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geo909

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Registered: 2008-09-07

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Thumbnails missing when choosing files from firefox

Hi all,

When I try to upload a photo somewhere online with firefox, I do not see thumbnails for some of my images in firefox's file chooser. Here is an example of a choice with a thumbnail:

and one without a thumbnail:

I searched around and I found this thread discussing this exact issue, with no solution being given.
In post #11 somebody says

The Firefox -generated instance of the GTK file chooser will only generate a preview for images with a longest-side dimension of 4096 pixels or less, regardless of file size. Hope that clears up the seemingly erratic behavior a little.

Does anybody have an idea for a workaround?

Thanks a lot.

EDIT: I found this patch in the gtk wiki. With this, I was able to see little tiny thumbnails in the the chooser's list view, however the big thumbnails on the right are still missing, so it's not of too much help.

Last edited by geo909 (2016-08-04 10:01:48)