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Franchisseur Robert wrote:
> -- On 2007-10-23 +0100 at 11:08:13 [log in to unmask] wrote --
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>> On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
>>> SL 4.x
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>>> 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.
Thanks
Troy
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Troy Dawson [log in to unmask] (630)840-6468
Fermilab ComputingDivision/LCSI/CSI DSS Group
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