We are embedding Gecko 1.3.1 in a C++ application to run on Windows and Mac. 
Our application leads the user through a series of HTML pages (around 30-50 
per session) some of which may contain GIF or JPG images. The pages come 
from a repository that may be on the local machine or may be on a network 
share.

Most of the time it works fine. One of our testers, however, reports 
occasionally seeing the image that indicates a missing image file. The 
symptom, however, is not consistent. A page that shows up with the missing 
image icon once may render correctly, with the image, the next time through 
the sequence. The "missing" image file is definitely present and in the 
expected folder.

We had several people try to reproduce the missing image bug on several 
machines yesterday without much success. It shows up infrequently but 
somewhat consistently on one machine, has been seen only once or twice on 
two other machines, and not at all elsewhere. We tried fast hardware, slow 
hardware, different OSs, and of course using both networked and local 
repositories. None of those variables much affected the results. We do note, 
however, the problem is more common when we run on Windows. It occurred only 
once on a Mac.

It's the kind of symptom you might expect if you were serving pages over the 
internet--which we are not--and encountering timeouts. Even when our pages 
render with a missing image image, however, they render within seconds. I 
assume the relevant timeout values in Gecko are longer than that.

The images are key pieces of content and we need to be sure they always 
appear. We'd be grateful for any suggestions in tracking down the cause or 
controlling the behavior. 


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