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[Vlad]

Ok, I've been using Firefox for a few months now, and I'm generally loving it, but there's two little issues that have been bothering me, and I haven't been able to find a solution yet...

- How do you get it to stop having a little error message pop up whenever it can't access a page? For example, Google appears to be down at the moment (or my ISP is having problems again). This is causing every single thread I view here to give me a timeout error due to the google ads that GA runs. That was one nice thing about IE... if it couldn't load a banner, it would just display the error in the space where the banner should be. Firefox feels the need to shove a pop-up Alert window in your face every time.

- Another nice thing about IE was that when it couldn't load an image, it would show the good old red X. However, Firefox shows nothing. It'd be nice to know that there's an image there that's supposed to be loaded, instead of all traces of it just vanishing. Is there any way to get Firefox to show a placeholder of some sort if it can't load a picture?

 

[iapetus]

Um. I get a broken image icon for missing images. Which version of Firefox are you using?

I do remember getting that sort of result, though. It conforms to the HTML spec pretty well - if there's a specified size you get the box for it, if not, then it defaults to 0 by 0.

 

[Vlad]

Um. I get a broken image icon for missing images. Which version of Firefox are you using?

I do remember getting that sort of result, though. It conforms to the HTML spec pretty well - if there's a specified size you get the box for it, if not, then it defaults to 0 by 0.

I'm using version 1.0. I've had that problem with images ever since I started using it, though, a few versions ago. As a test...

I put an invalid image there, and on my screen, all I see is blank space, as if nothing is even supposed to be there.

 

[iapetus]

It's the alt="" that's making it disappear in that case. Firefox is correctly replacing the broken image with the alternate image text, which is an empty string. Hey presto! Invisible image.

If valid alt text were specified, then that would appear instead. If no alt text were specified at all (rather than an empty string) you'd get a broken image icon.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

- How do you get it to stop having a little error message pop up whenever it can't access a page? For example, Google appears to be down at the moment (or my ISP is having problems again). This is causing every single thread I view here to give me a timeout error due to the google ads that GA runs. That was one nice thing about IE... if it couldn't load a banner, it would just display the error in the space where the banner should be. Firefox feels the need to shove a pop-up Alert window in your face every time.

I hated this too. If doing something like BitTorrent on the side and the connection was sucked a bit too dry, I'd start having to deal with those. It went away when I got the Show Failed URL extension, and as part of its installation instructions commands

Displays failed URLs in the URL bar when XUL error pages are enabled. XUL error pages are enabled by setting browser.xul.error_pages.enabled to true (this can be done via about:config, prefs.js or user.js).

With that setting changed the extension in there, it will cease the popups, give you an error page, and allow you to easily Refresh or whatnot.

 

[Anthropic]

Vlad, try the method described on this page and see if it fixes your problem:

http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/adblock.html