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Blurry image rendering in Chromium browsers
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<blockquote data-quote="SeriousHoax" data-source="post: 913107" data-attributes="member: 78686"><p>All Chromium browsers have a problem with image rendering. The images are blurry, less detailed and low quality compared to the crisp and sharp images on Firefox.</p><p>I don't know if it happens for 100% of the users but personally I have asked 5 people with 5 different PC configuration to check this out for me and they have confirmed this including [USER=26718]@silversurfer[/USER] whom I asked few months ago. I noticed this for the first time almost 3 years ago but being a Firefox user I didn't bother and it was one more reason for me to stick to it. But I did show this to two of my Chrome user friends and after that they both installed Firefox for browsing Flickr only.</p><p>There are also many complaints online. Like these:</p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63502778/blurry-downscaled-images-in-the-chrome-84" target="_blank">Blurry downscaled images in the Chrome 84</a></p><p><a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37906602/blurry-downscaled-images-in-chrome" target="_blank">Blurry downscaled images in Chrome</a></p><p><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-little-blurry-in-chrome/" target="_blank">Images little Blurry in Chrome</a></p><p>And of course here's a 5 years old bug on Chromium bugs which somehow hasn't been fixed yet:</p><p><a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=562162" target="_blank">Issue 562162: Background images are blurred when scaled down since 46</a></p><p></p><p>If you've always used a Chromium browser you may not know what I'm talking about so in order to check it by yourself you'll have to install Firefox and compare to see what I'm talking about.</p><p>For a basic test, look no further than my own DP here on MalwareTips. It's quite blurry on Chromium browsers but sharp and clear on Firefox. It's also clearly noticeable on my system in [USER=52096]@Gandalf_The_Grey[/USER]'s current DP.</p><p>For a larger image you may take a look at this picture:</p><p><a href="https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/reviews/2020-nissan-frontier-review/" target="_blank">2020 Nissan Frontier review: Past meets future</a></p><p>Open this in a Chromium browser & Firefox and compare the details of the car as well as the background. No explanation is needed I think.</p><p>For average users this may not be a big deal but a serious issue for photographers around the world.</p><p>It needs to be fixed soon. The number 1 browser engine of the world rendering blurry images makes no sense.</p><p>YouTube video also plays better on Firefox with 0 frame drops while frame dropping is common in Chromium.</p><p>Btw, both problem seems to go away if you disable hardware acceleration but that would put more pressure on the CPU so not an acceptable solution.</p><p>Among the links posted above there's a suggested solution which kind of works pretty well to minimize the image rendering problem.</p><p>This CSS needs to be loaded by the browser in every webpage.</p><p></p><p>This is not an ideal solution because it's often over sharpening images on my system. Edges don't look smooth and the emoji icons here on MT also looks bad. So, it's not comparable to Firefox but a huge improvement over the default rendering.</p><p>I don't know how to make the browser load this CSS on every page so I'm using this extension to do so,</p><p><a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne" target="_blank">Stylus</a></p><p>Let us know if you're also seeing this image rendering variance on Chromium vs Firefox and I would really appreciate if you also send feedback to the Microsoft Edge and Brave team.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SeriousHoax, post: 913107, member: 78686"] All Chromium browsers have a problem with image rendering. The images are blurry, less detailed and low quality compared to the crisp and sharp images on Firefox. I don't know if it happens for 100% of the users but personally I have asked 5 people with 5 different PC configuration to check this out for me and they have confirmed this including [USER=26718]@silversurfer[/USER] whom I asked few months ago. I noticed this for the first time almost 3 years ago but being a Firefox user I didn't bother and it was one more reason for me to stick to it. But I did show this to two of my Chrome user friends and after that they both installed Firefox for browsing Flickr only. There are also many complaints online. Like these: [URL='https://stackoverflow.com/questions/63502778/blurry-downscaled-images-in-the-chrome-84']Blurry downscaled images in the Chrome 84[/URL] [URL='https://stackoverflow.com/questions/37906602/blurry-downscaled-images-in-chrome']Blurry downscaled images in Chrome[/URL] [URL='https://wordpress.org/support/topic/images-little-blurry-in-chrome/']Images little Blurry in Chrome[/URL] And of course here's a 5 years old bug on Chromium bugs which somehow hasn't been fixed yet: [URL='https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=562162']Issue 562162: Background images are blurred when scaled down since 46[/URL] If you've always used a Chromium browser you may not know what I'm talking about so in order to check it by yourself you'll have to install Firefox and compare to see what I'm talking about. For a basic test, look no further than my own DP here on MalwareTips. It's quite blurry on Chromium browsers but sharp and clear on Firefox. It's also clearly noticeable on my system in [USER=52096]@Gandalf_The_Grey[/USER]'s current DP. For a larger image you may take a look at this picture: [URL='https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/reviews/2020-nissan-frontier-review/']2020 Nissan Frontier review: Past meets future[/URL] Open this in a Chromium browser & Firefox and compare the details of the car as well as the background. No explanation is needed I think. For average users this may not be a big deal but a serious issue for photographers around the world. It needs to be fixed soon. The number 1 browser engine of the world rendering blurry images makes no sense. YouTube video also plays better on Firefox with 0 frame drops while frame dropping is common in Chromium. Btw, both problem seems to go away if you disable hardware acceleration but that would put more pressure on the CPU so not an acceptable solution. Among the links posted above there's a suggested solution which kind of works pretty well to minimize the image rendering problem. This CSS needs to be loaded by the browser in every webpage. This is not an ideal solution because it's often over sharpening images on my system. Edges don't look smooth and the emoji icons here on MT also looks bad. So, it's not comparable to Firefox but a huge improvement over the default rendering. I don't know how to make the browser load this CSS on every page so I'm using this extension to do so, [URL='https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylus/clngdbkpkpeebahjckkjfobafhncgmne']Stylus[/URL] Let us know if you're also seeing this image rendering variance on Chromium vs Firefox and I would really appreciate if you also send feedback to the Microsoft Edge and Brave team. [/QUOTE]
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