vertical bars over images in firefox

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 11:56 -0800, Mike Wright wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> When using firefox since fc6 (I skipped fc5) I've noticed that many 
> images, suchas .swf, now display as a large pair of vertical bars, 
> somewhat simalar to the insignia worn by U.S. Army captains, that may 
> appear alone or on top of some other background.
> 
> On really lousy sites where it's flash or nothing or where most of the 
> adverts are flash this is (IMO) just plain ugly and really annoying. 
> It's as if someone is threating "Use flash or else we'll destroy your 
> user experience".  If that's the case how about a little CSS ala "body 
> {display: none;}" and we wouldn't have to waste our time on sites like 
> that.  <-- me being facetious ;)   Whatever happened to "failing 
> gracefully", the mantra of web designers?
> 
> Does anybody know where these abuses have come from?  Are they from the 
> Mozilla project or is this something peculiar to fedora's spin of 
> firefox or perhaps something peculiar to fedora itself?

What kind of video setup do you have? Ric

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