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Insert Image Tool Freezing Screen

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This is an issue I've had since last year, although I had never felt the need to bring it up as I had assumed it affected a very limited number of users. You see, whenever I leave a "New Thread" or post editor open too long and I use the Insert Image tool, the Image tool box doesn't appear to load with the semi-transparent screen, leaving just the semi-transparent screen and rendering me unable to copy and paste my content into a new editor. I posted an example below to show you how the screen appears when the issue arises.
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While this is easily remedied by deleting the code below using the Inspect Element tool to recover my content, I would imagine that not everyone who runs into this issue will think of doing this.
Code:
<div tabindex="-1" style="position: fixed; z-index: 10000; top: 0px; left: 0px; opacity: 0.5; width: 1316px; height: 1065px; background-color: white;" class="cke_dialog_background_cover"></div>

This honestly isn't a major problem and it'll probably get fixed when the forum is migrated, but I figured I would at least make everyone aware of it.
 
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The same for me. It almost always is happening when I post an image and click it to edit it size and it freezes and I need to refresh the page and do it again.

One trick that I use is post the image as thumbnail, then I click to edit the post and enlarge the photo.

BTW I am using Firefox.
 
Which browser/OS are you currently using?
Ah, sorry, I forgot to include any specifications in my initial post.

So far, this has happened on the following browsers:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Microsoft Edge
And the following operating systems
  • Windows 10
  • Windows 8.1
  • Windows 8
  • Windows 7 Ultimate

The last time this happened was 2 days ago when I posted this guide and I was using Google Chrome on Windows 10.
 
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