Firefox is still crazy.

Jim Bevier jim at jbsys.com
Fri Aug 4 03:02:38 UTC 2006


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dirk Remmelt" <dirk.remmelt at accenture.com>
To: <fedora-test-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2006 10:39 AM
Subject: Re: Firefox is still crazy.


> Hello Jim
>
> until today I had the same problem with FC 5.91 (FC6 Test2). Because no
> update solved it, I looked into it by comparing the used libraries in
> programs which had the display problem (i.e. firefox, evolution,
> tsclient) and others which hadn't.
>
> The reason for the display problem is the cairo package in the
> development repository. By using the latest cairo package of the FC5
> update repository there should be no problems.
>
> Dirk

Dirk,

I got the version cairo-1.1.10-1.x86_64.rpm and did an rpm --oldpackage and 
it did not fix the problem.  What version of cario did you use that fixed 
the missing text in firefox?  LMK.

Jim

>
> On 7/31/06, Jim Bevier <jim jbsys com> wrote:
>> I have all the updates as of today from Rawhide.  For the last several
>> days, Firefox has not been displaying test correctly.  When I open
>> Firefox, I get Fedora Core 5.91 release notes displayed.  However,
>> only the underlined and bold text is displayed.  If I scroll the page,
>> all the text will appear and looks fine.  As soon as another program
>> get focus, the text disappears again.  Clicking back on Firefox and
>> scrolling the page will return the text.  Is this OS, Firefox, X11,
>> or ?  Any ideas?  I have an X86_64 system with NVIDIA card and use
>> KDE.
>>
>> Jim
>
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