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From: Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Firefox package problem
Date: Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:33:17
Message-Id: 4A29027B.7020903@ercbroadband.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Firefox package problem by Nikos Chantziaras
1 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Mark Haney wrote:
3 >> I updated to FF 3.0.10 yesterday and didn't see any problems on the
4 >> compile. However, I've noticed that certain sites don't display text
5 >> properly, it just shows strange characters.
6 >>
7 >> I've seen that problem before and re-emerge FF. But, on the re-emerge I
8 >> saw this in my terminal:
9 >>
10 >> Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file:
11 >> bin/greprefs/all.js (packages-static, 291).
12 >> Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file:
13 >> bin/greprefs/security-prefs.js (packages-static, 292).
14 >> Warning: package error or possible missing or unnecessary file:
15 >> bin/greprefs/xpinstall.js (packages-static, 293).
16 >>
17 >>
18 >> I'm not sure what to do about this, as the compile of FF didn't take
19 >> long at all when it usually takes several minutes on my laptop. Any
20 >> ideas?
21 >
22 > Have you tried "View->Character Encoding->Auto-Detect->Universal"?
23 >
24 > Also, if the "xulrunner" USE flag is enabled (it's recommended), then
25 > Firefox compiles very fast since the majority of the code is in
26 > xulrunner, not Firefox.
27 >
28 >
29 Yeah, that doesn't fix it. Basically in between words I see a small box
30 with a '20' in the top half and a '00' in the bottom half. IT's very
31 tiny and I can't get rid of it. I just updated xulrunner and then FF,
32 but that didn't fix it this time.
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