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Why transparent images in Firefox have white background? It's not practical.

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Labeliteteta
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Default in Firefox transparent images have white background. When image have white elements there's an invisible.

Default in Firefox transparent images have white background. When image have white elements there's an invisible.

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philipp
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hello Labeliteteta, you can use the following addon as a workaround: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/transparent-standalone-imag/

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Thanks, but why it is don't default?

philipp
philipp
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it has been the default for a short time but apparently it was reverted in firefox 15, because there was lots of user feedback that the rendering of transparent images on dark background would be troublesome (though i don't know anything about the details of this and the cases where such issues would arise, i'm merely referencing this blog entry by a mozilla dev).

cor-el
cor-el
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You have a problem with images that have white details and do not display well on a light (white) background.

Other images may have dark details (e.g. line drawings) that do not display well on a dark background, so there is always a trade off. It would be good if you could right-click such a standalone image and set a specific background color if the default isn't working.

  • bug 754133 - Set background of standalone images (the image itself, not the whole page) to white

(please do not comment in bug reports)

It is added by this stylesheet:

  • chrome://global/skin/TopLevelImageDocument.css
  • resource://gre/res/TopLevelImageDocument.css