diff --git a/image/src/imgRequestProxy.cpp b/image/src/imgRequestProxy.cpp
index bfa3be147fe5..cf46bade85ac 100644
--- a/image/src/imgRequestProxy.cpp
+++ b/image/src/imgRequestProxy.cpp
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 #include "ImageLogging.h"
 #include "imgRequestProxy.h"
 #include "imgIOnloadBlocker.h"
-
+#include "imgLoader.h"
 #include "Image.h"
 #include "ImageOps.h"
 #include "nsError.h"
@@ -695,6 +695,11 @@ imgRequestProxy::PerformClone(imgINotificationObserver* aObserver,
     return rv;
   }
 
+  if (GetOwner() && GetOwner()->GetValidator()) {
+    clone->SetNotificationsDeferred(true);
+    GetOwner()->GetValidator()->AddProxy(clone);
+  }
+
   // Assign to *aClone before calling Notify so that if the caller expects to
   // only be notified for requests it's already holding pointers to it won't be
   // surprised.