Re: Garbled output with Firefox 77

[Ottavio Caruso <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 16:28, Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 15:43, Ottavio Caruso
> <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> >
> > What about disabling the website fonts?
> >
> > From website css:
> >
> > @font-face {
> >   font-family: 'FontAwesome';
> >   src: url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?v=4.5.0');
> >   src: url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix&v=4.5.0')
> > format('embedded-opentype'),
> > url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff2?v=4.5.0') format('woff2'),
> > url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=4.5.0') format('woff'),
> > url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=4.5.0') format('truetype'),
> > url('../fonts/fontawesome-webfont.svg?v=4.5.0#fontawesomeregular')
> > format('svg');
> >   font-weight: normal;
> >   font-style: normal;
> > }
> >
> >
> > Tools > Options > Content : Fonts & Colors > Advanced >
> >
> > Un-check:
> >
> > "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above"
>
> Well, that certainly solves the printing problem I mentioned. Thanks,
> I've forgotten about this option, which I used to use many years ago.

You're welcome, but that doesn't really solve the problem, it just
exposes the problem for what it is. There are literally thousands of
"firefox showing symbols instead of text" threads all over the
interweb going back to many years ago. This is not something new to
the latest version of FF.

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Ottavio Caruso