1538512 - Firefox displays images even though this is disabled.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: Settings and Preferences, defect, P2)

Description

[123schrottmail]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android 7.0; Mobile; rv:65.0) Gecko/65.0 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

enabled "show pictures only wlan" ( Grafiken anzeigen nur über WLAN)
"block pictures" behaves the same way.

Actual results:

google search and bing search show pictures

Expected results:

google search and bing search should not show images.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Going to https://www.google.com and https://www.bing.com both result in the images on the page being blocked on my Pixel 3 running Android 9. Are there other pages where you see this?

The preference blocks images that are a separate resource. Inlined images such as data: URIs are not blocked as they are part of the initial page. Blocking them after the information has been downloaded makes little sense.

Comment 2

[Eliza Balazs]

Hi!

I tested this on the latest versions of Nightly 68.0a1 (2019-03-24), Beta 67.0b4, Release 66.0.1 with Nexus 6P (Android 8.1.0), OnePlus 5T (Android 9), Huawei Honor 8 (Android 7) and I could reproduce the issue for google.com search.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Go to google.com;
2. Go to Menu -> Settings -> Advanced -> Show images and choose "Blocked";
3. Search something on google.com;
4. Observe the images.

Actual result:
On google.com search results the images are displayed even if "Show images" is set to "Blocked".

Expected result:
The images are hidden.

Notes:

• This is not reproducible on Nexus 9 (Android 7.1.1, Tablet);
• If choosing images from the google search menu, they are hidden;
• On bing.com this is reproducible only for some searches: e.g. "Hello", for the first video displayed in the search results;
• This is not reproducible on amazon.com, wikipedia.com, imdb.com, youtube.com;
  Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15s9zEEvGLmGv9BeUAeeIIN2Q3cA1VbUm/view

Comment 3

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

If these really are inline images, then we should likely close this as not a bug.

123schrottmail, does that make sense to you? What do you expect in the case of inline images?

Sorina, can you take a look at what Chrome does?

Comment 4

[123schrottmail]

I think this is a bug. If an option is called: "block images", then all images have to be blocked, whether inline or not.I think a normal user doesn't know at all what inline images are. Especially since this option worked in earlier Firefox versions.

Comment 5

[Sorina Florean [:sflorean]]

Attachment: FirefoxBlockedImages.jpg

On Chrome for Android, no option was displayed in order to block the images.

But, at the suggestion of Petru, I tested also on Chrome and Firefox - desktop. Chrome is blocking all the images, including Google searches and Firefox just a part of them.
I agree with the reporter, that this is a bug and we should block all the images if we have this option.

Comment 6

[Diana Rus]

Hi, the issue can be reproduced with Google Pixel 3a XL (Android 9), Samsung Galaxy S8+ (Android 8.0.0) and Sony Xperia Z5 (Android 7.0.0) on Firefox Release 68.2.0 and Firefox Beta 68.3b1

Note:
On Fenix this option seems that it is not yet implemented: https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/810

Comment 7

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