Closed Bug 709611 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

unchecking 'load images automatically' still loads some images

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Version:
8 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: elicymerman, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:8.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0
Build ID: 20111104165243

Steps to reproduce:

Options -> Content -> uncheck 'Load images automatically'
Type www.tesco.com in address bar
Press Enter


Actual results:

You will see some images


Expected results:

You should see no images
Sorry - is not a security problem
Group: core-security
The images are base64 encoded in the page. The checkbox only prevents external image files being loaded.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
Thanks. On Chrome though such images are not displayed, but still not displaying them won't be faster so it makes sense to display them.
(In reply to Robert Longson from comment #2)
> The images are base64 encoded in the page. The checkbox only prevents
> external image files being loaded.
Then the checkbox should say so, mentioning the word "external" in its title.
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