How do I have them display in the Tab Bar, etc.?

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Dorian: Please fix it.

I'm curious, what do you mean by True Color icon?

I mean, from my point of view, you could be mixing the idea of True Color icon with True Color+Alpha (alpha as the transparent background).

K-meleon already display icons in True Color, but not True Color+Alpha (black background instead transparent background).

For example, from the red lines to the left, the original icon of this site; to the right, how is the favicon displayed at 16x16 in the urlbar and tabs. The background isn't shown transparent.


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If it is this what you are meaning, maybe you could request it in K-meleon 74 Release Candidate installer thread.

You can use this image as an example for Dorian.

EDIT: could be that there isn't a library for icons, because the bmp default icon for bookmarks/urls is displayed with the background transparent.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2014 04:41PM by JohnHell.

Try viewing http://www.neogaf.com in IE and in K-Meleon 74 RC to see what I mean.

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Try viewing http://www.neogaf.com in IE and in K-Meleon 74 RC to see what I mean.

I can't

Windows 2000 --> IE 6 (quite buggy favicon support)

But what I could see, is the same, except background.

Any other one to test it?

Any screenshot?

Sorry Zero3k

Works fine for me.

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Works fine for me.

Oh, ok, with 32 bit depth in XP the background is transparent

On 2000 no. Who cares xD

And I guess the True Color works too at 32 bit depth.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/13/2014 06:50PM by JohnHell.

Here's a screenshot of the issue I'm having with that site's favicon:

http://snag.gy/lcTJU.jpg

Definitely I'm not having that issue, nor virtual or physical XP.




Yours is as if the icon were a bad optimized 256 colors icon or less, or a bad gif :-S



You were in 7 right?

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Definitely I'm not having that issue, nor virtual or physical XP.




Yours is as if the icon were a bad optimized 256 colors icon or less, or a bad gif :-S



You were in 7 right?

Yes, I'm on Windows 7 SP1.

Tested in a virtual machine, as I don't have 7 in physical installation, and it is the same a full color icon :-?

I have no clue what could be happening to you :-?

The image is read using gecko code. Maybe it's a problem with hardware acceleration.

The only problem from kmeleon could be the resizing, but there is no resizing here since the icon is already in the correct size.

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The image is read using gecko code. Maybe it's a problem with hardware acceleration.

The only problem from kmeleon could be the resizing, but there is no resizing here since the icon is already in the correct size.

I have hardware accleration disabled via its about:config.

So, is there really no way to fix it?

EDIT: Going directly to the favicon.ico that NeoGAF uses makes the icon in the tab of the icon's url look more like how it should compared to the same icon shown when a tab has loaded a page on that site.

EDIT2: I wrote a forum post about the issue on its site. Hopefully its fixable on their end.

EDIT3: Here's a screenshot of the issue:





Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2014 05:22PM by Zero3K.

But it's not their fault.

Look, this is the icon in a filmstrip format extracted with GifMovieGear (icon creator and animator program that I use "a little"):



And I won't make more detail about it, but each icon in the ICL (icon library) is in 24 bit format (even using less than 256 color each) plus alpha.

If us (we, only Dorian and me had replied) haven't problems after several tests, I think could be a problem in your system. Not even in K-meleon.

Beyond the Dorian question, I'll ask, do you have an integrated graphic card, or embedded graphics chip?, do you have the latest drivers? I know, by my own experience, that Windows 7, at least a couple of years back, couldn't deal correctly with these kind of graphics adapters and drivers. In particular with Nvidia embedded graphics and CPU+GPU embedded ones as AMD does a lot.

Note: all edits to this post were words corrections



Edited 3 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2014 06:52PM by JohnHell.

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But it's not their fault.

Look, this is the icon in a filmstrip format extracted with GifMovieGear (icon creator and animator program that I use "a little"):



And I won't make more detail about it, but each icon in the ICL (icon library) is in 24 bit format (even using less than 256 color each) plus alpha.

If us (we, only Dorian and me had replied) haven't problems after several tests, I think could be a problem in your system. Not even in K-meleon.

Beyond the Dorian question, I'll ask, do you have an integrated graphic card, or embedded graphics chip?, do you have the latest drivers? I know, by my own experience, that Windows 7, at least a couple of years back, couldn't deal correctly with these kind of graphics adapters and drivers. In particular with Nvidia embedded graphics and CPU+GPU embedded ones as AMD does a lot.

Note: all edits to this post were words corrections

I use a NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT as my graphics card with the latest drivers installed.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2014 09:27PM by Zero3K.

Deleting the IconCache.dat in my profile's directory fixed this issue.

EDIT: There is one more issue involving a favicon of another site. The issue is that the favicon on http://yugioh.wikia.com/ isn't being shown correctly in K-Meleon.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/19/2014 08:33PM by Zero3K.

This time is a resizing issue and i'll fix this (probably not on w2k though).
But looking at the image I get from gecko, it also looks darker than what it should be.

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probably not on w2k though

Don't worry, I know I'm "living in the edge" ;P I don't expect so much

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Deleting the IconCache.dat in my profile's directory fixed this issue.

EDIT: There is one more issue involving a favicon of another site. The issue is that the favicon on http://yugioh.wikia.com/ isn't being shown correctly in K-Meleon.

The problem occurred again. Maybe its favicon is getting corrupted somehow.

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Deleting the IconCache.dat in my profile's directory fixed this issue.

EDIT: There is one more issue involving a favicon of another site. The issue is that the favicon on http://yugioh.wikia.com/ isn't being shown correctly in K-Meleon.

The problem occurred again. Maybe its favicon is getting corrupted somehow.

Is there any way to prevent it from happening?

Even at versions as old as 1.x there were, not only corruptions but crashes, so is luck if only gets corrupted. Just disable favicons (edit: favicon caching, I mean).

Only if you are used to browse bookmarks by icon should be a problem



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/31/2014 06:20PM by JohnHell.

Since MFC/Visual Studio is writing the cache, even if I could reproduce the bug it would be hard to find the cause. In the case I see this myself, i'll try to look at it.

Got the bug, for the same icon. I saw it because it was displayed for another website. So I got both bug at the same time. I've found reference of a similar bug in microsoft forums (color degrading after multiple save/load), but it looks like it was never fixed.

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I've found reference of a similar bug in microsoft forums (color degrading after multiple save/load), but it looks like it was never fixed.

Can You use the Firefox technology together with the K-Meleon Mozilla bookmarks plugin?

Mozilla devs must have fixed the problem for their apps' favicons?

Maybe store the icons in a cache or a sqlite data base and reference them?

That should avoid the multiple save/load operations which degrade the colors.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/15/2014 03:23PM by guenter.

Dorian: Any news regarding the fixing of this issue?