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From: Phil Stovell on 3 Dec 2009 04:44
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:13:55 +0000, Dave Farrance wrote:

> The lack of anti-aliasing on the Firefox Linux 3.5.5 zoom looks as bad
> with photographs as with line-drawings. Since recent flat-panel monitors
> tend to have a fine pixel-pitch, web images often benefit from zooming,
> but not if it looks like this:
>
> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/planes-ff-cmp.jpg
>
> So does anybody know if there's some hidden option to enable
> anti-aliasing, or if there's any other fix for this?

Looks rubbish. It's a known bug:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/217908
From: Dave Farrance on 3 Dec 2009 05:11
Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> wrote:

>On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:13:55 +0000, Dave Farrance wrote:
>
>> The lack of anti-aliasing on the Firefox Linux 3.5.5 zoom looks as bad
>> with photographs as with line-drawings. Since recent flat-panel monitors
>> tend to have a fine pixel-pitch, web images often benefit from zooming,
>> but not if it looks like this:
>>
>> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/planes-ff-cmp.jpg
>
>Looks rubbish. It's a known bug:
>
>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/217908

Thanks. It's difficult to make out from all that and its links to
bugzilla.mozilla.org and bugs.freedesktop.org quite who should fix this
and if anybody even cares 20 months later. This bug is horrible but it
looks like progress has gone quiet. Has anybody anywhere issued a build
of Firefox that somehow fixes or works around this?

--
Dave Farrance

From: despen on 3 Dec 2009 09:27
Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> writes:

> Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:13:55 +0000, Dave Farrance wrote:
>>
>>> The lack of anti-aliasing on the Firefox Linux 3.5.5 zoom looks as bad
>>> with photographs as with line-drawings. Since recent flat-panel monitors
>>> tend to have a fine pixel-pitch, web images often benefit from zooming,
>>> but not if it looks like this:
>>>
>>> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/planes-ff-cmp.jpg
>>
>>Looks rubbish. It's a known bug:
>>
>>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/217908
>
> Thanks. It's difficult to make out from all that and its links to
> bugzilla.mozilla.org and bugs.freedesktop.org quite who should fix this
> and if anybody even cares 20 months later. This bug is horrible but it
> looks like progress has gone quiet. Has anybody anywhere issued a build
> of Firefox that somehow fixes or works around this?

I think you must have missed something at Mozilla bug central.
Latest comments on the problem were Nov 30, 2009.

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422179
From: Jon Solberg on 3 Dec 2009 11:51
["Followup-To:"-huvud satt till alt.os.linux.mandriva.]
On 2009-12-03, Aragorn <aragorn(a)chatfactory.invalid> wrote:

> And of course, there were always lynx and links too for "character
> mode"-building browsing. ;-)
^^^^^^^^

I fixed that typo for you.

--
Jon Solberg (remove "nospam." from email address).
From: Dave Farrance on 3 Dec 2009 12:00
despen(a)verizon.net wrote:

>Dave Farrance <DaveFarrance(a)OMiTTHiSyahooANDTHiS.co.uk> writes:
>
>> Phil Stovell <phil(a)stovell.nospam.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>>On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:13:55 +0000, Dave Farrance wrote:
>>>
>>>> The lack of anti-aliasing on the Firefox Linux 3.5.5 zoom looks as bad
>>>> with photographs as with line-drawings. Since recent flat-panel monitors
>>>> tend to have a fine pixel-pitch, web images often benefit from zooming,
>>>> but not if it looks like this:
>>>>
>>>> http://anvil.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/images/planes-ff-cmp.jpg
>>>
>>>Looks rubbish. It's a known bug:
>>>
>>>https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/217908
>>
>> Thanks. It's difficult to make out from all that and its links to
>> bugzilla.mozilla.org and bugs.freedesktop.org quite who should fix this
>> and if anybody even cares 20 months later. This bug is horrible but it
>> looks like progress has gone quiet. Has anybody anywhere issued a build
>> of Firefox that somehow fixes or works around this?
>
>I think you must have missed something at Mozilla bug central.
>Latest comments on the problem were Nov 30, 2009.
>
>https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=422179

Somebody, not apparently a developer saying: please finally fix this. The
comments over the previous months being an idea or two floated but nothing
that raises my hopes. I guess I'd have to look at the developer mailing
list to see if anybody is seriously thinking of doing something. I've
added another "please fix this", which isn't the done thing on bugzillas,
but it's worth getting my account kicked off if somebody actually does
something.

--
Dave Farrance
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