862241 - Magnifying glass does not appear for images that can be zoomed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Peter]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130415 Firefox/23.0
Build ID: 20130415030812

Steps to reproduce:

Build 23.0a1: Hovered my cursor over an image that was too big for the browser to display at full resolution.


Actual results:

The cursor did not change from being a mouse.


Expected results:

The cursor should have changed from a mouse to being a magnifying glass.

Comment 1

[Loic]

WFM with the latest Nightly.

Could you be sure you're using the latest nightly and try with a new profile:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

Comment 2

[Loic]

For the record, likely a dupe of bug 862117.

Comment 3

[Samvedana (:Samvedana)]

 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20130612 Firefox/23.0
Build ID: 20130612004016

I tried to reproduce this bug on Windows 7 for latest aurora build (firefox-23.0a2.en-US.win32.installer.exe).
It works good. For me, cursor changed from a mouse to magnifying glass.

Comment 4

[sean97]

It appears that the cursor does not change to a + or - magnifying glass if the image is in a frame set.  IMO this is related to bug 862117.
I just upgraded to FF 22.0. It used to work "correctly" on 18.0.2 (and later?) with images in a frame set. Now the glass does not appear, but clicking the image will make it magnify or not. Restarting FF with Add-ons disabled does not fix this behavior.
These links should illustrate the problem ...
http://www.findingbrokeback.com/Entering_Wyoming/The_Tetons_kXL.jpg
The + - glass should appear on mouse over.
To see the same image in a frame set go to
http://www.findingbrokeback.com/Entering_Wyoming/_Entering_Wyoming_Frame.html
Click "The Tetons" in the left window, and in the right window, click through the middle thumbnail in the last row of thumbnails to the panorama (The_Tetons_kXL.jpg). The glass does not appear, but clicking the image will make it magnify or not.
This bug was reported on
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2725283&sid=6022de38248ea11f70921e9e6144716b
and has been duplicated there.  As noted the + - glass is an important visual clue that the image is larger than the window it's displayed in.  If no glass then every image in a frame set has to be clicked through to see if it's larger than the window.

Comment 5

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

I think this is wontfix, even if a regression. It's up to sites to control what they want to display, which is why we give top-level images special styling (centered, dark background) but not images in iframes. Ditto for zoom features.

Comment 6

[sean97]

If the argument is "It's up to sites to control what they want to display," then it seems quite arbitrary to impose "top-level images special styling" and "zoom features" on those same sites. As Jared writes in 862117, zooming in framed images has been supported "since at least 2006."  862117 is apparently targeted to be fixed in FF 23, which presumably fixes this also.  IMO, there needs be a dependable consistency in the way sites (and visitors) can expect FF to display content.  To me, it makes no sense to display images differently when in iframes or not, and for me, I would go so far as to say, that includes "centered, dark background."

Comment 7

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

Marking as incomplete. It is unclear if the original reporter was hitting bug 862117, though it is very likely. If anything else is still an issue, then a separate bug should be raised on just that issue so we can discuss it by itself.