Re: TW / Firefox - can't upload images to github issues anymore (CORS failure)

Andrei Borzenkov <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Jun 2026 07:53:44 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.suse.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
26.06.2026 03:13, David C Rankin wrote:
> All,
> 
>     For about the last 90 days or so, I haven't been able to upload
> images when filing github issues to projects that request screenshots as
> part of the new-issue process.
> 
>     I originally just chocked it up to a github problem and didn't take
> the time to look further into it. Now, after about the 8th issue I can't
> include a screenshot to, I did search and try and find an answer, no luck.
> 
>     So I brought up the FF developer tools to look for errors, and I do
> get errors like:
> 
> Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading
> the remote resource at
> https://github-production-user-asset-6210df.s3.amazonaws.com/. (Reason:
> CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).
> 

According to

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Guides/CORS/Errors/CORSDidNotSucceed

it means that the request was not blocked but did not succeed.

> Uncaught AttachmentUploadError: App assets attachment upload failed:
> storage request.
>       o attachment-upload.ts:63
>       setTimeout handler*o attachment-upload.ts:62
>       process attachment-upload.ts:104
>       d batch-upload.ts:59
>       819435 file-attachment.ts:36
>       m index.js:96
>       attach index.js:164
>       p index.js:246
> Caused by: error { isTrusted: true, lengthComputable: false, loaded: 0,
> total: 0, eventPhase: 0, bubbles: false, cancelable: false, returnValue:
> true, defaultPrevented: false, composed: false }
> attachment-upload.ts:63:35
> 
> Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading
> the remote resource at https://api.github.com/_private/browser/errors.
> (Reason: CORS request did not succeed). Status code: (null).
> 
>     I tried disabling the tracker protection, no help. Does anybody know
> what setting in FF is causing this? Github is no help with its chatbot
> assessment other than to say, the browser wasn't able to send the file
> due to a CORS issue.
> 
>     I've tried creating exceptions for github.com and zendesk.github.com
> (what the chatbot said was used for upload), but no help either.
> 
>     I haven't yet disabled the ublock origins or noscript, but I'll test
> that, what I'm wondering is if there is some known setting that fixes this?
>