Images Are Not Loading In Mozilla Firefox – How to fix it

Mozilla Firefox always has some issues and the common problem is that the browser is not loading the images. It should be noted that this issue applies only to JPG, PNG, GIF format and it is not related to the video formats MPG, WMV and AVI. This guide will show you what to do if the images are not loading in Mozilla Firefox.

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What To Do If The Images Are Not Loading In Mozilla Firefox

Cookies and cache

First, you should try to clear all “cache” and “cookies” files. To do this:

Start Mozilla Firefox, click on the Main Menu button on the right side of the screen, and then select “History”.

Now you need to click on the “Clear Recent History” and in the drop-down list, select “Everything”. Click “Details” and put the tick on cache, cookies. Then click on “Clear Now” at the bottom of the opened window.

Website settings

If Firefox does not display images from a particular site, then you need to do the following:

Start a website (the one in which the images are not displayed) and click on the “Site Identification” (the “Earth” icon on the left next to the address bar). Click on the little arrow and then on “Read more”.

In the “Permissions” scroll down to “Load Images” and select “Allow”.

Then you can close the window with information about the page.

Other reasons

If after trying these two methods, Mozilla Firefox still can’t load the images, you should check other reasons:

Website on which you cannot see the images may not work properly or experiences difficulties. You can try to restart the site, or view it on another device.

There is a chance that you accidentally change the settings in the browser, which led to the fact that the images can’t load anymore. To solve this problem you need to reset all the settings:

You need to enter in the address bar «about:config», and then press the Enter button. After this, you may receive a message of this kind, “This might void your warranty,” you just need to click on the button “I’ll be careful, I promise”.  In the list to find the option that has the name browser.display.use_document_colors. It should be set to “True”. If it isn’t, you need to select “Reset”.

So we figured out what to do if Mozilla Firefox is not loading images. Now, on all your favorite sites the images should be properly displayed.

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