links to image pages aren't opened in firefox 4b
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	• bzimport
	Feb 23 2011, 4:26 PM

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Author: sanderd17

Description:
The new beta version of firefox has a feature to open image links (links that end on *.png, *.jpg ...) as a fullscreen popup window.

The result is that links to images in wikimedia are opened as images but are in fact html pages.

Steps to reproduce:

In the current beta of firefox (4.0b11) go to e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_%28operating_system%29
click on the screenshot or any other wikipedia thumbnail.
you recieve a fullscreen black window and an alert with the message "Cannot load images!"

How can you open images? By copy pasting the link in the address bar or by right clicking on the link and open it in a new tab.

I just report this, if it is the fault of firefox not holding to the html standards, then this bug should be sent to firefox.

Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement

• bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 21 2014, 11:31 PM

• bzimport set Reference to bz27662.

• bzimport added a subscriber: Unknown Object (MLST).

Can't reproduce in FF40b11 on Windows.

sanderd17 wrote:

Then it is only a problem on the firefox version for Linux. I'm using ubuntu 10.10.

Do you think the problem is the fault of firefox or of wikimedia? Someone isn't keeping to the standards.

Our html and files didn't change, Firefox' interpretation of our files changed.

This problem needs to be reported to Firefox, not to Wikipedia/Wikimedia/MediaWiki.

Can't reproduce on Ubuntu 10.10 with the Firefox 4.0b11 I downloaded from mozilla.org. Check your plugins.

sanderd17 wrote:

I thought it was closed.

It was indeed one of my plugins. So I sent a mail to the plugin dev.

sanderd17 wrote:

It was a problem with the web slide show extension (I forgot I installed that).

Thanks for your help.