Pictures Not Showing?

If you use Firefox and can’t see the pictures on our blog, like the spate of recent ones of the kids, there is probably a setting you can change.

If you click Tools, Options, and then Content (that’s how it is in my version; yours may vary but looking for the same option should do you), there is a checkbox for “Load Images.” Normally that’s going to be checked, though if you’re on dialup and want to speed up your surfing, deselecting it would be what you’d want.  Let’s assume you want to see pictures, or you wouldn’t have read this far.

There is a secondary checkbox, under and indented from the “Load Images” one.  It is “for the originating web site only.” What that means is any pictures not hosted on the domain of the site you are viewing will not display if that is checked.

Why would you do that?  Perhaps to avoid graphical ad content embedded one place, hosted another.

Trouble is, when we got low on space where AV and BB are hosted, we started putting pictures over at elhide.com, which is a different domain and a different hosting account.  What we probably should do one of these years is consolidate and/or separate.  By that I mean expand the capacity of one account, host additional domains on it, and take advantage of the presumed boost in space at a lower cost than for a second account.  The only thing is, each hosting account is on a different server, so when one is funky or down, another is up, unless the host is really having trouble.  To cope with that, it would make sense to host some with one host and some with another, which will probably happen in the next year, depending what expires when and how much of a pain things will be to move.

Meanwhile, any pictures I post at blogblivion.com are actually living at elhide.com, so blocking externally sourced images will hide them.

1. The pictures on my blog (pmburgess.blogspot.com) are actually hosted on my personal website, paulburgess.org. I mean, Blogger will host blog pictures for free, but originally I had some idea about not wanting to let Google/Blogger get their mitts in perpetuity on my pictures.

   Then, something over a year ago, I switched to a new webhost for paulburgess.org, and suddenly I noticed that some pictures on my blog were randomly not loading. For that matter, visit paulburgess.org and some of the pictures would randomly not load there, either. Didn’t matter which browser or browser settings I was using. Finally discovered that the determining factor was my use of the Privoxy web filter. Turn off Privoxy, and all the pictures would load fine.

   I run across very few sites where Privoxy has this effect. Though I’ve long noticed the same effect on FortuneCity sites. A little further digging: it looks like my new webhost is a subsidiary of FortuneCity. I assume that explains it.

   Posted by Paul Burgess  on  08/28  at  07:09 AM  from 
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