Ubuntu
firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #217908
  2. Comment #34

Comment 34 for bug 217908

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ubuntu_demon (ubuntu-demon) wrote : Re: Images in Firefox are extremely pixeled when zoomed

I am also affected. I have an intel 945 graphics chipset. I have attached my lspci -nn.

This issue is known upstream :
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831

I discovered the upstream bug because it was listed between the known issues for Firefox RC2 in the Linux and Unix section as a problem with the nvidia driver :
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.0rc2/releasenotes/#issues

I found a comment which is potentially interesting :
from https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=411831#c101 :

[quote=Luke Hutchison ]
If anybody is wondering why this bug magically fixed itself in their distro
recently, it's because Ubuntu and Fedora have inverted the default behavior of
the XAANoOffscreenPixmaps option.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/182038/comments/111

In case you're trying to debug this, you may need one of the following options
to bring back the broken behavior:

        Option "XAANoOffscreenPixmaps" "false"
        Option "XAAOffscreenPixmaps" "true"

Seems like sweeping things under the rug to me :o)
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