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Images disappearing

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I have a very strange problem. Whenever I load an image heavy page, sometimes the images disappear. I don't even know if the images loaded or not. I have Verizon Fios with 50MB up/down so images aren't a problem. This only started happening recently. Even stranger is that if I go to page with this issue, and then I click on a tab for another website, the images disappear on those websites too! The images in the previous website already fully loaded, so I know it's not a connection issue.

I have a very strange problem. Whenever I load an image heavy page, sometimes the images disappear. I don't even know if the images loaded or not. I have Verizon Fios with 50MB up/down so images aren't a problem. This only started happening recently. Even stranger is that if I go to page with this issue, and then I click on a tab for another website, the images disappear on those websites too! The images in the previous website already fully loaded, so I know it's not a connection issue.

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Oh, I forgot to mention, the images that don't show up, the page is just blank. If I refresh the page, the images might come up. I know there are images in those posts because it's a message board and the thread is specifically about posting images.

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More information. The images are mainly animated gifs.

The link below contains a lot of images of creepy crawly insects. http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1032823&page=2

When this weird glitch happens, sometimes the gifs don't show up, or completely stop loading. If I click on another tab like facebook, my already loaded images all come up blank. Happens with youtube as well.

Again, that facebook image I loaded was already fully loaded when I switched to another tab.

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Did you make sure that your security software isn't causing this issue?

Boot the computer in Windows Safe Mode with network support (press F8 on the boot screen) as a test.

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I have Avast Anti-Virus, but I've been using that for years and years. I'll give your advice a try and report back.