160311 - Slow ads hang page indefinitely - where is "Auto Load Images" button?!?

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 38521

(Core :: Layout: Tables, defect)

Description

[Jason Buchanan]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.1b) Gecko/20020729
BuildID:    Mozilla 1.1b - 2002072904

Occasionally when viewing different sites an inline images in a table can cause
the entire page to not display and hang forever.  This is annoying.  Where is
the "Auto Load Images" toggle switch?  I can bring up Netscape 3.0 and disable
loading images and the page displays fine.

It would be very nice to have the Auto Load Images toggle switch and Images
button (block images is too restrictive and not wanted all the time) back in action.


It would be even nicer if it were possible to display a complete <TABLE> even if
certain images do not appear - why sacrifice displaying a table just because one
of the images doesn't load?  This ruins the user experience.

I realize that this probably isn't an issue of major importance to some people
but it's one of the reasons Mozilla isn't my first browser of choice.  When i'm
in a hurry to bring up pages it's nice to temporarily disable image loading to
speed up the process - the Images button in Netscape 3 was very handy.


Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open mozilla, bring up http://drudgereport.com/ during mid morning EDT
2.ads.clickagent.com or some other ad servers sometimes are unresponsive and
cause the tables on the page to not appear and the page appears blank until you
hit the back button and view another site.
3.

Comment 1

[Daniel Wang]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 38521 ***