Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 227475
Firefox 1.5.0.9-2 makes webpages unreadable
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:11:56 EST
Description of problem: Latest version 1.5.0.9-2 of Firefox made some webpages unreadable. I don't know the reason. You can find examples of unreadable pages from the articles in the following websites: http://www.apogeonline.com http://punto-informatico.it This bug in 1.5.0.9-2 made me downgrade to version 1.5.0.9-1 which does not present such problems. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.5.0.9-2 How reproducible: Always, on some websites
Same here. Many links start with the right letter and then they all end with a bunch of _ (right lenght from the original. source html is right.) FF Plugins I am running: Adblock Plus CuteMenus Distrust Fasterfox Firefox Showcase Habari Xenu Rikaichan Leet Key NoScript PrefBar Web Developer Permit Cookies
Pango enabled or disabled?
I can confirm this on linux FC6. I see it on the front page of www.slate.com. Following comment #2 I unset MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO (which I had set to 1 for speed on my 900MhZ laptop)and the problem went away. So it is related to disabling pango. I see there is a pango update in updates-testing. Should I try that?
i disabled pango because of performance reasons and i get the unreadable webpages with this configuration. anyway i can confirm that the problem goes away by unsetting MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 227406 ***