viewing attached imges

[neoshed]

Is there some magic way to view attached images here? I've tried downloading them and they still wont open.

 

[Dan Clark]

neoshed,

Do you mean viewing attached images during preview mode or just viewing attached images that other people have attached?

I've attached an image to this post.  It should appear below.  Can you see this?

Regards,

Dan.

 

[neoshed]

no it just shows a link with the name of the jpg  :'(

 

[Dan Clark]

Strange. 

What browser are you using?  What version?  Also, what happens when you click on the link?

Dan.

 

[Dan Clark]

Additional questions...

Are you using Windows or Mac?

Also, assuming that you're using Windows IE 7, check your Multi-media options (Tools --> Internet Options -- Advanced, then scroll down about 1/2 way).   Make sure that the "Show Pictures" setting is checked.

Regards,

Dan.

 

[neoshed]

firefox on win XP mate. I've never had this on any other forum

 

[Dan Clark]

Neoshed,

Sorry, I can't help you with Firefox.  Have you tried installing IE to see if that fixes the issue?

Dan.

 

[woodpicker]

I am using Firefox on both Mac and Window XP. No problem at all.

Maybe something automatically blocked the image. Try the latest version.

 

[Dave Rudy]

Make sure you are logged in when you try to view pics.  Otherwise, they can show up as text links.

 

[Matthew Schenker]

neoshed,
I'm running SeaMonkey, which is the Mozilla-based software suite.  It operates pretty much like Firefox.  The software should work fine.

I can't figure out why the images would not show up for you.

One question: have there been times when you are able to see the images, or are they always blocked?

Does anyone else have this issue?

Matthew

 

[Ned]

Sorry, I can't help you with Firefox.  Have you tried installing IE to see if that fixes the issue?

IE's already on Neoshed's machine, I think.

In Tools/Options/Content, do you have Load Images Automatically checked?  I unchecked this and produced the symptom you described.

Are you using the NoScript Firefox add-on?  Is it blocking anything on FOG?

To see if it's a rendering engine problem (I doubt it), install the IETab Firefox add-on.  That lets you use Internet Explorer within Firefox, useful for those backward sites that just don't work with a conformant browser like Firefox.

I use only Firefox unless I'm forced to use IE.  I'm on FOG a lot.  Never had a problem.

I recommend both NoScript and IETab to every Firefoxist.

Neoshed, feel free to PM me if you need more help.

Ned

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Ned,
Yes, noscript might be a culprit here.

I have noscript installed on SeaMonkey and I wish I could uninstall it.  What an absolute pain in the neck.  It blocks every single site unless I unblock it manually, which makes extra work for me.  When my wife runs the computer, she's constantly having to ask me how to unblock a site.  In Firefox you can uninstall it.  There's no way to uninstall it in SeaMonkey.  I finally had to tell it to globally accept all scripts, which essentially deactivates it and of course defeats the purpose of the application.  Still, it delays page loading on a lot of sites.

Matthew

 

[Ned]

I have NoScript installed on SeaMonkey and I wish I could uninstall it.  What an absolute pain in the neck.

I think it really boils down to how much you value what NoScript does.  It's the same amount of work for me, but I'm happy to have NoScript on the job.

I don't bother to authorize a site unless it seems to be necessary.  Sites like the Wall Street Journal, in addition to their own sites, bring in all kinds of other (mainly advertising) sites.  I don't care if an ad doesn't display properly, or if someone isn't getting the right count, so I don't go to the trouble of authorizing those sites.

Ned

 

[Matthew Schenker]

Ned,
I wouldn't mind if it worked on objects running in the background on the page I loaded in, but it blocks top-level pages I specifically typed in the address bar.

For example, my wife pays our bills online, and noscript blocks access to our bank's online payment software.  It doesn't just block the home page -- it blocks each new screen of software as if it were a separate application.  Just when I got the pages working, the bank updated its software, and the whole thing started over again.  My wife is not great with computers, so I was always having to manually approve every part of the bank's site.

The only way for me to uninstall noscript from SeaMonkey is to uninstall the entire SeaMonkey application.  Then I have to reinstall all my other settings, plug-ins, and extensions.

Matthew

 

[neoshed]

Thanks for all the suggestions so far.

I do run adblock plus but if it blocks something it tells me so.

Here's a couple of links from the forum.
http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=1694.0  This one has images attached as on the second post as links. If I click the link it asks what I want to do with it so I save it to my desktop but then it doesn't open in windows picture viewer.
http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=1315.0 This one I see all the images within the thread.

I might try the ietab thing as I occasionally have to go to sites where the coders goofed and didn't make the site ffox friendly.

Weird stuff with this image issue. Still it wont put me off looking around here. I'm gagging to get festooled up as soon as I can offload some of the stuff I have and get some clients to pay up.

 

[Ned]

Evidence​

http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=1694.0  This one has images attached as on the second post as links. If I click the link it asks what I want to do with it so I save it to my desktop but then it doesn't open in windows picture viewer.

These are references to attached images.  The images actually reside on FOG's server.  The link is a request to the FOG server to rummage around and hand over the image.

http://festoolownersgroup.com/index.php?topic=1315.0 This one I see all the images within the thread.

These are references to images outside FOG, specifically, addresses on PhotoBucket.com.  They are ordinary hyperlinks (URLS).

but then it doesn't open in windows picture viewer.

Are you saying that it doesn't open automatically in Windows Picture Viewer?  Does it open automatically in some other application instead?  Does it not open automatically at all, but you can manually double-click and it opens?

Response​

Neoshed, you mentioned downloading the images.  Are you clicking on the filename underneath the thumbnail?  When I do that, I get the "You have chosen to open..." dialog box, just as you do.  But I don't do that.  I just click on the thumbnail itself, and boom, it shows the full-size image.  Does that work for you?

Opening downloaded files:  The downloaded file is an ordinary JPG.  Unless the FOG server is corrupting the file (highly, highly, unlikely), this is not a FOG problem.  It's not a Firefox problem.  It's probably a problem of "file associations" on Neoshed's machine.

Neoshed, if clicking on the thumbnail works for you, your FOG problem is solved.  Let's work on the downloaded file problem off-line.  PM me if you want.

Ned