander Behringer (alexander-behringer-deactivatedaccount) wrote : Re: Images in Firefox are extremely pixeled when zoomed

I think there are two separate problems with zoomed images:

The first thing is, that in firefox 2.x only the text size was increased (and all objects with related size) when "zooming" (e.g. with ctrl+"+"). In firefox 3 however the image size is increased as well. But its possible to disable zooming of images via the menu (View -> Zoom -> Zoom Text Only). Maybe the default of that option should be changed.

The other thing is, that zoomed images are apparently nearest-neighbor interpolated, which indeed does not look very nice.
However shrinked images (e.g. via ctrl+"-") look good.
So i guess (real) interpolation is only enabled for shrinked images. Maybe for performance reasons?