diff --git a/src/components/NewPostWidget.tsx b/src/components/NewPostWidget.tsx
index 7146bc7..ea3496a 100644
--- a/src/components/NewPostWidget.tsx
+++ b/src/components/NewPostWidget.tsx
@@ -196,7 +196,15 @@ async function optimizeImageSize(
   dstCanvas.width = width
   dstCanvas.height = height
 
-  await pica.resize(srcCanvas, dstCanvas)
+  try {
+    // TODO resistFingerprinting in FF and other causes this to break.
+    //      knowing this, i would still rather be able to post from other browsers for now
+    //      and will hopefully find a better solution
+    await pica.resize(srcCanvas, dstCanvas)
+  } catch (e) {
+    console.error('cant resize image', e)
+    return file
+  }
 
   let blob = await pica.toBlob(dstCanvas, outputType, quality)