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Why do pages that consist solely of a jpg or png result in the message that the image cannot be displayed because it contains errors?

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Whenever I click on URL links to pages that consist solely of a jpeg or png, I get a text-only message 'the image cannot be displayed because it contains errors'. Yet if I copy the same URL and try it in IE, the image displays just fine. This has been happening for some time, thru several upgrades of Firefox.

Whenever I click on URL links to pages that consist solely of a jpeg or png, I get a text-only message 'the image cannot be displayed because it contains errors'. Yet if I copy the same URL and try it in IE, the image displays just fine. This has been happening for some time, thru several upgrades of Firefox.

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That is the default text that Firefox displays on a tab.
As soon as the image has loaded then that text is replaced by the image.

If you keep seeing that text then something is blocking images.

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