In <news:qkednqcd49ujpbbonz2dnuvz_oidn...@mozilla.org>,
cmcadams <c...@invalid.net> wrote:

> David E. Ross wrote:
> > On 3/20/2014 11:18 AM, cmcadams wrote:  
> >> Going on several Gawker Media sites (eg: lifehacker.com,
> >> gizmodo.com), pictures are refusing to load. If I right click in
> >> SM to view a missing picture I get an error page saying "Unknown
> >> Protocol / chomp is not a registered protocol".
> >>
> >> This in: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101
> >> Firefox/27.0 SeaMonkey/2.24
> >>
> >> Adblock on or off makes no diff. IE says the page has errors.
> >> w3c.org intimates that both sites are crap. None of which explains
> >> chomp... 
> >
> > Windows 7 (x64)
> > SeaMonkey 2.25
> >
> > I went to <http://gizmodo.com/> and had no problem seeing the
> > thumbnail photos and the full-size photos.  However, that require
> > me to change my image preference from "Only load images that come
> > from the originating server" to "Load all images".
> >  
> 
> That's it.
> 
> I've had a chance to try lifehacker on different platforms. The site
> renders in IE (on separate machines, I didn't play with settings)
> visibly the same as it does under iOS. FF 20 x64 in Linux renders it
> "browser fashion" with visible errors (a truncated left column),
> while SM 2.24 in Linux with "all pictures" enabled renders it what
> I'll presume to presume is perfectly. Versatile websites, infinitely
> variable! Chomp will remain a mystery.

It looks like those sites try to use chomp as a fallback in case images
otherwise fail to load.  I'm far from sure about that, though, as the
page source isn't easy to read.
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