123809 - Images frequently not displayed

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[S Bufton]

Images on many pages I open with Mozilla are not displayed.
"http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Browser" (this page) is an
example - I see the 'broken image' icon instead of the Mozilla banner at the top.

Comment 1

[Ed Grochowski]

What build are you running? This worksforme on 0.9.8 and Win2000

Comment 2

[Nathan Kidd]

I have similar behaviour using 0.9.8 on NT4 SP6.  Though that example url
works for me, many other sites/pages have problems. In particular the main story
picture from http://www.cnn.com consistently is not displayed.  I have to right
click the image and say "View Image" if I want to see it.

Comment 3

[S Bufton]

I'm on 0.9.8, Win 2000. It seems to be a rather intermittent bug - it will work
fine for several days, then break for a while, then return to working. I
regularly see the behaviour on our intranet homepage. Checking in other browsers
when the problem occurs in Mozilla reveals no problems: Netscape 4.78 & IE 5.0
work fine, so it doesn't seem to be a problem with the server.

Comment 4

[Nathan Kidd]

Same behaviour in 0.9.9.

Comment 5

[Wayne Coulby]

This is still happening in 1.0 RC1 on Windows 2000 SP2. I restart Mozilla and
even restart Windows and the images still don't display. It may be related to
bug #123850, because I could see images, then I changed some things in
preferences (not related to images), and when I restart Mozilla, I had this problem.

Comment 6

[Wayne Coulby]

I kept shutting down and restarting Mozilla and the problem persisted. I killed
the mozilla process in Windows Task Manager and restarted and the problem went away.

Comment 7

[vanieter]

I have the same problem. I run Windows 98 with the latest Release Candidate (3)
and often, images are switched for text, which gets annoying really fast.

Comment 8

[Jonny Graham]

Windows 98SE and build 2002053008

I'm not sure this is a bug! I can reproduce it if I choose
Preferences->Privacy&Security->Images->Accept images that come from originating
server only
However if I uncheck this, cnn.com (and hotmail.com) look fine.


It's slightly ironic, because the only images that *do* load is some of the
adverts! I think this is because they are specified within javascript, but
someone who has a better knowledge of that sort of stuff would need to say for sure.

Comment 9

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

wfm then.  Many large sites use akamai and friends to host images.