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| Thread ID: 47195 | 2004-07-19 03:06:00 | Firefox not loading all images problem | Terry Porritt (14) | Press F1 |
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| 253419 | 2004-07-19 03:06:00 | I've been trialling Mozilla Firefox for a little while, and mostly it seems ok. I have 'Load Images' set under Tools/Options/Web Features, but on some websites it doesnt load images , whereas IE does. For example, this page doesnt load the jpg images in Firefox: mikes.railhistory.railfan.net It just shows the placeholders and the text associated with the picture, in IE the images load as the page is loading.. I tried installing Sun Java but that didnt help for this problem. Is there something I'm overlooking? OS is XP Professional. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 253420 | 2004-07-19 03:27:00 | This is simply poor coding on the HTML writers side. Look at the source code for the page and you'll see its very basic. What the writer has done is made the mistake of using Backslashes when the author should have used forwardslashes. One of the pics is linked as: imfile\04510.jpg It should be: imfile/04510.jpg To get: mikes.railhistory.railfan.net The best you can do is: Contact the website owner and tell them of their mistake. They _need_ to use forwardslashes, even when developing the page offline! Manually view each image. While this would suck for pages with lots of pics you want to see, there's precious little you can do about it sorry. Hope this helps Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 253421 | 2004-07-19 05:16:00 | The graphics load fine in Opera. ;-) Chill is right though, the webpage author has got his backslashes for the images around the wrong way. Opera is less tolerant than IE for sloppy code but not quite as much as Firefox. The webmaster needs a bit of educating. ;-) |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 253422 | 2004-07-19 06:15:00 | Thanks folks, I should have spotted that, I did get as far as being able to download the images from the /imfile folder. Incidently for those interested in steam trains, there is that marvellous Reginald Gardiner monologue from 1934 for download on that site. It is still played on National Radio every now and then. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 253423 | 2004-07-19 06:33:00 | I checked source code on the page you want. Why not have several operating systems, several browsers, several email clients, several spreadsheet and word processing applications, several firewalls, several antivirus and spyware applications, several games which run under different operating systems. Now all this will maybe cost you time in reformatting, partitioning, configuring and imaging for backup. It will cost you maybe to buy other hardware compatible with what O/S you use. Further to that you can spend heaps of time on the Internet trying to get drivers for the hardware, for the O/S if you understand my meaning. So you are on the Internet using a Linux Email client and you happen to receive a Microsoft Word doc from me as a file attach. Hope you installed OpenOffice. What say you want to open the file attachment and add to it and send it back to me? Will I be able to view the file you sent and comment on your addition(s)? Now I have absolutely no objection to people using (on the hardware they bought) any software they want. I have no objection to people upgrading the hardware they bought if they can. I am as guilty as any other by downloading other software and trying it etc. Before I install anything major like new hardware or decide to dual boot I do a complete backup. Sorry to hijack the Firefox bit and I can't help you there. One point though.... Most web sites will be optimised for IE bearing in mind that that is the browser most people use. Windows update may not work for you with anything other than IE. For me I use:- WinXP Pro as the main O/S Hard drive caddy with trays for removable hard drives on which I can put what I want to try. This saves dual booting. |
Elephant (599) | ||
| 253424 | 2004-07-19 06:46:00 | IE has been labelled as the most insecure browser on the planet and the ICAA (I think.. that's the acronym) has recommended that you use any browser but Internet Explorer! Stuff the webdevs who program for it, they need to learn to program for a real browser! The first thing I do on PC's of friends / family's PC's when setting them up is install MozillaFirefox, boot knoppix, move \Program Files\Internet Explorer to \Program Files\Internet Explorer Backup, then copy \Program Files\MozillaFirefox to \Program Files\Internet Explorer, and lastly copy the firefox executable to iexplore.exe in \Program Files\Internet Explorer (Which is really firefox). This way there's no hope of IE and its insecurities infecting your PC! /me doesnt like IE... With a passion... Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 253425 | 2004-07-19 08:19:00 | Very interesting Chill, I'll try that out on my backup hard drive before the next backup is due to see how it goes, and if there are any hidden snags. Elephant, afraid I couldn't follow your argument ?:| |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 253426 | 2004-07-19 08:32:00 | Incidently I used to use Internet in a Box version of Mosaic, that was before Microsoft recognised that the internet existed, then Netscape versions up to 4.7 which was quite good, at which point IE had really took over from Netcape. Around version 6 Netscape became quite bloated and grotty. I had tried earlier Opera versions, but didnt want to pay for a browser. Firefox seems really good, I'll probably stay with it. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 253427 | 2004-07-19 21:48:00 | >Firefox seems really good, I'll probably stay with it . Firefox is really good! I run it & Thunderbird on the Linux partition on my PC . I run Mozilla on my WinXP partition & I'm quite happy with that . But, on my laptop, WinXP Pro, I cannot get Firefox (the one I want) to work, or Mozilla for that matter, I've really struggled with it, but to no avail . As I use ICS for my laptop, through a proxy server, AnalogX, I'm wondering whether it's a network issue (802 . 11b wireless network) . Yet IE & Maxthon work perfectly well, is this because IE has some security issues, I'm wondering, which allows it to exploit some configuration weaknesses with my network setup . |
jcr1 (893) | ||
| 253428 | 2004-07-20 01:23:00 | >through a proxy server There be your problem. In Mozilla go to Edit/Preferences/Advanced/Proxies. |
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