Firefox and bad image zoom

Hi to all,
Compare these images:
Zoom with Firefox under Linux
Zoom with Google Chrome under Linux
Firefox under Windows
(image taken from: http://www.tomshw.it/cont/articolo/cons … 26/13.html )
as you can see:
* Firefox under Linux: image zoom is done without antialiasing
* Firefox under Windows: image zoom is done with antialiasing
* Chrome under Linux: image zoom is done with antialiasing
is there any way to fix this issue with Firefox under Linux?

Ramses de Norre wrote:Google reveals much info. Look at the firefox and ubuntu bug trackers, both have extensive discussions about the issue.
Hi,
I'm not sure if I get your meaning here.
I googled around, and I find mostly references to font problems - which is not the issue here - and the imagezoom.defaultGlobalZoom setting, which does not seem related to activating / deactivating antialising for images when zooming.
I have the same issues as trapanator. FF in arch64 does not apply antialising to the images when zooming, but opera does. Also FF in windows does. I took a look in the PKGBUILD, but did not find anything suggesting that the antialiasing is disabled at compile time - so it seems to be a configuration issue.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
Best regards,
Eduardo

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