why does firefox not display icons?

[Gary Kline]

On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:19:36PM +0100, Polytropon wrote:
> On Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:23:57 -0700, Gary Kline <kline at thought.org> wrote:
> > Hey guys,
> > 
> > in trying to get firefox to work with flash-9, i must have done Something
> > so that now, ff no longer displays, say, the google icons.  there is just
> > a red dot, or the string "[IMAGE]" where a jpg should be.
> 
> One possibility could be that you accidently switched off
> "show images" in some preference dialog. Maybe you could
> check this?


	I've checked this N times and have "Load images automagically"
	checkmarked.  Can any firefox [not ff3] user 2-check to see if there
	is some image-loader that I missed?

	thanks anyway, Polyt.

	gary
> 
> Allthough Firefox is not my primary browser (which is Opera),
> I think there is some setting that prevents images from bein
> loaded. Instead, the alt or longdesc attribute of the <img>
> tag is shown, or, in case that an image has been referenced
> that does not exist, a red dot or X is shown.
> 
> At least, that how your situation looks to me...
> 
> 
> 
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> Polytropon
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