On 2013/04/25 11:35, James Griffin wrote: > ................Wed 24.Apr'13 at 22:36:39 -0430, Andres Perera................ > > it's random and it happens in all sites (observed at least in facebook > > and youtube) > > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Ted Unangst <t...@tedunangst.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Apr 24, 2013 at 22:25, Ted Unangst wrote: > > >> Look at > > >> http://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/samsung-flo-640x215.jp > > >> g in firefox. The image is all mangled up, like a progressive jpeg > > >> that never got unprogressed. > > > > > > Was just retesting and noticed that maybe it displays ok sometimes? > > > Loading and refreshing the front page of arstechnica shows different > > > results. > > > > > > I don't think it's a web site bug because I see it elsewhere too. > > It's definitely not a website bug. I've observed this too, especially in > Facebook, but also in all sites I visit. It's intermittent though.
I saw a lot of problems like this in recent Firefox, but then I got fed up with the big X freezes with browser-rescaled images and so I disabled gfx.xrender.enabled (in about:config) and restarted; it seems to have fixed this image mangling problem too.