287373 - PNG looks wrong, presumably a decoding error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 239701

(Core :: Graphics: ImageLib, defect)

Description

[Mark Carroll]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050210 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-6)
Build Identifier: Firefox 1.0.1

A user of Mac OS X 10.3.4, Firefox 1.0.1 tells me that
http://www.aetion.com/images/logo.png looks wrong to him in Firefox, although
that PNG looks fine with other Mac image viewers. I don't have a Mac, but it
also looks fine to me from Windows and Linux.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Start up Firefox 1.0.1 on Mac OS X 10.3.4. Take a look at
http://www.aetion.com/images/logo.png

To see how it should look, look at that PNG with something else.
Actual Results:  
The image looked "corrupted"

Expected Results:  
The software should have rendered the image just like other viewers of it do.

The bug was reported to me by Chris Ball, copied on this report. He is cjb at
mrao dot cam dot ac dot uk.

Comment 1

[Alexey Chernyak]

The user could have a corrupted image in browser cache.
Try Shift + Reload on the image.

If that doesn't fix it, please attach a screenshot of the rendering.

Comment 2

[L. H.]

Maybe bug 239701

Comment 3

[Mark Carroll]

Attachment: The requested screenshot of the rendering

Apparently, Shift-Reload doesn't solve the problem. I got the user to send me a
screenshot - as you can see, he sent one for http://www.aetion.com/jobs.html
which uses the same logo.png graphic. (He reports that the problem is the same
when he looks at just the png.)

I also asked him for the User Agent string for his browser. It's Mozilla/5.0
(Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050225
Firefox/1.0.1.

Comment 4

[L. H.]

Does the problem go away in a nightly build? Does it only occur with colors set
to thousands in system prefs?

Comment 5

[Chris Ball]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Does the problem go away in a nightly build? Does it only occur with colors set
> to thousands in system prefs?

Good catch -- it does indeed only occur with colours set to thousands.  I can't
test with the disk image of yesterday's nightly build, since it launches and
then disappears from my process list immediately, even when run with
-ProfileManager.  That'll have to be a separate bug.  :)

- Chris.

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

So what does "wrong" or "corrupted" mean here?  Is the image just being dithered
because of the limited color space?

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

This looks like one of our old QuickDraw bugs. The reporter should try a recent
nightly trunk build.

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Comment 9

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 239701 ***