267929 - missing image in header doesn't always show the alt tag

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Mark Lit]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040913 Firefox/0.10.1

If you create an HTML file withthe following and refresh it, it will sometimes
show a replacement alt tag and the rest of the time it will show a missing image
icon

<h1><img src="doesn-exist" alt="what does this do?"></h1>

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create HTML file with above code
2. Refresh several times and watch what happens
3.

Actual Results:  
it would sometimes show the alt tag text and the rest of the time show a broken
image icon

Expected Results:  
something consistant, perhaps just show the alt tag

Comment 1

[Frank Heidebrunn]

- not only in header!
- i have it in about 70% when using local grafic in pages from the web.
(Browser-game with local grafic pack)

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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