Waterfox: waterfox can't display images with div and a elements

[vesselict]

I have problems with latest version on both windows and linux of displaying images on sites without <img /> element but with<div> and <a>elements ...

On firefox everything works just fine.

[laniakea64]

latest version

56.2.12 or 68.0a2?

sites without <img /> element but with<div> and <a>elements ...

Could you please share some example links?

[vesselict]

sure..
https://www.insomnia.gr/classifieds/category/68-motorola/

56.2.12 I had this problem on older versions too.

[laniakea64]

I see the same issue here in Waterfox 56.2.12, new profile. Works fine in Waterfox 68.0a2 in my main profile.

So far I was unable to figure out why it isn't working in 56.2.12. There are no related errors in the console, and setting user-agent override of Firefox 60 or Firefox 68 didn't help.

That site is using a standard method of 'lazy loading images', i.e. the images should load only when you scroll them into view, so I would suspect this breakage is not isolated to the one site.

[colvacdir]

As of version 56.2.14, this problem still exists. Has any progress been made on what's causing the issue and if it will be fixed in a future version?

I tested the sample URL mentioned above with a couple of similar browsers, Firefox ESR 52.9.0 and TenFourFox FPR 16, and it works fine with both of those, which indicates it's specifically tied to Waterfox.

[hawkeye116477]

It seems that images are loaded by https://cdn2.insomnia.gr/uploads/javascript_global/root_framework.js.76eb380d05b2cd352f3268aa6cf46ad8.js. It uses data-background-src to apply background to css. That's fixed on FF 57.

[micokeman]

I also noticed that this site deosn't work on Waterfox version 56.2.14

https://www.mlb.com/standings#wildCardSubNav

[grahamperrin]

Meta, tracking: #538

@micokeman FYI there's related discussion at mlb.com Banner Rendering Issues. : waterfox

[hawkeye116477]

Mozregression result:

• Last bad: Firefox v57.0a1 (2017-09-18)
• First good: Firefox v57.01 (2017-09-19)

Pushlog: https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=42151fcd6cfc216d147730d0f2c6a2acd52d22fd&tochange=a0eb21bf55e1c1ae0ba311e6f2273da05c712799

I tested the sample URL mentioned above with a couple of similar browsers, Firefox ESR 52.9.0 and TenFourFox FPR 16, and it works fine with both of those, which indicates it's specifically tied to Waterfox.
This is not entirely true, seems that was working fine on FF 52, but they broke it on next versions, removed something which was needed and seems that's the fix => https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1399605 (they restored that condition).

[hawkeye116477]

@vesselict If problem with insomnia.gr is fixed, then you can close issue :smile:.