I am not sure when it first started but I would click on a link and get the complete url and a message saying: “image cannot be displayed because it contains errors.”
If I did not hit the stop or halt button on Firefox my computer would do a complete lock up and I would have to hit the power button to re-boot the computer.
I just found out the problem is Firefox. I can see the links with IE.
I did some more searching on the Internet and someone said the problem was he Skype add on for Foxfire. I removed the Skype extention for Firefox 2.2.0.80 and the problem was fixed.
“I recently ran into the error message “The image [...] cannot be displayed, because it contains errors” twice in the last day and I was wondering if it was related to my new computer or a coincidence because I never encountered that error message in Firefox before. Internet Explorer 7 is displaying the images fine and I have yet to install Opera 9.5 to test it with that browser as well but I suspect it will render it fine.
For anyone who wants to test the images in their browser, they are here and here. I was not able to come up with a solution yet, the second image was displaying fine after a few tries but it seems to be caught in an endless loading loop. The image is displayed completely but the loading bar is still loading something, not sure what it is. Saving the images and viewing them in Windows turns out to be working correctly.
A quick research seems to suggest that those images have been saved using CMYK encoding and not the usual RGB encoding. It turns out that Firefox is having problems displaying images that have been encoded this way and cannot display them properly, hence the error message The image [...] cannot be displayed, because it contains errors when trying to load such an image.”
The above is from gHacks.net
