Hi,

I'm sorry to report bad news.

There are severe problems with firefox (and probably with all 
mozilla-based apps) when using the new cairo 1.10.0.

I've noticed that fonts and images are all messed up in some 
pages. For example, have a look at: 

http://145.238.209.44/dcoppa/firefox_cairo-1.10.0_1.png

http://145.238.209.44/dcoppa/firefox_cairo-1.10.0_2.png

Also, animated gifs don't work anymore. Take, for example: 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Rotating_earth_(large).gif

When firefox is linked with libcairo 1.10.0, the gif does 
not rotate.

The workaround is to remove "--enable-system-cairo" from 
CONFIGURE_ARGS. After this, it's back to normality: 

http://145.238.209.44/dcoppa/firefox_intree_cairo.png

That's sad... And I'm with this gentoo linux developer: 

"Switching over to bundled cairo lib as seamonkey-2.0.x has 
issues with cairo-1.10.0. If you don't like this blame 
upstream as they don't care about anything than their damned 
bundled shit!!!" (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337813)

cheers, 
david

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