I'm sorry, but the machine on which this behavior occurs is my main
production workstation, and I'm reluctant to upgrade it, given that the
last time I tried to upgrade an Ubuntu system from 8.04 to 8.10 the
upgrade process crashed, and the bug report filed with launchpad for
this crash was ignored.  In fact, this seems to be the standard pattern
for most of the Ubuntu bugs I have taken the time to file.  Nothing
happens after I file a report until a long time has passed, at which
point I get a message (possibly automated?) saying "there hasn't been
any activity in [the reported issue] recently" and asking if I could do
some more testing to find out if the bug has disappeared so it can be
closed.  I know this is not commercial software, but Ubuntu is the only
widely-used open source software I have used for which taking the
trouble to report bugs appears to be a waste of time.  I'm sure some on
the Ubuntu team are aware of the value of carefully prepared bug reports
from the user community, but unfortunately that understanding isn't
sufficiently widespread to make a difference that I can see.

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Firefox not rendering pages from Windows web server correctly
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