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I want broken-image icons, dammit.
I am tired of Firefox not showin' anything when an image doesn't work. It's not useful or desirable in any way shape or form. Netscape did it. IE did it, or, if memory serves, it used to. Firefox doesn't show anything if an image doesn't load, and neither does Evolution (the GNOME browser that also comes with Ubuntu).
Broken-image icons let you know that you HAVE missed something, and give you a location to right-click on to try to force-load the image.
It's just STUPID. Who decided that NOT doing something that the very first GUI browsers did was a good idea? Can I punch them?
Does anyone out there know how to make Firefox DO this?
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kyhwana knew!
"about:config" insisted that "browser.display.show_image_placeholder" was indeed set to "true", so that part of the browser is Just Plain Broken.
Thankfully, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6542 took care of it just fine -- in FF 3.0. For you folks who've already adopted 3.5, you're on your own.
Has anyone else had this problem with Firefox? You'd think if it was common, it would have been fixed by now. Since it's persisted through several full version numbers and two different operating systems, however, I have a hard time believing it's Just Me.
I am tired of Firefox not showin' anything when an image doesn't work. It's not useful or desirable in any way shape or form. Netscape did it. IE did it, or, if memory serves, it used to. Firefox doesn't show anything if an image doesn't load, and neither does Evolution (the GNOME browser that also comes with Ubuntu).
Broken-image icons let you know that you HAVE missed something, and give you a location to right-click on to try to force-load the image.
It's just STUPID. Who decided that NOT doing something that the very first GUI browsers did was a good idea? Can I punch them?
Does anyone out there know how to make Firefox DO this?
EDIT:
kyhwana knew!"about:config" insisted that "browser.display.show_image_placeholder" was indeed set to "true", so that part of the browser is Just Plain Broken.
Thankfully, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6542 took care of it just fine -- in FF 3.0. For you folks who've already adopted 3.5, you're on your own.
Has anyone else had this problem with Firefox? You'd think if it was common, it would have been fixed by now. Since it's persisted through several full version numbers and two different operating systems, however, I have a hard time believing it's Just Me.
