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Avatars not displaying in IE 9
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I did not see another thread about this.
For a while now most avatars have, occasionally, not displayed properly in IE 9. In their place, white boxes with x's appear. Sometimes when I do a hard refresh, or clear my cache, the images will reappear but then shortly they return to the white boxes.
I noticed that this problem only affects avatars hosted on the forum. Persons with photobucket avatar images display fine.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Edit: Also, users with the http://forums.penny-arcade.com/themes/pennyarcade/design/images/profile_user.png profile display properly.
For a while now most avatars have, occasionally, not displayed properly in IE 9. In their place, white boxes with x's appear. Sometimes when I do a hard refresh, or clear my cache, the images will reappear but then shortly they return to the white boxes.
I noticed that this problem only affects avatars hosted on the forum. Persons with photobucket avatar images display fine.
Has anyone else had this problem?
Edit: Also, users with the http://forums.penny-arcade.com/themes/pennyarcade/design/images/profile_user.png profile display properly.
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Anyone have an idea as to what might cause this? Some quirky security setting, or something like that?
Edit: When I try to load the url for a particular individual's avatar image it takes me to the forum's "Page Not Found" page. It's as if the image link is broken...sometimes. For example, the url for my avatar is supposedly http://cdn.forums.penny-arcade.com/pennyarcade.vanillaforums.com/userpics/280/pN8S60I4WRBQL.jpg going to that url brings up a "Page Not Found". But when I go to the url for someone who hosts their avatar on photobucket it works just fine.
Edit Edit: And now it's displaying all the images, but the url for my avatar seems to have changed. Now it says the url is http://cdn.forums.penny-arcade.com/pennyarcade.vanillaforums.com/userpics/280/nN8S60I4WRBQL.jpg and that displays properly.
So,
http://cdn.forums.penny-arcade.com/pennyarcade.vanillaforums.com/userpics/280/pN8S60I4WRBQL.jpg fucks up
http://cdn.forums.penny-arcade.com/pennyarcade.vanillaforums.com/userpics/280/nN8S60I4WRBQL.jpg works fine
Why the shit would the url for my avatar randomly change?
Grr.
So, to test it, I played around with the folder size and tried to repeat the situation. It did not work a second time.
So, the problem does not seem to be related to the size of the temporary internet folder.
I'm not sure if this is progress or not.
I only use IE9. I don't know if another browser would function.
Fonjo said the same problem happens in chrome, back in December.
Aldo said the same problem happens in Firefox, back in January.
Avatars do not display correctly in Google Chrome, either.
But you have to admit that you feel a little more smug while using Chrome, right?!
Oh, undoubtedly!
So, the problem doesn't seem to result from:
- Browser (occurs in both IE / Chrome)
- Temporary Internet File Disk Space (I've changed the settings numerous times.)
- Temporary Internet File clutter (It happens / doesn't happen when the folder is empty and full)
- Temp file clutter (It happens / doesn't happen after disk cleanup, and without disk cleanup)
- Running other programs (It happens /doesn't happen when it's just the browser, when other programs are running, when I alt-tab from other programs to browser, etc.)
I'm out of ideas for things to check. If you think of anything, I'd be happy to try it.
Just home.
Edit: For Chrome, I just installed Chrome and loaded the forums. I didn't change any of the default settings.
When the avatars aren't loading, run Charles and re-load the page. Then inspect the GETs for the images in Charles and see why they're failing.
Will the charles thing work with either browser?
I'll install that Charles thing on my desktop and report back some time in the future.