Some images will not load in Firefox

[nomaad]

So... on any given ICMag page some of the images will not load and I get only text. The main logo, for instance... and some of the flags in the automatic translations row of flags (Arabic, English, Hebrew, Norwegian, Slovak and Thai)... In addition the buttons for adding photo links to posts and all those other buttons don't work. When I click on the name in a posters signature/avatar section, I go to their page instead of getting the dropdown list of options. Only some of the banners load. Rez's for one. The rest are just text. Its not different ones each time I load an icmag page...same images every time. I have restarted, uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox, tested in other browsers (chrome and IE work fine)... has been going on for weeks. Any ideas?

 

[nomaad]

oh...and my posts are break-less... I have to type the code for a paragraph break... each time I edit a post, I have to replace all the quotes that have been replaced with gibberish.

strange.

 

[nomaad]

i also only see the first five rep squares for any given user...after that it says things like "nomaad is a splendid one to behold"... very strange.

 

[Skip]

Do you have the latest firefox version? What kind of Internet connection do you have? Are you using a proxy?

 

[nomaad]

ver 3.0.1... if I check for updates FF finds none. but...apparently, that is not the way to do it... i am dloading the most current version now... my bad.

1mbit DSL.

No Proxy.

I'll post if the new version fixes.

 

[nomaad]

NO change with version 3.5.4 of firefox.

 

[Skip]

I've run into this problem myself. It seems to disappear once your computer caches the images. Perhaps you need to provide more caching to your browser.

I remember dealing with this issue a couple of months ago and it appeared that the problem was with the # of images the browser loads before it times out after waiting for them.

Are you using https:// to browse the site?

Reloading the page a few times can help with getting all the images cached.

Definitely review your browser's settings for anything that might be relevant to image or file caching.

 

[nomaad]

OK... I was not browsing ICM with https://... so by just adding the "s" to the bookmark I use, most of the problems have gone away. The only one I still notice is the green rep squares following the first group of five. Still says "Skip has much to be proud of" a couple of times. I will mess with the caching abilities of the browser.

Thanks, skip. As usual, much help.

 

[nomaad]

Oh... here is another wierd symptom that came up... in the part of My IC where it has your subscribed threads that have been posted to... the orange envelopes in the left column had been replaced by half images from some kind of travel website... they said something like "Searching for the best fares" or something. It was as if the links to some images were linked to another site. I did not recognize the images as being from another site i may have images cached from....

 

[nomaad]

OK...after a few more page loads with https:// the rep squares have returned to normal.

 

[Skip]

ah, ok, it seems some browsers are going to have probs until you browse the site under https:// to bring up all the images... I'll check to see how those particular images are referenced...

Thanks for letting me know.

OK, I think I finally figured out what happens and the fix.

Your browser is caching both http & https referenced files. So when you go in one mode it can't bring up the images that were cached under the other mode.

So the solution is just to clear your browser's cache...