Bug#571062: iceweasel: picasa web albums - images not loading

[Mike Hommey]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2010 at 10:52:56PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> Package: iceweasel
> Version: 3.5.6-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> 
> Quoting verbatim my post on the picasa web forum:
> 
> <<
> For a couple of weeks now, I have had this intermittent but fairly
> frequent problem: when I load the Web Albums front page, some of the
> thumb pictures for my albums never load.  It's just 1, 2 or at most 3
> of my 12 albums, the rest are fine.  The browser's progress bar stops
> somewhere in the middle, and in the status bar it says something like
> 
> Transferring data from lh4.ggpht.com ..
> 
> where the lh4 is sometimes lh3 or lh5 as well.  Eventually the browser
> gives up and says Done, but the album thumbs stay only as gray
> squares.
> 
> Firefox/Iceweasel 3.5.6 on Debian squeeze. 
> >>
> 
> Of course, safe-mode doesn't make the slightest difference.
> 
> I am aware that this could be anything - the site itself (but then I'd
> expect to find similar complaints, which I don't), my kernel, my
> router or my ISP.  But unfortunately web technology left me in the
> dust with AJAX, so I have no clue how to diagnose this.

Try installing firebug, tamperdata or livehttpheaders. Any of these will
help you with what the browser sends and receives on the wire and when.

Mike