Images in Twitter embeds get blurry when zoomed in

(#3317) Bug Needs triage desktop embeds media

Observed behaviour

Image is blurry. This wasn't the case some time ago.

Reproduction steps

  1. Link a post with a high-resolution image from twitter (i.e. https://x.com/MikaPikaZo/status/1965632439839326643/photo/1)
  2. Click on the embed and then left-click again to zoom

Build information

Canary Desktop 2026.830.132530, Web 2026.829.224002, Windows 11 10.0.26200 (x64), Electron 42.10.0, Chrome 148.0.7778.280, Node 24.18.1, Locale en-GB

Platform

Windows

Evidence

First image is the client app. Second image is the canary website.

Details

Expected behaviour Image should be crystal clear, this is the case on the canary website, but not on the desktop app (even on my linux it seems to be the same).
  • image.png

    image.png

    1919×1079 | 3.5 MB

  • image.png

    image.png

    1918×1034 | 3.8 MB

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