453116 - desktop background images show aliasing artifacts

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Michael Peters]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de; rv:1.9.0.1) Gecko/2008070208 Firefox/3.0.1

when setting any webpage image that is smaller than the screen to fullscreen desktop background image, the new desktop background shows aliasing artifacts. This is in Firefox 3 only, the older versions did not produce these artifacts.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs which are in the Firefox General component, are
UNCO, have not been changed for 500 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10 or later, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the issue, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the status to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.

Comment 3

[Michael Peters]

Attachment: Here's an image that illustrates the aliasing effect

I added an image that illustrates what it looks like for me. Is it possible that I'm the only one who sees this? Maybe Firefox doesn't work well with my hardware?

Comment 4

[Roman]

I have verified that Firefox 7.0a1 simply downloads the image and tells Windows to use it. The aliasing is then caused by Windows itself.

Firefox could resize the image by itself, nicely, which IE probably does.