Firefox question

[ourdramaqueen]

Since updating to Firefox 3, I can't see things like the product images in Amazon "iframe" ads (I do see the rest of the ads though, and a blank space where the image would be), or the previews of Youtube clips on my flist (again just a big empty space, but I see them perfectly well when I open that particular post). It's the same at work and at home. Does anyone have an idea what could be the cause of this and how I can rectify that? I can't find anything in the Options that seems to fit. Thanks!!!

Comments

[mole-caz.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid not but then I've actually resisted updating as there have been problems and someone on LJ wished they had never done so but I can't recall exactly what went wrong for them. May be others will be more helpful.

[ourdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

Yes I heard complaints too, but I've not had any other problems, thankfully!

[selmak.livejournal.com]

are you on Firefox 3.0.4? or just 3?

[ourdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

Not sure about work, but here at home it's 3.0.4. Huh - just noticed that with 3.0.1 on my laptop (which I've installed from my original download of version 3 back a while) it works. So I guess it's a version glitch?

[iolanthe-rosa.livejournal.com]

I'm running Firefox 3.0.4 and I don't have those problems. I have a Mac running 10.5.5. Perhaps it's a compatibility problem with PCs?

[ourdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

Probably, yes. It's 3.0.4 - still worked in 3.0.1 and I hope it will be fixed by 3.0.5.

[banakil.livejournal.com]

I've had a lot of issues and general weirdness since upgrading to Firefox 3. The most annoying was that I could view videos on some sites but not others. No amount of screwing around with the various settings did any good and for all I know, I made it worse.

So I began again. First, I backed up my bookmark file because losing my hundreds of bookmarks would be a tragedy of epic proportion. Then I completely uninstalled Firefox even saying no to the option of saving my settings since I figured it was my settings that were fucked in the first place. Basically, I wanted there to be no remnants of my current install to interfere with my fresh install. Then I downloaded the latest version of Firefox (unfortunately, I had to use IE for this as I had already uninstalled Firefox. Oy.) and reinstalled.

I had lots of add-ons, many of which I rarely used so I just reinstalled the two most important to me: Adblock and NoScript. As needs arise, I may acquire more but for now, I'm keeping it simple to avoid potential incompatibility. And I figure if I add stuff back slowly, it will be easier to track which add-on is causing issues.

Then I reloaded my bookmark file and tweaked a few of the privacy settings.

Everything appears to be working just fine now. I know starting again from scratch sounds extreme but it took much less time to do that than I had already spent farting around in the bowels of Firefox trying to fix it.

[ourdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

Well thankfully I don't have anywhere near as many problems, it's really just the one above that I've noticed, although I've heard from others that Firefox 3 was problematic. Glad you got it to work again!