Well I just ran into an interesting problem. For some reason my images were failing to be displayed in Firefox, no problem in Safari, no problem in IE. The images were standard jpg images. I checked my code for any errors, mistypes, or logic problems, but nothing was found. I opened the image in Photoshop and tried re saving over the image to see if it was corrupted during the save, still, nothing.
After searching around forever, I find one anonymous side-comment in a forum saying “I know Firefox doesn’t like CMYK images but that’s not it.”I look into it, sure enough I check the image mode in Photoshop, and it’s CMYK, I convert to RGB, and low and behold, it worked.
In summary: Firefox hates CMYK.
3 Responses to “Firefox: Your image has errors and cannot be displayed.”
I’ve run into that too, I was staring at my code going, well it’s not here? I replaced the image (with something I now know to be RGB) and it worked which really confused me for quite awhile. Have you seen the new Safari webkit? 2.5 times faster then the current Safari build(on a JavaScript test page), and thats already miles ahead of Firefox.
I saw that article on Techmeme today, it is damn fast!
Seems it’s still a little buggy for me though, when I loaded up Gmail, it said that I needed a more feature rich browser and displayed it in the HTML version.
Nonetheless it’s cool to see how speedy a browser can be, can’t wait till they get it to final release.
In addition to the CMYK issue, there seems to be a bug going around lately with Firefox and the Skype extension causing this error. Uninstalling the Skype extension may fix the issue.
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