Bug#408528: Success with FC6 version!

Jan Willem Stumpel jstumpel at planet.nl
Tue Jan 30 14:38:56 CET 2007


I tested the FC6 version of Firefox (which incorporates Behdad
Esfahbod's patch) on Debian.

1. Removed iceweasel
2. Downloaded firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.i386.rpm
3. Converted to .deb with alien; installed
4. Installed libc6 from experimental
5. Copied libnspr4.so from /usr/lib/iceape to
   /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9 (this turned out to be necessary
   because of some unresolved symbol which I then grep'd for; I
   was rather amazed that it worked)
6. Purged xprint and xprint-common
7. Removed firefox's prefs.js (otherwise a message came
   about "wrong paper size" -- courtesy of xprint, even though
   it was removed).

The results are excellent! Totally correct display and print of
MATHML and of Indic scripts. Also one persistent print bug (which
I haven't filed yet) has disappeared: there are no more horizontal
spacing problems when CJK characters occur "by themselves" (not
inside a <span> or between <tt></tt> tags) in a line with Latin text.

Finally a Mozilla product prints well on Linux. Pity that FC6 does
not have Firefox 2.0 yet; however, Behdad Esfahbod says his patch
also works on 2.0. So yes, well, maybe it does produce problems
for the release cycle; but it is still worth going for, because it
is a great improvement.

Regards, Jan




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