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 |
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| 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?
>