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Old 18th Nov 2020, 7:31 pm   #21
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No problem here with W10 Build 1909 and Brave 1.16.75 (Based on Chromium)
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Old 18th Nov 2020, 7:37 pm   #22
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Same issue for a week or so.
On the specified thread, the pictures only step through the sequence the first time round.
Chome on windows 7 64 bit.

EDIT: Same with Opera but works normally with Firefox
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Old 18th Nov 2020, 8:04 pm   #23
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I suspect with the dated vBulletin system here we will gradually start to see more of these little niggles as browsers etc are updated. Version 3.x of vBulletin is no longer developed so the issues are unlikely to be sorted.
Also, I'd say they are browser issues. That's a real problem with a monoculture (chrome/chromium) just as we had during the IE5/6 era.

The best solution would be to use Firefox for all browsing. Both for this particular problem and to prevent webdevelopers from developing for a single rendering engine since everyone uses Chromium anyway.

I use both a pre-chromium version of Opera, which renders most pages surprisingly well, and Firefox for those pages it doesn't want to render.
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I have just chosen a thread with image attachments, https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...d.php?t=173210, which was the first in Success Stories.
I tried StationX's example on my Version 86.0.4240.198 (Official Build) (64-bit) Chrome and in worked fine so I tried it with my own recent thread (that I knew failed) and it appeared to work correctly too but then I realised that I was stepping through the images quickly but if I took my time then it failed.

That said, I can't induce failure on StationX's even slowly stepped.

Trying my own thread if I select the first image and hit next it exits the images. But trying again it works correctly! I think it's just unpredictable.

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Old 18th Nov 2020, 10:46 pm   #25
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It's very consistent for me. You can cycle round the images to your heart's content so long as you keep the image window open. Once you close the image window you can only view one image before the image window closes of its own volition. Refreshing the page resets things.
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Another with no trouble to report on Firefox. Personally I avoid Chrome/Google as much as I can because of all that data scraping (sounds dirty, doesn't it?) and haven't had any trouble in any forum with Firefox even with Ghostery and various other addons of similar types.

If the forum software needs to be changed, a point in Google's favour is that the search bar at the top here has far better results than other fora I frequent when trying to search threads. Do try to keep a good search function, whatever means provides it!
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Old 19th Nov 2020, 9:37 am   #27
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In the short term, if it is too problematic, I can switch off the "lightbox" option which would mean that image attachments would always open in new tabs, rather than on top of teh page with the black backgrould. However that would probably be worse for many people than the current niggle.
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I would say don't change anything.

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Old 19th Nov 2020, 1:59 pm   #29
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Likewise,

It doesn't really make sense to change the Forum to suit what looks to be
a problem in Chrome/Chromium.

Maybe the problem might go away in the next version?


Surely the simplest solution for now is to just use Firefox, since it doesn't appear to
have this problem.




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Old 19th Nov 2020, 2:51 pm   #30
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This bug does appear to affect all browsers which use the Chromium codebase, which is an awful lot nowadays. I've just tried Amazon Silk, the default browser on Kindle Fire tablets, and that is affected.

Personally I don't find it a serious problem though.
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Old 19th Nov 2020, 2:58 pm   #31
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It happens on my cheapo Vodafone mobile phone using Android and Chrome. Not a big issue for me though.

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Old 19th Nov 2020, 3:42 pm   #32
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Strangely enough, I can't reproduce this problem on Edge.
Edge seems to work fine for me.

However Opera does exactly what others have reported.

I'm running Win 7 on this PC.
I have Firefox, Opera and Edge installed, so I thought I would try out this problem
people are having.

I use Firefox 99% of the time, on Linux, and Windows when I use it.
I use Opera occationally which is why I have it installed.

Edge was forced onto my machine with a recent Windows 7 Update.
You know, the ones they are not doing for Win 7 anymore!


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Yes, it started happening to me, probably a month or so back. Quite annoying, but when you think about it (logically), when you've looked at a picture once, why would you then want to go and look at it for a second time? Yes, I know, most of us DO want to!
As of yesterday (well that's when I noticed it) this problem has now resolved itself (for me anyway) and pictures can now be clicked next and next and back again as many times as thought necessary - no idea what's changed...a browser update behind the scenes perhaps?
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