Ebay images will not load
Hello,
I recently made the following settings changes to Firefox and now find that images on certain sites like ebay will not load.
These are the following changes:
network.websocket.enabled=false dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled=false dom.battery.enabled=false browser.send_pings=false webgl.disabled=true browser.pocket.enabled=false media.peerconnection.enabled=false loop.enabled=false media.eme.enabled=false browser.beacen.enabled=false geo.enabled=false geo.wifi.logging.enabled=false beacon.enabled-false browser.safebrowsing.enabled=false browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled=false browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled=false device.sensors.enabled=false camera.control.face_detection.enabled=false camera.control.autofocus_moving_callback.enabled=false social.directories="" social.whitelist="" social.manifest.facebook="" social.remote-install.enabled=false social.toast-notifications.enabled=false
Would any of these or a combination of them cause the issue?
Thank you.
All Replies (3)
This might not be connected to your settings changes, because we've received many reports of this in recent hours.
If you click this link to a random eBay product photo:
https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/ZhgAAOSwOfBZ3X-S/s-l1600.jpg
Do you get this error:
An error occurred during a connection to i.ebayimg.com. Invalid OCSP signing certificate in OCSP response. Error code: SEC_ERROR_OCSP_INVALID_SIGNING_CERT
If so, that's why the loading of embedded images is silently failing. It seems to be affecting a number of sites that use the Akamai Content Distribution Network. I don't know how soon it will be cleared up.
As a temporary workaround, you can disable OCSP "stapling." With that change, instead of Firefox expecting sites to provide an OCSP certificate -- a verification that its certificate has not been revoked -- Firefox will query the service provider that signed the certificate. This is good for security but not the best arrangement for privacy, because the service provider knows a computer at your IP address is checking out that site. So after you finish using eBay, you can switch the setting back, or you could use a different browser for the time being.
(1) In a new tab, type or paste about:config in the address bar and press Enter/Return. Click the button promising to be careful or accepting the risk.
(2) In the search box above the list, type or paste ocsp and pause while the list is filtered
(3) Double-click the security.ssl.enable_ocsp_stapling preference to switch the value from true to false
Success?
Why these?
Avengement said
browser.safebrowsing.enabled=false browser.safebrowsing.downloads.enabled=false browser.safebrowsing.malware.enabled=false
Is it because you don't want to use any services from Google? Or does Firefox block an inconveniently large number of sites/downloads (you can bypass those blocks)?
See also: How does built-in Phishing and Malware Protection work?
It was an ebay specific issue which has now been resolved on their end.
I do not support google or any of their services. I do not contribute to data mining. Especially when it's part of a for profit business model.
Modified by Avengement