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What is the matter with you, kid?
And now for something completely different. As of this evening, LJ appears to have ceased to display icons on either my entries or my friendlist. Not mine, not anybody else's, not in comments unless they're in the user's own style. I did a complete refresh on Firefox in case that was the problem and it wasn't. Has anyone (who is still using LJ) experienced this problem? If so, do you have any suggestions? In an ideal world, by morning this issue will have fixed itself and I can delete this post. We do not live in an ideal world. I'd love advice. Icons are important. This one should have a very cranky-looking Psholtii at the top of it.
[edit] Since it's started to come up in comments, I run Firefox 46.0.1 on Mac OS 10.6.8. The latter of these has not changed in years. (Please do not encourage me to solve any problems by updating my operating system; I have several technical reasons for holding on to this version.) Looking at Firefox's release history, I can't see that it's done anything in the last twenty-four hours. I am therefore assuming that the sudden non-display of my icons is a problem with LJ, but would appreciate correction if I have the wrong end of the hydra here. In the meantime, my journal continues to look very naked to me.
I hope I don't have to change the style. I have had Refried Paper since I started this journal in 2004 and I'm used to it.
[edit edit] Experimentally reverting to Firefox 45.0.2 on another computer with the same operating system, my icons become visible. Updating to Firefox 46.0.1, my icons disappear. I don't understand why this issue did not make itself obvious on April 26, 2016 according to the online release history, but there it is. I can see in the HTML for the page that the icons are present, just not displaying. So: toxic Firefox/LJ interaction?
[edit edit edit] It looks like an HTML compliance issue with LiveJournal. It's just showing up now in Firefox. This is almost certainly out of my control.
[edit] Since it's started to come up in comments, I run Firefox 46.0.1 on Mac OS 10.6.8. The latter of these has not changed in years. (Please do not encourage me to solve any problems by updating my operating system; I have several technical reasons for holding on to this version.) Looking at Firefox's release history, I can't see that it's done anything in the last twenty-four hours. I am therefore assuming that the sudden non-display of my icons is a problem with LJ, but would appreciate correction if I have the wrong end of the hydra here. In the meantime, my journal continues to look very naked to me.
I hope I don't have to change the style. I have had Refried Paper since I started this journal in 2004 and I'm used to it.
[edit edit] Experimentally reverting to Firefox 45.0.2 on another computer with the same operating system, my icons become visible. Updating to Firefox 46.0.1, my icons disappear. I don't understand why this issue did not make itself obvious on April 26, 2016 according to the online release history, but there it is. I can see in the HTML for the page that the icons are present, just not displaying. So: toxic Firefox/LJ interaction?
[edit edit edit] It looks like an HTML compliance issue with LiveJournal. It's just showing up now in Firefox. This is almost certainly out of my control.
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Hurrah!
Same version of FF here. I'm not having problems; it's an LJ issue.
That's weird. Are you viewing my journal in my style or yours?
I guess it could be an LJ style issue, but when some anomaly like that hits me, I clear cache, delete unnecessary cookies, check extensions for updates.
I started by clearing my entire browser history, cache and cookies included. It didn't solve the problem. I did a formal refresh on Firefox, which I had never done before, just in case that would help. Ditto. After that I asked the internet.
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(I view all LJ pages in my own style, as I cannot bear jumping in and out of the many styles, many of which are of dubious visual utility, on my friends page. The effect is of literary cacophony.)
If it were a Firefox issue, it would be affecting more people. If it were a higher-up LJ issue affecting icons, or something, others would be seeing it. As annoying as Firefox can be, I think it's not FF this time.
I think your style is broken. It does happen on LJ, I have seen it myself before. Unfortunately their maintenance is not very responsive, but you should file a support request anyway to go on record that the style is broken. Maybe it can be trivially fixed and someone will do that.
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Would you mind telling me what you see when you look at it in mine?
(I view all LJ pages in my own style, as I cannot bear jumping in and out of the many styles, many of which are of dubious visual utility, on my friends page. The effect is of literary cacophony.)
I have my friendlist set to my own style, but otherwise I interact with other people's journals in their own style. Since many other people use your method, however, it's taken me forever to get feedback on what my journal actually looks like, unfiltered, from outside.
Unfortunately their maintenance is not very responsive, but you should file a support request anyway to go on record that the style is broken. Maybe it can be trivially fixed and someone will do that.
I have updated my support request with the new information.
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I just looked: my Firefox is 45.0.2! With a note that it will update when I restart Firefox. Now, I do recall seeing in the past week or so a remark on a Firefox update thingy that informed me that Firefox will soon no longer be supporting my operating system and that I should update it (NOT LIKELY, Firefox coders: at this point, anyone who can update has done so). Firefox has a habit of popping such notices in my face when I am doing something else, so I have a habit of dismissing them as fast as I can, barely-noted. Next time FF freezes and I restart it, I'm screwed. It would be nice if they didn't issue new versions every week or ten days.
So I am in fact not running 46, and that is why when I view your LJ while logged-out, the icons appear correctly.
However, this is still strange and annoying behavior, to suddenly stop loading an ordinary set of images.
(If my car crashed and required updates to function as often as the software I use does, it wouldn't be legal to own.)
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Seriously.
Next time FF freezes and I restart it, I'm screwed.
You can arrest this process by going to Firefox Preferences: Advanced: Update and then selecting "Check for updates, but let me choose whether to install them" rather than "Automatically install updates (recommended: improved security)."
However, this is still strange and annoying behavior, to suddenly stop loading an ordinary set of images.
Yes. The fault seems to be on LJ's side in that the HTML used in various journal styles is massively no longer standards-compliant, but it only seems to have become perceptible after the latest Firefox update. (I don't know why the time lag: I think there's an interacting combination of issues here. I shut my computer down every night and restart it in the morning, so it should have installed the new update promptly.) I can look at each page's HTML and see that the icons are there and should be displaying. I just can't make them show.