No images display when using Firefox 2.0.0.14
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When using Firefox (2.0.0.14), if I view my blog, or use the media library in the dashboard, none of dozens of images display at all. No thumbnails, no full-size, nothing — not even an unable to load image placeholder.
Everything displays fine using IE7.
These are just plain old jpegs. Is there a setting in Firefox that might be affecting this? I find it hard to believe it is a bug in wordpress, since people would be screaming about this I think. I searched the forums and found only one related post.
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Looking at the html source of the dashboard Media Library page in Firefox using “view source” there are a lot of red slashes, with the red highlighting html errors. Each entry in the media library has the following for each image:
<img src="http://myblog.wordpress.com/files/2008/05/someimage.jpg?w=33" width="33" height="60" class="attachment-80x60" alt="" />
Note the slash at the very end before the closing “>”, which is highlighted in red in the Firefox view source window.
I also see the same slash at the end of ANY html tag that doesn’t have a paired closing tag. So breaks appear as:
Of course the ending slashes are there in IE view source as well, but I guess IE just ignores them.
Looks like a bug in wordpress to me (or is it Firefox?).
Is no one else seeing this?
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More info:
I just looked at a few other blogs on wordpress.com using Firefox, and they seem to display jpegs just fine — even though the red-flagged slashes are still there when viewing the source.
Now I’m even more confused. I’d post a link to the blog with the problem here, except it is a private blog… :(
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Okay, I found the problem. If the blog is setup in settings as a private blog — the “I would like my blog to be visible only to users I choose” is chosen — then Firefox cannot display ANY images. Toggle that option to either of the other two and images do display in Firefox. Weird.
Anyone care to verify this behavior?
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The same thing happens when I use Camino. No images are displayed on private blogs. The solution is… using Safari.
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I just checked my blog with pictures with this XHTML validator.
http://validator.w3.org/The pictures all validated fine so this is Valid XHTML code with backslash.
So the code shouldnt be the problem with your pictures in Foxfire.
Foxfire recognizes XHTML and HTML.
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I believe you’re right, it’s probably the settings. Alert staff via the Support button on your dashboard. I know that earlier this year they made it so images uploaded to private blogs couldn’t be displayed anywhere else, but those images should still be available to the blogs on which they were uploaded.
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dlager: I think you’re right, the slash isn’t the problem. Just a red herring.
I imagine it must be something to do with how Firefox is forming its http request for the images, which makes the wordpress server think its not an authenticated request. Odd that it doesn’t trigger an error message or something.
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I ran ethereal and captured the low level requests. I noticed some bizarre differences between the cookie sent in IE and Firefox when getting a page with an image. Firefox’s cookie had references to google and my blogspot site that had no business being in the cookie for a wordpress site, and my wordpress account name was missing. I keep a bunch of tab pages open at once in Firefox and I think there must be some kind of cookie bug in Firefox. Yikes.
I ran a clean Firefox in another session and all the images on my wordpress site load correctly.
So, final result: THIS IS A FIREFOX BUG!!
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jeffhwords, I use Firefox 2.0.0.14, and I have a private blog (for trials and experiments): images display quite ok. (Perhaps I should add: Mac, not PC).
Second, I noticed the piece of source code you give. This is arcane territory to me, but in case it’s any good, mine (no red slashes!) don’t end with:
alt=”” />
They end with:
alt=”” /></td>
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