I didn't understand how the crop image thing worked because the image didn't change. (the little squares didn't appear)...
My default security settings got restored again recently (that you windows!)....and that re-enabled dom.disable_image_src_set (set it to true) --if you are using
FF, try it (if you don't have 'browser.preferences.instantapply' set to true, you'll have to exit and re-enter FF before changes to settings (URL 'about:config' in the address bar) will apply, but if you have that (brsr.pref.insntaplly) set, you should be able to duplicate the problem immediately.....
I didn't have a profile picture to try to use -- because uploading a profile picture required I be able to get through the crop point. That, required selecting an area displayed by changing the image to one with the 4 'select-boundary' squares and the lines between them "overlaying" your image -- the overlay effect being accomplished by recreating by altering the original image and replace it with one that had the crop effect overlaying it and dynamically changing as you moved the left mouse button (sorry, right mouse button wasn't the issue... it was my javascript dom priviledges getting reset to my previous default settings (some java script permissions thing that disallows sites from accessing various features like removing scrollbars, removing toolbars, raising/lowering windows, resizing them and the such -- one of those options is the image_src_set -- and when the options were reset to "secure", it disabled them all including that one -- which I NORMALLY, have enabled (or alot of things on alot of sites don't work in similar ways).
I run win7 w/a profile, and it must have happened a week ago when I let my profile get synced with my server (I normally unplug my system from the network during login/logoff) so win7 won't autoupdate my profile -- because 2 "companies" don't follow windows guidelines and store HUGE amounts of file data in your roaming profile that in 1 case
(thunderbird using IMAP duplicates a remote IMAP store and copies it into a local database stored in the users roaming profile by starting in TB3, because, Moz claims, it's necessary for their indexing to wok, and didn't put in code to use IMAP's search features, because most users used POP or web mail «or, for corp users, Exchange, which TB usually is configed to work in POP mode, because MS keeps breaking Outlook's IMAP compatibility, (they claim because of low use, but really because it's the only serious competitor to Exchange ; 1st broken in an Office 2k update, fixed in OfficeXP, but has been rebroken and refixed and rebroken a few times -- last I heard was another usability problem in O2010) »
OR,, in the other case should be stored in a shared public directory
Adobe downloads 1.5-2GB of Help files for their suite products into the users local app dir. Attempts to get them to change this to a share public directory have been ignored as they regard doing so as as tied to DRM for their product line -- which breaks on a regular basis on my machine w/their products)
Those cause my profile sync time to be inordinately long -- logout taking up to 45 minutes, and login taking 10-15, vs. ~ 5 + <1 (logout+login) w/o those two. So I only sync w/ the server 'infrequently', and that doesn't always go reliably -- soemtimes resetting options to default states or causing extensions in TB to think they've "just been installed, thus reinitializing themselves)...
It got more complicated to explain the chain of "becauses" than most people want to read years ago, and as they continue to break things, other issues get built on top of the original reasons, creating more arcane issues like this one.
Sorry for the hassles -- but me re-going through the image download process and your telling me right click wasn't needed lead me to remember that security setting -- I was like "ahh... I wonder if it is that image security setting...if it's been turned back on... I just profile synced last week...and.... etc."...
People often lose patience w/me because I stupidly report breakages when software violates protocols and keep developing work-arounds, which also get subject to breakage (people ask "well why did you do it that way?"... and then going into the nested reasonings ... they just don't want to hear it and it's all my issue... *sigh*...
I hate it when there is so little competition in fields that vendors feel free to violate standards because "as they are the industry leader, they feel they have a right to be setting the standard"....*cough*...
I haven't finished uploading the images, but I think it should work now...
p.s. - Thanks again for the pompts that led me to get it fixed!
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. The avatar's OK as it's too small to see, but for the profile image some editing is required before we'll approve it.
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