644134 - "Load images automatically" is not working properly in some instances...

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 331257

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[VinaHelp]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

I did report this bug before (about nearly a year ago), and receive the response that the problem would be solved in the 4th version of Firefox. However, I just downloaded Firefox 4 and test, I see that the bug is not fixed anything. Below is the bug I am saying about:
The "Load images automatically" functions is not working properly in Google search results when I turn it off.

OK. I went to Tools ---> Options to uncheck "Load images automatically" and click OK. I went back to http://google.com (I don't mean I went to the image search place, I am talking about web searching of Google) and type this keyword "white tiger" (without the double quotes), I pressed enter to retrieve the results. I now saw the pictures of white tigers in Google's results (those are extra results Google inserts into the normal web search results).

You guys may try this link instead: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1525&bih=690&q=white+tiger&aq=f&aqi=g-c10&aql=f&oq=


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Turn off "Load images automatically" in Options.
2.Go to http://google.com and search for this keyword: "white tiger".

Actual Results:  
In the results, you see the pictures of white tigers displayed.

Expected Results:  
The browser should not display the pictures because "Load images automatically" was turned off.

Comment 1

[AndreiD[QA]]

I was able to reproduce on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0

Can you provide the number of the bug that you reported before? just to keep track of the issue.

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

I've just looked it up, the previous was bug 572878.

Reporter, could you see if the issue occurs if using Firefox in safe mode:
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode

How about with a new, empty testing profile? (Don't install any addons into it)
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#w_8-make-a-new-profile

Comment 3

[VinaHelp]

I just tested with your two suggestions, Ed. However, both did not help anything here.
Sorry because I could not find my last report (searching did not show my report).

Comment 5

[AndreiD[QA]]

Based on the fact that the previous reported bug 572878 was set as RESOLVED in June 2010 and the issue was reproducible having the following regression window:

Reproducible on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100828 Firefox/4.0b5pre
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/6e3f6d18c124

Works For me on:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100827 Minefield/4.0b5pre
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e1d55bbd1d1d

IMO this bug should be set on NEW not a dupe since for some builds the problem was fixed. Setting it to UNCONFIRMED

Comment 6

[Alice0775 White]

(In reply to comment #5)
> Works For me on:
> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100827 Minefield/4.0b5pre
> http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e1d55bbd1d1d

I can reproduce with 20100827 nightly  if I set general.useragent.override to Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100827 Firefox/4.0b5pre
(i.e. UA include Firefox, not Minefield)

So I think this is duplicate of bug 331257

Comment 7

[AndreiD[QA]]

In reply to comment #6 - Changing user agent displays images even if the option is disabled

I can reproduce this on the the Minefield build 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100827 Minefield/4.0b5pre 
if using the User Agent Switcher 0.7.3 Addon 
BUT works for me if on a clean profile (no addons installed)

Bug 331257 was reported on the the 1.5 version.
The issue reported here refers to version 4.0. And since 1.5 the issue was fixed (see bug 572878) and reappeared

Comment 8

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that image blocking only blocks remote images.  And Google is using data: URIs, which don't count as "remote".

What's the use case for blocking images that don't actually have to be downloaded to be displayed?

Comment 10

[AndreiD[QA]]

In reply to Comment#8
Thanks for clearing out the problem