293659 - some images are rendered as 4x4 spots (no matter gif,png or jpeg)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[roman]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; pl-PL; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

In Firefox 1->1.0.3 under RedHat9 and WinXP some images (no matter what format)
are rendered incorrectly while loaded remotely (http://...).
Same images loaded using OpenFile are displayed OK.
Mozillas 0.9->1.7.7 display OK no matter how loaded (also Netscape, IE, Opera).
However images originally resided within a map, it is probably not a question of
surrounding HTML since the problem persists for direct GETs as well:

http://www.science24.com/resources/paper/2598/banner1.gif
http://www.science24.com/resources/paper/2598/banner1.png
http://www.science24.com/resources/paper/2598/banner1.jpg

Images named banner1.* were never in a map hence should not be cached.
Images were created using GIMP. Other images (including other created with GIMP)
are rendered OK. Convertion by convert does not help (test png and jpeg were
created this way).


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. load http://www.science24.com/resources/paper/2598/banner1.gif
2. or http://www.science24.com/resources/paper/2598/banner1.png
3. or http://www.science24.com/resources/paper/2598/banner1.jpg

Actual Results:  
image is rendered as a 4x4px small bright dot. Should be 600x200 banner.

Expected Results:  
display actual image

Standard installation of RH9 with Firefox 1 up to 1.0.3 downloaded was observed
on 3 Linux machines and 1 WinXP.

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050510
Firefox/1.0+ ID:2005051010

WFM, all show fullsize
are you sure you aren't blocking them with Adblock or modified userChrome.css ?

Comment 2

[roman]

I do not know what Adblock is nor I touched userChrome.css. Running on defaults.

However, when I made a guest account for you to allow checking the issue
on-site, I realised that on the newly created account Firefox works fine.
Existing accounts were converted from Mozilla. Still, sequence:

1. rm -rf ~/.mozilla
2. run (and install) old Mozilla (creates ~./mozilla on exit)
3. run (and import settings into) Firefox

does not change anything, i.e. images are ok.

I tried then to delete my ~/.mozilla folder hoping that some misconfiguration
remained there. No luck - even deleted, Firefox magically remembers bookmarks,
history and keeps corrupting images. Where the configuration is kept then ("find
. -cmin 1" shows no changes in my home except for ~./mozilla creation)?

What should I do to reset settings of Firefox effectively?

Comment 3

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

backup your valuable data
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_backup
and delete your profile
create a new one and copy the relevant backups into it

Comment 4

[roman]

That's exactly what I did:

1. closed all Mozillas and Firefoxes
2. zip -ry .mozilla.zip .mozilla
3. rf -Rf .mozilla
4. firefox

and... I saw my bookmarks (and other stuff) unchanged. New dir ".mozilla" was
created. Does "your profile folder" in doc stands for "~/.mozilla" in Linux?

Comment 5

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile
 ~/.mozilla/firefox/<Profile name>/

Comment 6

[roman]

Okay, then deleting entire tree ~/.mozilla/..... removes any profiles, right?

Comment 7

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

yes

Comment 8

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 9

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

seems to be resolved now