269624 - Firefox icon on Windows ME without anti-aliasing has jagged edges on dark background

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Rahul Narain]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win 9x 4.90; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

On Windows ME, which doesn't support alpha-channel transparency on icons, the
Firefox icon looks, um, bad. It looks like it was anti-aliased on a light
background, so the edges are jagged when it's put on a dark background. Maybe
there should be a separate icon without anti-aliasing, optimized for older
versions of Windows?

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Rahul Narain]

Attachment: Screenshot of Firefox icon on white and black backgrounds

Note the white edge on the fox's left shoulder. Also, the top of the globe
looks jaggier on black.
The main-window.ico file circulating the web as a solution to bug 171349
doesn't have this problem.

Comment 2

[Rahul Narain]

Attachment: Third-party main-window.ico

The aforementioned main-window.ico file (from
http://forum.gladiator-antivirus.com/index.php?showtopic=11909&st=0).
Was probably extracted from the Firefox executable by a third party.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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