I tested the FC6 version of Firefox (which incorporates Behdad Esfahbod's patch) on Debian.
1. Removed iceweasel 2. Downloaded firefox-1.5.0.9-1.fc6.i386.rpm 3. Converted to .deb with alien; installed 4. Installed libc6 from experimental 5. Copied libnspr4.so from /usr/lib/iceape to /usr/lib/firefox-1.5.0.9 (this turned out to be necessary because of some unresolved symbol which I then grep'd for; I was rather amazed that it worked) 6. Purged xprint and xprint-common 7. Removed firefox's prefs.js (otherwise a message came about "wrong paper size" -- courtesy of xprint, even though it was removed). The results are excellent! Totally correct display and print of MATHML and of Indic scripts. Also one persistent print bug (which I haven't filed yet) has disappeared: there are no more horizontal spacing problems when CJK characters occur "by themselves" (not inside a <span> or between <tt></tt> tags) in a line with Latin text. Finally a Mozilla product prints well on Linux. Pity that FC6 does not have Firefox 2.0 yet; however, Behdad Esfahbod says his patch also works on 2.0. So yes, well, maybe it does produce problems for the release cycle; but it is still worth going for, because it is a great improvement. Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
