Franchisseur Robert wrote: > -- On 2007-11-28 -0600 at 09:02:00 Troy Dawson wrote -- > >> Franchisseur Robert wrote: >>> -- On 2007-10-23 +0100 at 11:08:13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> wrote -- >>> >>>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Troy Dawson wrote: >>>>> SL 4.x >>>>> >>>>> x86_64: >>>>> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.i386.rpm >>>>> firefox-1.5.0.12-0.7.el4.x86_64.rpm >>>>> >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> The above update to firefox.i386 on the x86_64 >>>> architecture has broken the acrobat and java plugins. >>>> (using acroread 7.0.9 and Sun Java 6u3) >>>> >>>> Clicking on a PDF file causes firefox to exit immediately >>>> and launching webpages that require a java plugin no longer works. >>>> >>>> If I revert to firefox-1.5.0.12-0.3.el4.i386 everything works as expected. >>>> >>>> The reason we're using the i386 version on an x86_64 arch is >>>> to get the various plugins working that have no x86_64 equivalent. >>>> >>>> I can get around the PDF issue by not using the plugin and just >>>> loading the file externally in xpdf/acroread but we need >>>> the java plugin to work too. >>>> >>>> cheers, >>>> Ronnie >>>> <snip> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I only use xpdf, so I don't have this problem but I just >>> noticed that I can't print any longer with this release of >>> firefox, the generated postscript beeing very strange. I first >>> thought that was an UTF8 problem, but I got the same behavior >>> with iso-8859-1 encoding. >>> >>> So I re-install the previous release (1.5.0.12-0.3.el4) and I >>> can print afresh. >>> >>> Does anybody see the same problem ? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Best regards, >>> Robert FRANCHISSEUR >> Hi, >> Can you check and see if the latest firefox errata fixed this problem. > > Hi, > > no, same problem. For example with the URL: > > http://tmp.sauvonslarecherche.fr/spip.php?article1736 > > the print preview is OK but if you print it (or "print to file") > you only got the first column of the main text. > >
Hi Robert, for PSI I have rebuilt firefox without Patch36 (firefox-1.5-pango-justified-range.patch). You may want to try out these RPMs. For SL5: http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/5/psi/all/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.1.slp5.i386.rpm http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/5/psi/all/firefox-1.5.0.12-7.1.slp5.x86_64.rpm For SL4: http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/4/psi/all/firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.1.slp4.i386.rpm http://linux.web.psi.ch/dist/scientific/4/psi/all/firefox-1.5.0.12-0.8.1.slp4.x86_64.rpm Please let me know, if these RPMs solve your problem. Urs
