thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
rottingroom —Mon, 08/30/2010 - 19:06
im not sure when this started to happen but im assuming it was when i upgraded to firefox 3.6.8 today.
when i right click on a fast dial thumbnail and hit refresh it will not fetch me a new thumbnail for that bookmark like it did before with no problems. I thought refreshing all of them would help me but now because of that i have no thumbnail images on my fast dial page. Just empty boxes that appear to be constantly "trying" to refresh but with no luck. Is this some sort of compatibility issue? If it is will there be a fix soon?
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Tue, 08/31/2010 - 16:24when i right click on a fast dial thumbnail and hit refresh it will not fetch me a new thumbnail for that bookmark like it did before with no problems.
Thanks for your feedback
I have to to tell you I am running Firefox 3.6.8 with FD 2.23b2 and cannot reproduce your problem.
I have no idea at the moment what could be causing this.
Have you checked that your modem and your connection to the web is working fine ?
Have you changed anything else recently like virus software ?
Please could you try to confirm that this problem still exists using Fast Dial in a new Firefox profile ?
There has to be a cause for this...
many thanks
EDIT
I notice that you have also made the same comment on AMO yesterday
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by rottingroom on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 14:17My connection is fine and I have not changed or upgraded any virus software. I'm using AVG Free. Trying a new profile also did not fix this problem....
I did try installing Firefox 4 beta but was put off by it and uninstalled immediately. Maybe that affected fast dial?
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 14:20Let us start with the admission I do not know what is causing this.
Especially as I cannot reproduce
What is the version of your Firefox Java plugin ?
Is there an AVG extension that is autoloading into Firefox.
Please try disabling. Maybe it loaded into your new Profile ?
Oh are you sure that you have the correct Version of Fast Dial in Addons.
I suppose if you wanted to be scientific, you could try loading 2.23b1 from AMO, you could also try loading an earlier Version of Firefox to see if either change things
My own feeling is that this will change nothing, but it would be interesting to see..
I used to always use AVG but gave up on it as it started interfering with Firefox.
Do you remember if you updated any AVG or other software recently
what Version of Fast Dial are you using.
Maybe try uninstalling and reinstalling Fast Dial with restart firefoxes.
Have you disabled Java somewhere ?
I do not think this is a Fast Dial bug.
But obviously something is causing it
As I cannot reproduce myself with the Firefox and Fast Dial Versions I am unable to research this for you, and in a way depend on you for feedback.
Have you any experience of the error console. That could also be another way of trying to understand what is happening.
Please also try making Fast Dial page Home please see here:
http://userlogos.org/node/6441
Look forward to hearing back from you...
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by rottingroom on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:15I have 2 java console addons. v6.0.20 and 6.0.21
I have tried rolling back to older versions of both firefox(3.5x) and fast dial(2.31) and neither have remedied this.
I did install the java jdk and it included mcAfree Secrurity software and I kept that on my computer for a brief period but I uninstalled that since I already have AVG.
I tried disabling AVG's safe search plug in and that fixed nothing.
I am running fast dial v2.32b2
Im sorry we are not getting to the bottom of this.
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:28Thanks for your help
I have tried rolling back to older versions of both firefox(3.5x) and fast dial(2.31) and neither have remedied this.
Good
Yes I thought that would not work.
I do not think that this was a bug related to a Firefox Version as you posted here (and on AMO.)
I have Java 6.0.21 and am not experiencing problems
running a little out of options here.
You have run in a new profile with no AVG extension loaded.
The only stone left unturned is AVG itself.
Did you check if all your bookmarks are in your Fast Dial Folder in Bookmarks menu?
and did you try making your Fast Dial folder home ?
to be scientific please set up the error console and then clear the console.
After clearing the console then refresh a cell and look again at the console.
And let me know of any errors that you see.
This may help us see what is happening.
This extension is helpful when using the error console
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1815
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by rottingroom on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 14:52Yes, there is a folder called Fast Dial in the Bookmarks Panel and Fast Dial is my folder home....
here is the error console message:
Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [nsIDOMHTMLCanvasElement.toDataURL]" nsresult: "0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)" location: "JS frame :: chrome://fastdial/content/snapshot.js :: anonymous :: line 194" data: no]
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:03Thanks for the error
This is the code in the snapshot java script file
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by rottingroom on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:07What am I supposed to do with that bit of code?
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by chiaroscuro on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:13What am I supposed to do with that bit of code?
Don't worry about it for the moment.
Line 194 was the line referred to in your error message
I am not a developer, but I am trying to fix this.
Please try the following:
Go to preferences general
Hit defaults
Restart firefox and then reset your preferences again.
edit: and then restart firefox again just to be sure
Re: thumbnails will not refresh with new images.
Submitted by rottingroom on Thu, 09/02/2010 - 15:17yup, that fixed it....
shame i gotta add all my prefs again but we got it working....
good job man.
If I'm not mistaken i do remember changing a preference that had something to with changing the background of a thumbnail from transparent to white.
I wanted to do that cause some thumbnails wouldn't display properly on my black background if the background of the thumbnail was transparent.
That didn't fix that issue tho, but that's a different issue.
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