Title: Ominous image loading problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Ominous image loading problem

 *  Resolved [ccpetersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccpetersen/)
 * (@ccpetersen)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ominous-image-loading-problem/)
 * Okay, so this morning I turned on my computer, and loaded firefox and firefox
   had automatically updated itself. I’m now running Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows
   NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.11) Gecko/2009060215 Firefox/3.0.11 on a windows xp machine.
   Using WordPress 2.7.1.
 * Except for this last minor upgrade of FF, nothing’s changed on my wordpress blog(
   [http://www.thespacewriter.com/wp](http://www.thespacewriter.com/wp)).
 * So, I decide to write an entry. Again, no problems. Then I decide to use (in 
   the admin panel) in visual mode, the little icon to add an image. I click on 
   that, and firefox blows up. I fire up a new fresh firefox instance, log in to
   wp, get back to my entry, try to add an image the same way, it blows up again.
   This has got to be coincidental with the upgrade in firefox, but I can’t figure
   out what it would have changed that would cause FF to blow up. And by blow up,
   I mean, it crashes.
 * I haven’t yet tried this with IE; I’m in the middle of moving and dont’ have 
   a lot of time to futz around with this, but wonder if anybody else has run into
   this problem with the visual editor, clicking on “load a pic” icon and having
   FF blow up.
 * And, no, I’m not upgrade to WP 2.8 until the problem reports die down; bad enough
   that this visual editor thing is blowing up in 2.7.1 I don’t need extra headaches
   right now.

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 *  Thread Starter [ccpetersen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccpetersen/)
 * (@ccpetersen)
 * [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ominous-image-loading-problem/#post-1107235)
 * Okay, so it looks like this is a google gears problem. I’ve disabled it and the
   admin panel seems to work for now. Does anybody know how to totally get rid of
   gears from FF? The “uninstill” option is greyed out.

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 * Last activity: [17 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ominous-image-loading-problem/#post-1107235)
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