We are investigating what seems to be a Firefox bug relating to avatars being cached on disk and then retrieved by a later request. Reported to Firefox as: 1899184 - Firefox is sometimes unable to load/render previously cached images ASSIGNED (jeremy) in GeckoView - General. Last upda…

Interesting. OK, if you have any further details or reproduction steps, feel free to post them here. [image] piffy: my site uses bunny.net as a cdn :face_with_raised_eyebrow: :microscope: [The image shows an adorable fluffy bunny with droopy ears and distinctive dark fur patches on its …

[image] Michael Brown: loading="lazy" This to me feels like our next port of call @david , a site setting that disables this to see if it has any impact.

Since @supermathie has a vague repro on a static page, perhaps we try creating a version of that without loading="lazy"? Much easier than modifying Discourse to do it. Is that something you could try @supermathie ?

I wouldn’t use any other CDN! :rabbit2:

I’ve been reloading them off and on, and just now replicated the problem by loading the lazy page (worked) then the non-lazy page (failed): [image] Unfortunately, Firefox seemed to completely reload assets on reload (Disable Cache is not set) with devtools open, but… this is odd: [image] The u…

Today: I reloaded the page with lazy, and it loaded fine: [image] I then loaded the page without lazy, and: [image] :person_shrugging:

So I guess that means it’s unlikely lazy= is the cause of the issue? At least that’s one thing ruled out :sweat_smile:

Firefox is sometimes unable to load/render previously cached images (avatars)

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piffy May 27, 2024, 7:02pm 2

I’ve seen this myself on Firefox. Don’t know if it’s relevant at all but my site uses bunny.net as a cdn

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Firefox is sometimes unable to load/render previously cached images (avatars)

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