Blue Lego with question mark showing up for all my attachments and images
Something happened. I don't know if it was from installing the new Adobe flash. Now all my jpegs, pngs, file attachments show up as blue legos with a ?. But stuff form Amazon, eBay have images showing. same goes for jpegs sent to me from friends. what happened?
I have been experiencing the same issues. So far, I have tried:
1. Uninstall Flash with the Uninstaller supplied on Adobe's website. Reinstall Flash. _Did not work_.
2. Uninstall Flash with the Uninstaller supplied on Adobe's website. Delete the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.quicktime.plugin.preferences.plist. Reinstall Flash. _Did not work_.
3. The suggestions posted on MacFixIt at: http://www.macfixit.com/article.php?story=20071204103141963. _Did not work_. In fact, on my Mac there is not a "application/x-shockwave-flash" entry shown under "WebPluginMIMETypes." It might be that it should be there, but its not. If its needed, I don't know how to get it there. Even reinstalls of Flash Player don't put it there. (I did not try fix #3 because I don't want to break Quicktime).
Basically, I have tried everything I can find and still am not able to fix this issue in Safari. It works ok in Firefox, but not always. Sometimes I get a blank box or two in Firefox where a picture should be. I especially have this issue when using Facebook.
Seem like many others are running into these issues. I really wish Apple and Adobe would get their act together on things. I am fairly new to Macs and I'm beginning to believe with all the quirks and bugs that Apple has shown me since I've been running Leopard, that Macs are not really much better than PCs. The user experience is better, but in terms of stability, not much better.
If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm all ears.
iMac Aluminum
Mac OS X 10.5
Safari 3.0.4 (5523.10.6)
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