"Aww Snap!!", Photo Links Are Broken

Try deactivating all plugins. If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the Twenty Fifteen theme to rule-out a theme-specific issue (theme functions can interfere like plugins).

Hmmm…
Okay I just confirmed that I don’t have any currently enabled extensions; and I also tested the High End, 2014, 2013, and 2012 themes (the 2015 theme was my current theme already), and the problem presented equally in all of these themes.

Any other steps to try?

You have no active plugins on your blog? I see that some of your images are going through Photon, part of Jetpack, a plugin.

Oh, my bad. I initially thought you meant to deactivate all Google Extensions.

Okay so I tried deactivating all of the wordpress plugins in my blog, and reactivating them one by one, each time then trying to reload two of the problem pages; and in all cases the problem persisted.

What to try next?

Thank you

Was the problem there with *all* plugins *deactivated*?

Yes, I had the problem with no active plugins, as well as with each individual plugin as the only active one.

Ok, the “Aww Snap” error is actually part of Chrome.

Do you see anything different with another browser, like Firefox?

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/

You know, I hadn’t tried that. But I just tried it now, and the posts all display fine in Firefox.

This does beg the question, though: What do I do about this, when half the world is using Google Chrome as their primary browser?

That is indeed a great question.

Can you paste the HTML contents of the post here?

Copy from your editor’s Text tab, and when pasting it here, use the “code” button above.

Sure, here it is:

[caption id="attachment_2994" align="alignnone" width="3108"]<a href="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMGP38061.jpg"><img class="wp-image-2994 size-full" style="border: 3px solid #000000;" src="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/IMGP38061.jpg" alt="Look, Ma- no brains!! (photo by D. Speredelozzi)" width="3108" height="2224" /></a> Look, Ma- no brains!!<br /> (photo by D. Speredelozzi)[/caption]

Nothing for a mother to worry about <em>here</em>.

[caption id="attachment_2995" align="alignnone" width="4000"]<a href="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rah51.jpg"><img class="wp-image-2995 size-full" style="border: 3px solid #000000;" src="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rah51.jpg" alt="The ruins of the 120-year-old Sutro Baths, far out in the northwesternmost corner of San Francisco. (photo by D. Speredelozzi)" width="4000" height="3000" /></a> The ruins of the 120-year-old Sutro Baths, far out in the northwesternmost corner of San Francisco.<br /> (photo by D. Speredelozzi)[/caption]

They call them <a href="https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/King-tides-block-roads-cause-flooding-in-Marin-5973786.php" target="_blank">King Tides</a>; and for about three days each year, they hurl the ocean?harder and higher against the coastline than at any other time.

[video width="1920" height="1080" mp4="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/MVI_4160.mp4"][/video]

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I made my way down to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cliff_House,_San_Francisco" target="_blank">Cliff House</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sutro_Baths" target="_blank">Sutro Baths</a>?this morning, arriving about a half an hour after the peak high tide.

[caption id="attachment_2996" align="alignnone" width="4000"]<a href="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rah22.jpg"><img class="wp-image-2996 size-full" style="border: 3px solid #000000;" src="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rah22.jpg" alt="The beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real. (photo by D. Speredelozzi)" width="4000" height="3000" /></a> The beach is a place where a man can feel he's the only soul in the world that's real.<br /> (photo by D. Speredelozzi)[/caption]

There sure was a lot of water being tossed about - all the more noteworthy when you consider?that this was a day with <em>no</em> wind and no other aerial, aquatic, or tectonic upsets that might stir the soup up that much more.

[caption id="attachment_2989" align="alignnone" width="4000"]<a href="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rah11.jpg"><img class="wp-image-2989 size-full" style="border: 3px solid #000000;" src="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rah11.jpg" alt="Let the tide in, and set, me free.   Set me freeee!! (photo by D. Speredelozzi)" width="4000" height="3000" /></a> Let the tide in, and set, me free.<br /> Set me freeee!!<br /> (photo by D. Speredelozzi)[/caption]

Standing in a spot where I've stood and stayed dry <em>many</em> times before, I got myself soaked.

[caption id="attachment_2997" align="alignnone" width="4000"]<a href="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rah31.jpg"><img class="wp-image-2997 size-full" style="border: 3px solid #000000;" src="https://www.deekadelic.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/rah31.jpg" alt="Yeah, I've got your King of Tides right here! Take that, Lowenstein! (photo by D. Speredelozzi)" width="4000" height="3000" /></a> Yeah, I've got your King of Tides right here!<br /> Take that, Lowenstein!<br /> (photo by D. Speredelozzi)[/caption]

I'll tell ya, it was touch-and-go with the camera triage for a little while there.

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I think the problem might be the video size. How does it work out if you go for 640×480 instead?

I tried taking the video out entirely, and the problem still persisted. In fact, now the problem has spread to other posts, including the most recent one, which doesn’t even have any videos in it.

This is bizarre, and maddening.

Hm, that one still works for me. Perhaps there’s something in your browser?

What version of Chrome are you running?

Interesting, https://www.deekadelic.com/2014/12/23/no-talkin-man-all-action/ is also working for me in Chrome now too.

Chrome is so weird. Before and during the life of this thread, I checked several times and confirmed that my Chrome was fully up-to-date and running the latest version; so I had dismissed the idea that out-dated Chrome could be the problem.

Then, after reading that you guys were not having problems viewing the post(s) in question, I went and re-ran the Chrome update, figuring it might overwrite the existing installation. And apparently it did, because now the problem is gone!

Lately Google and Chrome have both been buggy and unreliable; but at least the problem proved fixable. Thanks for your attention to this, guys.

One last question though: were you guys at any point experiencing the “Aww, snap” nonsense when trying to view any of my blog posts, or did it always look fine on your browsers?