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  • From: Treeve Jelbert <treeve01 AT pi.be>
  • To: Bas van Gils <bas.vangils AT cs.kun.nl>, SM Users-list <sm-users AT lists.ibiblio.org>
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  • Subject: [SM-Users] Re: firefox/mozilla
  • Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 18:11:14 +0100

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On Thursday 18 March 2004 17:42, Bas van Gils wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> some of you (especially the ppl hanging out on IRC) probably have noticed
> already that I've been batteling with mozilla/firefox. Problems I've had :
>
> - encoding is borked pretty much in firefox... no matter waht I try I keep
> getting 0096-glyphs and stuff. mozilla does a little better, most of the
> time
>
> - printing is borked in mozilla. Trying to send it to the spool => works
> fine. Spooling it to the printer, also no problem. the printer just drops
> it though and refuses to print anything. Also, sometimes pdq (the print
> system i use) comes up with the message that the printer doesn't know what
> to do with the input it received. Kind of vague IMO.
>
> Since browser is pretty essential for me, I decided to give a binary
> firefox a try. Works like a charm! Only thing is that for some reason cast
> --fix thinks that j2sdk-bin is borked (libxpcom.so not found).

libxpcom.so is missing in many cases, so recasting j2sdk-bin won't make any
difference

>
> Anyway, I'm happy to report that I have found a "workaround" and since I
> guess there might be other ppl with the same kind of problems....
>
> - dispell firefox / mozilla
> - clean out their respective directories in /usr/lib
> - download the firefox binary, unpack it in /opt
> - make a softlink in /usr/lib to the newly created dir in /opt
> - make sure this dir is also in /etc/ld.so.conf
> - re-cast the spells for your plugins (e.g. flash and j2sdk-bin)
> - run cast --fix
>
> This worked like a charm for me. It's not elegant and from time to time
> I'll try to recompile firefox again and see if problems are fixed. But
> untill then this is a workable situation!
>
> Hope this helps someone :-)
>
> Cheers!
>
> Bas
Regards, Treeve

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