Firefox beta: problem with indexed PNGs?
Konstantin Svist
fry.kun at gmail.com
Fri Mar 14 00:36:29 UTC 2008
Joe Smith wrote:
> Is anyone running a Firefox 3 beta on F8? Could you check the image at
> this location: http://www.martnet.com/~jes/temp/biome_lab.png
>
> On my system, I get a normal-looking page load, but the image itself
> is completely blank. All I see is the page background.
>
> The image area is active on the page: right-click > Properties gives
> me the right info about the image.
>
> Other PNGs work fine; I think the difference is that this one is
> indexed, where the others that work are RGB. I haven't tested that
> thoroughly, but at least for the image I linked to above, it works
> fine if I save it from Gimp in RGB mode.
>
> Any ideas what the problem could be? How should I follow up?
>
> I'm using the binary tar from mozilla.org; does anyone have a Fedora
> build of the latest beta I could test?
>
> No errors on the console; running in -safe-mode doesn't help.
>
> According to ldd, it's using the system libpng:
>
> $ ldd /opt/firefox/firefox-bin
> ...
> libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x0086a000)
> ...
> $ rpm -q libpng
> libpng-1.2.22-1.fc8
>
> firefox-2.0.0.12-1.fc8 and konqueror using the same libraries work fine.
>
> TIA for any suggestions,
>
> <Joe
>
Works with Fx 3b4
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