Thank you biesoid

Originally posted by R7F77L:

No images appear in the Steam store, only in the store.

I reinstalled Steam and it didn't work.

Is there a problem uninstalling using Revo Unistaller?
Is there a chance I'll lose my game progress?
Will I lose something important?

My games are on a different partition.

The "Steam Store" is built on a foundation of the "Google Chrome" browser. And always the most recent version of that browser.

That's what forced people running Win7 off of Steam (except using "hacks" of various forms). Not game incompatibility, or even service incompatibility. ONLY "Google Chrome" incompatibility.

This is a real issue. Valve has made themselves entirely dependent on the good graces of Google... who have no interest, whatsoever, in supporting Steam, apart from getting a licensing fee for the inclusion of Chrome Browser.

Valve would be much better off using their own code, or some version of an existing "open source" code model, for this. They've basically made themselves extraordinarily vulnerable to the whims of Google. Not necessarily a good position to put yourself into.

That said... this gives you an approach to take in debugging this issue. Most likely, it's a Chrome configuration issue. Chrome has settings which allow image loading to be turned off, for example. You might want to research where Chrome keeps those settings (last time I looked, they were in a text configuration file, but buried deep inside your "user" directory). It's entirely possible that some security tool you've got installed changed the default settings for Chrome and this (accidentally) carried over into Steam as a side effect.

But in any case, the issue absolutely lies SOMEHOW within the integrated Chrome version built in to Steam.

Personally, I don't use Chrome unless I have no choice (several businesses I do business with have sites that will ONLY open with Chrome, or (mostly) with "Microsoft Edge" (which is just a heavily modified version of Chrome) and with no other browser. I don't trust Google enough to do business with someone who is known to collect personal data perpetually... I like open-source browsers much better. No "hidden backdoors" sending my bank account info, and everything else, to Alphabet.

But Steam uses it, so we have to deal with it. And your problem is almost certainly "Chrome" related.

Originally posted by CLBrown:

The "Steam Store" is built on a foundation of the "Google Chrome" browser. And always the most recent version of that browser.

CEF is not the Google-branded Chrome browser, but they do share a rendering engine.

It's also not "always the most recent version of that browser". Steam Client Beta is currently based on Chromium (not Chrome) 126.0.6478.183. The latest version of Chromium is 138.0.7204.101.

Originally posted by CLBrown:

This is a real issue. Valve has made themselves entirely dependent on the good graces of Google... who have no interest, whatsoever, in supporting Steam, apart from getting a licensing fee for the inclusion of Chrome Browser.

Google does not receive any payment for use of CEF, a library made by Marshall Greenblatt. Yes, CEF is made and maintained by one volunteer person.

Originally posted by CLBrown:

Valve would be much better off using their own code, or some version of an existing "open source" code model, for this.

CEF is fully open source.