.png images in Firefox/Hardy ?

Ubuntu novice here, I'm afraid. I have searched, but haven't found anything clearly related. Also posted this under General Help, but haven't received any responses. I'm running Hardy on an older Pentium box for my daughter. She has complained the some images on some MySpace pages don't display in Firefox (they do, under XP). I finally determined it's png files that fail. Is this a problem with Firefox, or an issue with Ubuntu? Is there a missing plug-in?

Thanks!

Dave

All my images load correctly... There shouldn't be a plugin needed. Right click the image and select "Save Image As..." and double click on it after it saves and see if they look correctly.

Edit: Please don't post more than 1 thread for the same problem. If your other thread is not getting any attention for more than an hour, bump (reply to) it to bring it to the top.

PNG display issues are common with Internet Explorer < 7 and Windows, not Firefox. A have been using Firefox for years with Windows and now with Ubuntu and never had any problems like you described. Maybe the problem is poor written javascript code in the page.

Gannon8 said: All my images load correctly... There shouldn't be a plugin needed. Right click the image and select "Save Image As..." and double click on it after it saves and see if they look correctly.

From a MySpace layout, there doesn't even appear to be a point to click on. (Like the x'ed-out box one sees in Explorer.) If she selects an image slideshow/gallery, and steps through (<next> .. <next>), when it comes to a .png, it re-displays the prior (jpg) image! Under Windows, it all works as expected.

Gannon8 said: Edit: Please don't post more than 1 thread for the same problem. If your other thread is not getting any attention for more than an hour, bump (reply to) it to bring it to the top.

After 5 days in General Help, I re-posted to Absolute Beginners.

Thanks for the input!

Dave

lovinglinux said: Maybe the problem is poor written javascript code in the page.

That's a good thought, as the only experience we have with it failing is on MySpace. I'll try a (local or server-supplied) test page with some plain vanilla html <img ...>'s.

Thanks!

Dave

You could test it out by going to google and searching for different picture filetypes. If they load then its a problem with myspace. If not, bash face against keyboard..:-)

These test images display fine here. http://www.mywebsite.force9.co.uk/png/png24.htm

If you still have a problem here is an easy solution. Merely use The GIMP to convert your png files to jpg files. The jpg files will be larger than the png files but that shouldn't matter and, in any case, if necessary, they can be reduced in size by The GIMP.

To convert, use the Export function. The easiest way to access this is to select your png picture within The GIMP and then click to "save as" and, not changing the name, change the TYPE from png to jpg. A dialog box will appear warning you that it is better to export this file. Click on the export box within that dialog box and - voila - there's your jpg picture.

lhb1142 said: If you still have a problem here is an easy solution.

That's fine for *files*, but this problem is with displaying images within web pages. But thanks for the suggestions!

TheLinuxNewb said: You could test it out by going to google and searching for different picture filetypes. If they load then its a problem with myspace.

That should work - I'll try tonight.

TheLinuxNewb said: If not, bash face against keyboard..:-)

Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of...

Thanks!

As suggested, the problem appears to be with MySpace, probably with their javascript code. png images from Google and other sources work fine.

Not much chance of getting a (quick) fix, but at least it seems to be isolated as to the source of the problem...

Dave