Re: Garbled output with Firefox 77

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

On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 21:17, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 15:56, Ottavio Caruso
> <ottavio2006-usenet2012%yahoo.com@localhost> wrote:
> > > On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 13:41, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 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)
> > >
> > > So, what was the issue then?
>
> The issue is present in firefox 77. My test was just to confirm it was
> 77 vs 76, and not any of the other updated dependencies.
>
> > #Begin rant
> > Apologies for playing a broken record, but I really don't understand
> > the psychological resistance to opening an application with a new,
> > clean profile before reporting issues.
> > #End of rant
>
> I have kept the same main profile since sometime in the Firefox 5x
> range, but I typically test with a fresh profile when I see any issue
> (including in this case)

If you started with a fresh new profile and the problem persists, then
I'd say the first thing would be to raise a bug with Bugzilla.

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Ottavio Caruso