First post -- Firefox image display issues

[Gil Weber]

On Thu, 16 May 2024 03:43:12 +0200
Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hi Gil,
> the links to the screenshots are useless, so the other way round, what
> does the squirrel look like on your browsers?
> 
> 
> 
> https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1715590876582-18e4844864a6?q=80&w=1974&auto=format&fit=crop&ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D
> 
> Here it's always the same on
> 
> waterfox-bin G6.0.13-1
> firefox 126.0-1
> google-chrome 124.0.6367.207-1
> 
> To my taste it's way to dark.
> 
> The downloaded photo is named photo-1715590876582-18e4844864a6.avif .
> 
> GIMP opens with a "Convert to RGB Working Space?" window and Krita
> opens without asking to convert the image.
> 
> 
> 
> The image has an embedded color profile "sRGB IEC61966-2.1".
> 
> Here the "converted" photo does look the same. It's still way to dark
> for my taste.
> 
> • rocketmouse at archlinux ~/Desktop 
> $ exiftool photo-1715590876582-18e4844864a6.avif | grep Handler\ D
> Handler Description             : libavif
> 
> • rocketmouse at archlinux ~/Desktop 
> $ pacman -Qi libavif
> Name            : libavif
> Version         : 1.0.4-3
> Description     : Library for encoding and decoding .avif files
> Architecture    : x86_64
> URL             : https://github.com/AOMediaCodec/libavif
> Licenses        : LicenseRef-libavif
> Groups          : None
> Provides        : None
> Depends On      : glibc  aom  dav1d  librav1e.so=0.7-64  svt-av1
> libpng  libjpeg  libyuv  libwebp Optional Deps   : None
> Required By     : chafa  darktable  gd  sdl2_image  webkit2gtk
> webkit2gtk-4.1  webkit2gtk-5.0 Optional For    : gdk-pixbuf2
> kimageformats5 Conflicts With  : None
> Replaces        : None
> Installed Size  : 400.09 KiB
> Packager        : Antonio Rojas <arojas at archlinux.org>
> Build Date      : Thu 25 Apr 2024 23:27:07 CEST
> Install Date    : Fri 26 Apr 2024 09:44:53 CEST
> Install Reason  : Installed as a dependency for another package
> Install Script  : No
> Validated By    : Signature
> 
> *?*
> Ralf
> 

Ralf, I do appreciate the time you're putting into this. Do you get any
sleep?  :o)

OK, in Chrome I see a nice, fat squirrel. Fluffy tail, whiskers, two
eyes, brighter on squirrel's left side but still light enough to
discern front leg and body on squirrel's right side.

I agree that even in Chrome the picture is dark. But it's still nice to
my taste in Chrome and I give the photographer credit for creative use
of lighting.

On Firefox I see only the squirrel's left eye, half of its nose, some
whiskers, a left front paw, and that's it. Squirrel's entire right side
is black, no evidence of a tail, no evidence of whatever it is that the
squirrel may be standing on.

Gil