Bug 1318700 - sourcecode of webpages are viewed in a complete wrong charset
Summary: sourcecode of webpages are viewed in a complete wrong charset
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 23
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Jan Horak
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-03-17 14:25 UTC by customercare
Modified: 2016-12-20 19:29 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2016-12-20 19:29:47 UTC
Type: Bug


Attachments (Terms of Use)
FireFox Charset Problem (41.04 KB, image/png)
2016-03-19 16:34 UTC, customercare
no flags Details

Description customercare 2016-03-17 14:25:16 UTC
Description of problem:

A freshly added Useraccount has massive problems viewing webpages.
it manifests best as described in the reproductionsection.

But it also as several other side effects:

1. Some webpages with CSS do not show text output anymore.
2. if texts are shown, it is massivly bound to CSS classes involing certain font commands. this goes as far as webbrowsing becomes impossible.

3. the mainadminuser of the computer HAS NONE of this problems,
so they only appear if a new profile is created.
4. a useraccount with german as language set, ends up with an english setuped firefox .. adding the german language package via addons page of firefox, solves at least this. The german language RPM is installed, so this should not happen at all. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

Firefox 45.0.0

All patches installed from stable @ 15:24 CET 17.3.2016

How reproducible:

100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. add a new useraccount to the computer
2. login as new user ( should have german in region&language settings )
3. start firefox
4. vist ANY webpage
5. open the scourcode page for that website you visited

Actual results:

a lot of invisible unrecognizable chars in the output,
no normal text . So it is not viewed in anything thats compatibel 
to ascii .

Expected results:

normal human readable output.


Additional info:

The useraccount was created via the gnome settings -> User menu. Nothing special about this step.

Comment 1 Martin Stransky 2016-03-17 15:31:33 UTC
Please download and test upstream Firefox binary from mozilla.com.

Comment 2 customercare 2016-03-19 16:33:41 UTC
I downloaded FireFox 64bit,
started it,
it updated itself,
and produced the attached screenshot.... or in word: same error

Comment 3 customercare 2016-03-19 16:34:10 UTC
Created attachment 1138042 [details]
FireFox Charset Problem

Comment 4 Jan Horak 2016-05-02 12:37:12 UTC
Please check Monospace font settings and try to change it. To review and change monospace font go to Preferences/Content/Fonts&Colors/Advanced.../Monospace.

Comment 5 customercare 2016-05-02 17:42:55 UTC
no change..

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