Firefox pixmap cache to X11 bug reported to bugzilla

[Gavin McCullagh]

Hi,

On Thu, 06 Sep 2007, Jim Kronebusch wrote:

> I was notified that reporting this bug to launchpad was most likely not an appropriate
> place since a fix would need to come from farther upstream than Ubuntu.  So I posted the
> following bug to bugzilla which is the standard bug reporting facility used by Mozilla:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395260

In case anyone's interested, there was some interesting news on this bug
today.  Francis Robichaud has written a patch for firefox which apparently
causes it to resize an image to its HTML dictated size if the HTML size is
smaller than the image.  Of course this resize is done before passing the
image to the X server.

An example which this patch should fix (assuming it works!), is our
traditional crash a thin client page:

	http://www.carteretcountyschools.org/bse/TeacherWebs/pake/Art%20Show/Art%20Show.htm
	http://www.carteretcountyschools.org/bms/teacherwebs/sdavenport/artgallery6.htm

Gavin