If you are using Firefox, version 23, I would recommend you update to the current version 25. You can check your version by choosing About Firefox under Tools in the main menu. This will show you what version you are using and allow you to check for updates, if you want.
Firefox 23 wasn't properly rendering some of the images in my posts. Basically, any image I drag-scaled in WordPress. It was fine with images at 100%. Posts with scaled images, which looked exactly as I intended in earlier versions of Firefox, were -- as of version 23 -- decorated with horizontal slivers in place of the properly-sized images, as if they were rolled-up window shades. Sucked to be my blog, let me tell you. The other problem was that I set Firefox to completely manual update a while ago, but had forgotten to check for updates.
The problem seems to have been that Firefox 23 lost proper support for "responsive images," as this post explains. But, when I first saw what was happening, I didn't immediately think it was Firefox; WordPress has had it's own problems with the image scaling feature from time-to-time. First I came up with a workaround fix. I found that applying a preset scaling percentage before drag-scaling fixed the problem. Fine for new posts, but this meant I had hundreds of posts inexplicably decorated with multi-coloured toothpicks instead of interesting images.
Chrome never had a problem. I know older versions of Internet Explorer had a problem like this, whereas older versions of Firefox didn't. Updating to Firefox 25 fixed the problem.
Firefox 23 wasn't properly rendering some of the images in my posts. Basically, any image I drag-scaled in WordPress. It was fine with images at 100%. Posts with scaled images, which looked exactly as I intended in earlier versions of Firefox, were -- as of version 23 -- decorated with horizontal slivers in place of the properly-sized images, as if they were rolled-up window shades. Sucked to be my blog, let me tell you. The other problem was that I set Firefox to completely manual update a while ago, but had forgotten to check for updates.
The problem seems to have been that Firefox 23 lost proper support for "responsive images," as this post explains. But, when I first saw what was happening, I didn't immediately think it was Firefox; WordPress has had it's own problems with the image scaling feature from time-to-time. First I came up with a workaround fix. I found that applying a preset scaling percentage before drag-scaling fixed the problem. Fine for new posts, but this meant I had hundreds of posts inexplicably decorated with multi-coloured toothpicks instead of interesting images.
Chrome never had a problem. I know older versions of Internet Explorer had a problem like this, whereas older versions of Firefox didn't. Updating to Firefox 25 fixed the problem.
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Thanks for this. And yeah the scaling issue is something I noticed too. I keep Iceweasel (Firefox) as current as I can and it's not too difficult - there's usually no more than a day between a Firefox release and its rebranding by the Debian people.
Now if only Mozilla's devs could work a miracle and fix Firefox's greedy memory hog behaviour. I've been noticing that more lately because I've been watching more embedded video. I went back to the UbuWeb film and video page for the first time in ages and I'm like a pig in slop... problem is though that the fan on my Inspiron is roaring its little head off and memory use balloons to nearly half a Gb in no time.
I take it Iceweasel is Debian's name for Firefox. I've used the Mozilla version called Seamonkey which comes with PuppyLinux -- thanks for all the browsers Marc! And thanks to xtian for another cool thing. UbuWeb is a great resource!
UbuWeb is a wonderful thing. A friend on LiveJournal put me onto it some time back (this is him: http://zuma.vip.warped.com/ ) and seriously - browsing the site is like drinking a firehose full of brilliance through a straw.
And yes - the Debian people balked at Mozilla's exclusive brand (of course) so on a Debian platform all of those applications are rebranded. Thunderbird for example is called "Icedove". Seamonkey is "Iceape" IIRC.
So... if you absolutely must install a little Windows program you use "icewine?"
HAHAHA :D
Fortunately in my case the need will never arise