Wikipedia Images don't show up in browsers

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It's a weird issue with wikipedia which had left me frustrated. When I go to wikipedia, with different browsers ( IE8, Chrome3, Opera10 ) no image in the site will show up. Even right-clicking the image to ( show, save, open in new tab/window ) will return nothing except when open in new tab/window I'll get a black horizontal line across the page. All my browsing across the web goes flawlessly, and every image in every site show up normally except in the wikipedia site. I have win7 ultimate with all updates.

mantra

Posted 2010-01-07T21:24:44.243

Reputation: 41

2do you have ad block installed? – quest49 – 2010-01-07T21:50:56.517

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Are you able to open http://upload.wikimedia.org/favicon.ico ? It's possible the domain doesn't resolve for some reason

– Alex Jasmin – 2010-01-07T22:04:04.680

Answers

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Maybe there's something wrong with your hosts file? Open C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts with notepad. What does it contain?

Otherwise try a different DNS provider, like Google or OpenDNS. Run the GRC DNS benchmark utility and change your DNS provider. That might help you access the images.

Iain

Posted 2010-01-07T21:24:44.243

Reputation: 4 399

1I opened the "hosts" file with MS word and found two addresses: one is about adobe.com and the other is upload.wikimedia.org. I deleted both and saved the file. Then the problem was solved! – Tony B – 2015-07-12T01:28:55.863

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