darkeningskies

Problem tracked down – for whatever reason, it was Kaspersky (the AV that happened to be run on all those PCs, including the ones that weren’t mine). Kaspersky doesn’t like WordPress-generated thumbnails.

I’ve tried it on Vista 64, Vista 32, XP 32 (at work, I have nothing to do with that PC at all so it is unlikely to be a setting there) and XP 32 (in VMWare Fusion on my MacBook).

I’m bemused. The site isn’t throwing up errors in Firefox.

I’ve tried it on work PCs – I’ve definitely not set up anything on those. Maybe it’s some crazy localisation issue.

It may be that some other people can see those thumbnails fine, but I can’t see them across multiple different PCs with different browsers (including one at my place of work).

Besides which I don’t know of any issue that would case images not to display properly only on certain PCs that is likely to be widespread.

I tried a couple of those plugins, just to check, and still no joy. If I disable images, it shows the image boxes (so those are loading in fine). If I click an image, I see the full image in the Lightbox. It’s just the thumbnails.

Yes, they do – admittedly I don’t read many blogs (that I know are specifically WordPress ones) but I’m pretty sure I’d notice missing pictures.

I’ve deleted caches and this is happening on two separate PCs across multiple browsers. It is not a browser cache issue. It might be something to do with my installations of Vista or my anti-virus or some other software on both computers, but it is not the cache.

Edit: even tried on the virtual machine I run in VMWare Fusion and it doesn’t show.

So for me, the MacBook running OS X 10.5 shows the pictures on any browser. The MacBook running Windows XP does not show the pictures on any browser. Two different desktop PCs (both with decent specs, 2 and 4 gigs ram etc) running Vista 32 and 64 respectively, can’t see the pictures on any browser.