280718 - "Load images for originating website only" resets itself to checked state

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[karin]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

I noticed that images sometimes display and sometimes not (this was not the case
with FF 9 on the same PC), on different sites and unpredictably. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Launch the browser, go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgaria#Regions or
another page whose images are contained on a different server.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
The only system found out so far is that "Load images for originating website
only" is always checked and if unchecked manually, resets itself at the very
latest upon restarting the browser, sometimes also during browsing. Immediately
after the manual uncheck, images load all right. If chosen using View image from
the context menu, they load OK until the self-reset occurs.

Expected Results:  
Images load all the time on all sites (sounds kinda mission statement ;-)

See also forum thread
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=210235&sid=ed4f709a21c531dd9457e66f9afcb698
for other people's observations.

The bug was first noticed after a software re-installation and upgrade from XP
to XP SP1. No observation on FF 0.9 behavior under XP SP1 (I upgraded). Not
verified on other OS/machines for lack of such ressource.

Comment 1

[Aravind SV]

Can you check whether you have installed the Image-Show-Hide extension? It seems
to reset the network.image.imageBehavior value and it doesn't seem to reset it
to the previous value.

I faced the same situation. Disabling that extension (Image-Show-Hide) worked
for me.

Arvind

Comment 2

[Aravind SV]

The original poster sent me a mail. She believes that disabling Image-Show-Hide
extension could be a possible solution. Unfortunately, she can no longer
reproduce the behaviour. So, she wanted me to set the resolution of this bug to
"Invalid". As I don't seem to have the privilege to do that, could someone do it
for me?

Thanks,
Arvind

Comment 3

[Kevin Brosnan]

Invalid per the last comments on the bug