Bug#557009: iceweasel has rendering errors, while 'vanilla' Firefox does not

[Mike Hommey]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 12:27:04PM +0100, Michael Maurer wrote:
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> Mike Hommey wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > Sorry for the late answer.
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> > On Sun, Nov 22, 2009 at 08:03:09AM +0100, Michael Maurer wrote:
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> >> Mike Hommey wrote:
> >>> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:10:26PM +0100, Michael Maurer wrote:
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> >>>> Mike Hommey wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:06:59PM +0100, Michael Maurer wrote:
> >>>>>> No changing the layout.css.dpi from "0" to "-1" had no effect, as far as I can tell.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> By the way my screen resolution is 1024x768.
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> >>>>>> I also tried changing my User-String using User-Agent Switcher to the User-String of 'vanilla' firefox (after I tested the site in safe-mode),
> >>>>>>  the site showed the very same behavior though.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> If you want me to try anything else, just let me know.
> >>>>> There are three things I would advise to try:
> >>>>> - Try with a new user profile
> >>>>> - Try copying the firefox preferences from the defaults/preferences
> >>>>>   directory to /usr/lib/iceweasel/defaults/preferences
> >>>>>   (there shouldn't be much differences, though)
> >>>>> - Try iceweasel -safe-mode, in case you have some extensions installed
> >>>>>   as debian packages.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Mike
> >>>> Sorry, that it took so long for me to answer.
> >>>>
> >>>> As you suggested, I created a new user, copied the firefox/defaults/pref to  /usr/lib/iceweasel/defaults/preferences and used 'iceweasel -safe-mode',
> >>>> still no change.
> >>> Also try copying firefox's greprefs to /usr/lib/xulrunner-1.9.1/greprefs.
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> >>> Mike
> >> Tried copying the 'greprefs' folder, didn't change anything either.
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> > Did you try setting layout.css.dpi to some value such as 96 in both ?
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > Mike
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> 
> Hi,
>  I also tried now to set layout.css.dpi to 96 in both iceweasel and firefox (using safe-mode in both) but the behavior is still the very same.

That really doesn't make sense. There is no change in iceweasel that
could explain such layout difference. Unfortunately, the web page
doesn't repond, now...

Mike