OK, not sure what is going on, but my GIFs are not loading and working properly in firefox 28.0 suddenly. Nothing has updated [I don’t let my box autoupdate] so I confess I am somewhat baffled. Any ideas? [image animation mode is still set to normal]
Have you restarted Firefox? Have you shut down and rebooted your computer?
I turned my computer on and started up firefox like normal, I don’t leave my computer on 7/24 and logged into the internet.
So you are saying you haven’t restarted since you noticed the problem? Try that.
It worked the night before, it didn’t work when I booted in and logged onto go online to surf and do email.
SO for the hell of it, I shut everything down had lunch and started again, and still no GIF-love.
What powers GIFs, flash, java, silverlight?
None of the above. GIFs are just a file format, like JPGs. Try and save the image to your hard drive and open it. If it opens in a standard image viewer, then try the Open With and see if you can open in in Firefox directly. That should at least help to determine if it’s a browser or system problem.
Will do =)
A quick note: Have you tested this across multiple sites? I’d assume you have since you’re confident enough to turn off autoupdates (and smart enough to be wary* of constant updates). However affiliated sites will often share a server or backend service that could be misbehaving.
What about in other browsers? Again, I’ll assume you have and that the problem is unique to Firefox
Given those assumptions, I’d check if .gif files have somehow become associated with an external app by Firefox.
Other than that, all I can say offer is the standard troubleshooting advice think about what you were doing around the last time they worked properly (or what somebody else might have done with it since then). Odds are* something you did inadvertently caused the problem (even we pros accidentally mess things up on occassion**).
*only slightly better than even, what with all the automatic updates (firefox may note be autoupdating, but I bet most of your other apps still are) and developers publishing poorly tested updates and unwanted “improvements”.
** The difference is that we usually know how to recover from a mistake, and follow practices to minimize the impact of our mistakes (e.g. scheduled backups, using virtual machines (and other sandbox techniques) for risky operations, etc). I’m not saying you should be like or do that, only that professional techs are just as prone to mistakes as anybody else.