I had some comp trouble, and had to reinstall my browser. I use mozilla 1.5.7.0, but have also tried mozilla 2.0 and IE6, and none of them seem to be able to display background, along with a few other types of images.

Erm, interesting.

 

Try deleting all your cookies and Temporary Internet Files.

other than the pop-up blocker that came with FF, try turning any advertisment/popup blockers off.

 

some prevent the display of anything that has 'ad' in its address, and the sfn images that aren't being displayed appear to be stored at:

 

http://www.scienceforums.net/images/gradients/gradient_thead.gif

It's not just images, all of the background colors seem to be gone.

are you sure?

 

im right-clicking all around the page, and i'm always getting the 'view background image' option. (eg the background for this post is stored at http://www.scienceforums.net/images/sfn/right-shadow.jpg)

 

whoever did the colour-scheme seems to have liked gradients

 

and those images that are displaying seem to be under /sfn/, /icons/, or /consol/ rather than anything with 'ad' in it.

 

nm if im right, you should be able to see our avitars, as their location doesn't have ad in it.

right-shadow.png is the shadow on the right-hand side of the page for the page border. The actual post background color is controlled by CSS.

hmm. right you are.

 

guess 'view background image' means view the image that's in the background, even if there's a coloured box over it

 

it was such a cunning observation aswell, apart from the being wrong bit

Heh, indeed.

 

The fact that it's cross-browser suggests incredible wackiness. Nevermore, do you get the same images and backgrounds missing across all the browsers?

Yes.

 

I don't have ad blockers. I just right click and "block images from this site".

Wacky.

 

No antivirus software with a nice convenient adblocking system?

I have one, but it's disabled. I manually block spam. It's less of a hassle. Anyway, I got opera, and that works. I'll stick with it for now. Thanks for all the help anyway.

bizzare indeed. so we have a problem that is cross-browser, cross-rendering engine, but works in geko-opera, despite not working in geko-firefox

 

the only thing i can think of that makes opera different from the others is that you presumably installed it later...

 

did you try 4nums suggestion of flushing the temporary internet files?

 

I've never seen one do anything this bizzare, but firewalls can do some pretty stupid stuff. it wouldnt entirely surprise me if the css file was bloked in an attempt to stop sites automatically opening other files.

 

oh, and kiero-sunbelt firewall has an ad-bloking feature.

 

other than that, i'm tempted to suspect the can-cause-any-odd-behaviour malware... a html-protocol or LSP hijack could, in theory, accidentaly cause you probs, but that wouldn't explain opera working...

 

have you tried anti-spyware scans etc?

I can quite easily reproduce the behaviour in Firefox by going to Edit->Preferences, clicking the content tab and then the "Colours... " button, and disabling the "Allow pages to choose their own colours" checkbox.

I can quite easily reproduce the behaviour in Firefox by going to Edit->Preferences, clicking the content tab and then the "Colours... " button, and disabling the "Allow pages to choose their own colours" checkbox.

 

*snigger* nice one dave