Re: Garbled output with Firefox 77

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 12:53, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 12:21, Jaromír Doleček <jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > Le ven. 5 juin 2020 à 10:23, Marc Baudoin <babafou%babafou.eu.org@localhost> a écrit :
> > > > Has anyone experienced the same problem?
> > >
> > > The problem is still present with version 77.0.1.
> >
> > I recall there was some minor gnome lib bump which dropped support for
> > fixed size fonts or some such.
> >
> > Could it be a font issue?
>
> Also seeing this here - firefox 77 and all other packages from latest
> pkgsrc build (just before 77.0.1 bump).
>
> I don't think its a font issue - as pages show without any layout -
> its as if it tried to layout a stream of random bytes as an html file.
>
> Wondering if this could be a package on which firefox depends... To
> those who are not seeing any problem - did you rebuild all packages
> from pkgsrc as well as firefox?
>
> I'm going to downgrade www/firefox _only_ to 76 and test a build

To confirm - downgrading www/firefox to 76 and rebuilding firefox
against the same latest pkgsrc dependencies fixes the issue, which
pretty much eliminates an updated dependency being the issue (which
was unlikely, but easy enough to test)