Description: Using Firefox 136.0.1 (64bit), since this morning about 11am South African time, when I upload obs and click on the search button to ID, the suggestion box is a drop down list with the same recommendations for everything. It does not matter whether it is a plant, insect, fungi, leaves, flowers the suggestion list is always: Spotted eagle owl, common eagle ray, sea sparkle, …, common bark spider. The screenshot is of an African Veined White I uploaded yesterday, which yesterday had the correct suggestions, but today I get the gibberish list. Same browser, same laptop, same obs.
I cleared cookies and history and restarted the browser with no change to the outcome. I tried a Firefox private window and get the same result.
The suggestion dropdown works perfectly correct in Edge as well as the Android app. I would honestly prefer to use Firefox though.
As @pisum said, it’s probably due to something int he photos’ file names or metadata, and iNat is automatically filling in the ID based on that and not using computer vision suggestions. Without knowing what the file names of the photos are, or any keywords embedded in the photos’ data, we can’t say for sure but it’s almost certainly due to those.
the other thread i pointed to notes 2 possible things (neither of which is related to names or metadata):
Firefox’s HTML canvas fingerprinting protection (should cause problems consistently, until the feature is turned off)
some sort of intermittent bug in Firefox, possibly related to Nvidia drivers / hardware (should happen inconsistently, and may resolve itself by restarting FIrefox)
