Satellite view has checkerboard overlay on free web version.
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As title. It's been like this for a long time. Using Firefox 145.0.2 in Windows 10.
If I subscribed to the Premium version, would this change?
I'm not interested in the 'App', only the website version. -
@edgi1
Please could you show a screenshot of the Satellite layer on your device. -
@idefix37 thanks for your reply.
This is a typical view - the checkerboard is more obvious in the daylight section, but it's always there.
It's the same with Radar on or off.
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@EdGi1
This could be linked to a webGL error.
Could you check the error console at bottom of the menu.
See a related post -
@idefix37
'No errors' reported in the Windy console.
WebGL is enabled and running in Firefox, as far as I can tell. -
@EdGi1
OK, so developers should look at your issue. -
@idefix37 Great.
In case it helps, it's been this way for several months - since before the timebar was updated.
It did work perfectly well previously, but I don't remember when it changed, or whether it was related to a Windy update or a Firefox or driver update.
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@EdGi1 Hi, this issue is likely related to how your browser decodes input images (it is not a WebGL error). In case it applies some modifications to the image (like color space modification), it can result in the "checkerboard" artifacts.
Could you try another browser (like Google Chrome)? Also, updating the browser could resolve the problem.
Or you can try the following approach related to color profiles in Firefox:
https://community.windy.com/post/218840 -
@schilpat
Thanks for your replies.I changed the Firefox mysterious "gfx.color_management.mode" from 2 back to 1 (which is the default), and the checkerboard has now disappeared.
Sadly, color management now doesn't work correctly in the browser, which it appeared to do on setting '2'.So I suppose this is a solution for viewing Windy, but it would be nice if it also worked with the "gfx.color_management.mode" set to 2.
Edit: Somehow this "gfx.color_management.mode" setting appears to be back at '2', and the checkerboard has not returned, so it's possible some legacy setting was messing things up.
As an aside, there is a lot of info about Firefox color management online, and while it's possible to make it behave differently, it never seems to work correctly.
