Firefox 3 and bilinear filtering

[artibatirae]

Well, it's all dandy and stuff, but... is it possible to turn it off, if only temporary? (^_^);

[Calum Veteran]

What is bilinear filtering in Firefox?

[artibatirae]

It filters images when they're scaled up, smoothing them out.

[Calum Veteran]

Ahhh, I see. Thank you.

I can't think of anything to suggest other than there may be an extension out there which can do this for you? Have you searched the Firefox Add-ons website? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

If there aren't any extensions for it yet, there may be one or two developed after the Firefox 3 final is released :)

EDIT: Unless anyone knows any 'about:config' options which allow you to disable it?

Edited May 15, 2008 by cJr.

[artibatirae]

No mod for it. Was hoping there would be something in about:config, but can't find anything specific about it.

[Calum Veteran]

I just edited my post saying unless anyone knows any 'about:config' options to disable it, before I saw yours! :p lol.

I've searched a bit for extensions and about:config options, but I can't find anythin anywhere. :/ Sorry.

[artibatirae]

Heh! Still, kind of a shame. Some stuff just doesn't filter well.

[The_Decryptor Veteran]

Yeah, there isn't an option for it, it just checks to see if the scale isn't 1.0

Personally, I'd like to see them adopt the IE CSS rule for it, -ms-interpolation or something.