For some reason, avatars no longer display on my computer in IE6 on WinXp Service Pack 2 RC1. They show up in Mozilla though. Anyone else experiencing this??

Yep I get the same thing. Ever since I installed WinXP service pack 2 RC.

That's really odd! Oh, I bet because it's not getting the right MIME type from the webserver... most browsers (and IE, at least USED to...) look inside the stream to then figure out what it was (a gif, a jpg, etc.) but maybe because the file ends in .ava (not .jpg, etc.), it's confused. That sucks. I will try before-and-after on that if possible.

MS will be affecting a LOT of sites if that's the case, I think... bah.

By the way, I use Firefox (essentially, Mozilla) for everything except final site testing. So, you can bet the site always looks its BEST with that... just a suggestion (it's a wayyyy better browser anyhow, in my opinion.) You can download it for FREE here!

Cheers Ben.

I was using Opera - why anyone would still be regularly using IE is a bit of a mystery, I hate it - but I've now downloaded Firefox - it looks great, is easy to use, and seems a bit better accepted than Opera.

I need to set it up properly, but I think I'm gonna like it.

Just trying out Firefox now. Definetely better.

This was a comment on the Microsoft Newsgroups, if it offers any ideas...

Its not a bug, its because the content is not marked
correctly I just fixed the content so it was compliant
with a standard and voila.

Its mentioned in the SP2 fix documentation that was
released.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm trying to load a html content into IE created as
>IWebBrowser2 using IPersistStreamInit.Load.
>
>After XP SP2, the content is displayed as plain text.
>It seems IE has a problem to recognize the mime-type.
>Until SP2 the method has been OK.
>
>Have you already noticed this bug?
>

Tom said:

is that a recipe for meth?

It's not a bug - it's a feature - the MS mantra!

Ok, i tested it out on another computer and have narrowed down the problem somewhat. It's not necessarily WinXP SP2 thats causing it. I recently installed a download manager called FreshDownload. Immediately after installing it was when these problems occured. So I tried it on my computer at work, and the same problem happened there as well.

I tried uninstalling the program and removing all registry entries to it I could find, as well as reseting IE's default settings, and the problem is still occuring.

Bottom line, DONT install FreshDownload, it will screw your computer up LOL.

Now I gotta figure out how to get my system back to normal...


UPDATE: Removing SP2 fixed the problem. Although the site was displaying fine with SP2 until I installed FreshDownload. However, removing SP2 appears to have reset some things in IE6 that FreshDownload changed, that got it working properly again.
[This message was edited Mon Apr 12 10:32:27 2004 by Tom]

ben said:

Hey Ben, is Firefox so much different (better) then Firebird ?

AlfofMelmak said:

Firebird was renamed to Firefox due to legal reasons. It is the latest version of Firebird.