Re: Garbled output with Firefox 77

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Sat, 6 Jun 2020 at 13:41, David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost> wrote:
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> 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)

And unfortunately does not give any hint as to why the issue does not
exist for quite a few users. All my latest builds can display the page
in question without any problem.



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