You’d think this would have to do with the monitor settings of my computer. However, Internet Explorer seems to have much better resolution than Netscape or Firefox. (As the title says, the images are grainy). Anyone else having this problem? Anyone have a solution?
If it’s just the images that are grainy, then I’d guess it’s to do with the ways the browsers resize them to fit in the window. In both browsers you can enlarge them to their original size, which should remove such problems. It’s possible that Firefox isn’t doing it as well as IE - the advantage is that you can go and rewrite that part of Firefox to make your own improvements, should you wish to 
If the problem is the one suggested by GorillaMan, then you can fix it by:
Tools > Options > Advanced > Browsing
Uncheck the box marked “Resize large images to fit in the browser window.”
(Firefox 1.0)
No, I tried to fix it with those suggestions but the images still look grainy (even with small images such as website background “tiles”).
Also, there seems to be some “false color” faults - very small red and blue dots mixed in with the image.
It sounds like they’re being dithered. This could happen if you’re running 16 or 256 color mode but that should screw up IE also. My only guess is that maybe you’re running through some kind of optimizing web cache or proxy (like NetZero’s HiSpeed) and it’s turned off for IE.
:smack: Thanks for your help folks. Yes the monitor settings were unintentionally changed because I had a hard disk crash quite recently. :smack:
Still, I will admit that IE looked better than the other 2 browsers. Maybe Bill Gates made “Explorer” optimized for Windows™ to foil those who stray from the Microsoft™ herd.
Thanks again and sorry.
When you have “256 colors available”, that’s 256 total colors for all aps, but no two aps can display the exact same color at the same time. So one ap (IE) gets the color it really wants, while the other has to get one that’s “close” to it. So if you’re looking at the same picture, side by side, in two different aps, all of the colors are going to be off in the second ap.
-lv
Thanks LV
That does explain it.