Why do IE and Firefox render the same image differently, how can I prevent it?

Answer 1

Is text rendering any different? Might be that you have zoomed the page in FF (or IE)?

Can try Ctrl-0 to reset zoom sizing (works in both), I have a logitech mouse with a free spinning wheel, so this happens to me quite a bit when I forget the scroll wheel is still spinning and hit the Ctrl key. Plenty other places where the zoom etc could be set.

Could also be something entirely different, but generally I find that IE and FF render images much the same.

Wouldn't call the box fubar based on that, more likely a software setting somewhere... but hey, it's nearly Christmas, and if you want an excuse for a new box, I won't tell anyone :)

Answer 2

I just created a composite image of screenshots of the Google image in IE, Firefox & Chrome and they're all in perfect register (top 2 images at 30% opacity).

I believe it has to be a custom zoom you've got set in one of your browsers. Check IE's zoom at the right of the status bar, for example.