Hall Stevenson <hallstevenson@mindspring.com> [2002-08-24 18:27:56 -0500]: > * Bob Proulx (bob@proulx.com) [020824 17:16]: > > Problem: Those evil patent encumbered GIFs are not working in my > > freshly installed galeon / mozilla installation. > [...] > > Any clues? I am sure I am missing something very simple. > > galeon v1.2.5-1 requires libungif4g to work... This is a SID package > though. I'd have to believe the woody version won't be much different. > > I see gifs on websites just fine too. Thanks for that suggestion. And also the additional information that things were working for you. It turns out I did have libungif4g on my system and that was not the problem. It turns out that my assumptions about gifs not working were entirely wrong. I believe gifs work fine in galeon and mozilla. It was me that was broken. I decided to figure this out. I removed and copied and tried a bunch of stuff. By this time I knew it was something that was very trivial and yet I could not see the problem. Eventually I moved my home directory out of the way and things worked. Even though I had a new installation I had copied my home directory to the new machine. Which included settings in home .galeon directory. In fact the problem was so simple that I am very embarrassed and hate to admit the problem. I felt like cowering quietly and letting people forget that note. But just in case someone else does this same stupid thing perhaps this will help them out. I discovered that my problem was completely self inflicted. I really feel stupid about this one. [Settings] [Load images] [From current server only] Yep, that will do it. Only loads images from the current server. So if the image was PayPal and you were trying to buy something then nope, you would not see the image. I vaguely recall playing with that setting some weeks ago and then forgetting about it. However, except for not realizing that I had shot myself in the foot it did clean up a lot of those annoying banner ads. Thanks Bob
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