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  1. Bug #249436
  2. Comment #23

Comment 23 for bug 249436

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ere (robert-erent) wrote : Re: [Bug 249436] Re: Firefox 3 displays JPEG with much colour banding compared to Firefox 2

Hi,

is there a quick way to force my PC running 10.04LTS to go to 16-bit mode?
I would carry it out when having more free time. (In 24-bit mode on probably
16-bit display the differences between Opera and current FF are not
relevant, if
existent at all.)

Sincerely
R.

Dňa 13.03.2011 15:04, Ralph Corderoy wrote / napísal(a):
> Well, it's two and a half years later, I've upgraded from 8.04 to 10.10,
> and Firefox 3 still has this JPEG display regression compared to Firefox
> 2 back then. The sample image I provided back then still displays
> terrible banding on this 16bpp display, as can be seen in the
> differences between ff[23].8899.png from that time.
>
> Package firefox 3.6.15+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1.
>
> Can someone set the Importance please? Not being able to view photos
> for judgement and selection is a real PITA. At least on 8.04 I could
> run up Firefox 2 but 10.10 (rightly) doesn't provide that any more so
> that workaround has gone.
>