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Monday 26 August 2013

Temporary fix for Instagram’s photo viewer in Firefox


Earlier today I highlighted that you can fix the video playback on Vine if you are using the Firefox web browser. Playback is broken in the browser and until there is an official fix, it is necessary to make a couple of changes to the browser's configuration or grab the video file directly from Vine's source code.
Ghacks reader David replied in the thread about a similar issue that he experienced on Instagram. The photo viewer on the website does not work properly in Firefox. Everything appears normal at first when you open a user's page on the Ingragram website in the Firefox web browser.
You can click on a photo, but instead of displaying it in an overlay photo viewer on the same page, it opens it in a new tab in Firefox instead.
While that is bad enough, it also renders all future clicks on the user's page useless. When you go back, by closing the new tab or simply switching tabs without closing the new one, you will notice that clicks on photo thumbnails on the page do not display the photos in the photo viewer anymore.
The only option that you have is to reload the page, click on another photo, and repeat the process until you have viewed all that you wanted to view on the page.
That's not practicable. According to information on a Mozilla Support thread, it is caused by a script error on the Instagram website. The issue has been reported to Instagram and Mozilla, but nothing has been done about it since it was first reported on August, 11th. [Read more]


Source: ghacks.net