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"felix_unger" <me@nothere.biz> wrote in message 
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> On 12-June-2015 11:57 AM, felix_unger wrote:
>> On 12-June-2015 9:26 AM, Computer Nerd Kev wrote:
>>> felix_unger <me@nothere.biz> wrote:
>>>> On 10-June-2015 1:14 PM, Rod Speed wrote:
>>>>> What happens with other than browsers with say word
>>>>> documents that have some graphics embedded  or with
>>>>> whatever you use that displays jpgs etc.
>>>> no problems. It's just the browsers. does chrome use silverlight?
>>> Found with a quick search for "Silverlight" on the Chrome Wikipedia
>>> page:
>>>
>>> "On April 14, 2015, Google released Chrome v42, disabling the NPAPI
>>> by default. This makes plugins that do not have a PPAPI plugin
>>> counterpart incompatible with Chrome, such as Java, Silverlight and
>>> Unity. However, NPAPI support can be enabled through the
>>> chrome://flags menu, until the release of version 45 in September
>>> 2015, which will have NPAPI support removed entirely."
>>>
>>> So if you've got the latest version and didn't tell it to do
>>> otherwise, it's supposed to be ignoring Silverlight.
>>>
>>> Surely it's easy to disable Silverlight in FireFox? Then again,
>>> I don't think I've ever installed it, and it is M$ rubbish...
>>
>> It's required for netflix (and others applications)
>>
>>>
>>> Have you tried saving web pages to file and checking if the images
>>> get saved (either using a browser or manually looking at files)?
>>
>> no, but I will now
>
> now it's getting interesting. :) when I save a web page from the XP 
> machine with the 'faulty' FF browser, and compare the saved files with 
> those from the same saved page that displays properly in FF on a win7 
> machine, the files are identical with only two exceptions; both being 1kb 
> files which don't appear on the XP machine, namely id and onlinejs viz: 
> http://ausnet.info/pc/comparison.jpg They could be exclusive to the win7 
> OS, or they could be related to the problem. also, if I load the saved 
> page from the win7 machine (on the win7 machine), it does NOT display 
> properly, but rather similar to the 'faulty' display in FF on the XP 
> machine. further, disabling Java and DRM produces no improvement in the 
> display. all of this seems to be telling me that the problem is for some 
> reason images that are exclusively online are not being loaded.

Yes, that is a reasonable conclusion, that it’s
the online images that aren't being displayed.

>>> Perhaps the browsers can't get to the stuff they have in their
>>> local cache? Strange that it would happen in both browsers using
>>> different caches though. Might still be worth turning the cache
>>> off to see what happens.
>>
>> will try that too
>
> I had emptied the cache, now disabled it, with no improvement
>
>>
>>>
>>> I don't know how it would be a faulty video card - images on web
>>> pages don't use any different video mode to everything else on
>>> the screen. Maybe video driver at a very big, unlikely, stretch.
>>> Check the browser related software first.
>>
>> thanks for this. I'll post the result of those trials.
>>
>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm thinking maybe Silverlight is the problem as that is common to
>>>>>>>> both browsers, and the issue only started after I was using
>>>>>>>> netflix, which requires Silverlight.
>>>>>>> If you did buy that BoostSpeed 7 or it came with the Dell, its 
>>>>>>> possible
>>>>>>> that it does pop up because of some problem with Silverlight.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> It happens in both IE and FF so I guess it must be system
>>>>>>>>>>>> related, not browser settings. Or faulty video card maybe? I
>>>>>>>>>>>> have checked every setting I can find, but don't seem to see
>>>>>>>>>>>> anything amiss. I don't recall it being like this before.
>>>>>>>>>>>> it's an old Dell PC running winXP btw. thanks
 

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