-- On 2007-11-28 -0600 at 09:02:00 Troy Dawson wrote --

> Franchisseur Robert wrote:
> >-- On 2007-10-23 +0100 at 11:08:13 [log in to unmask] 
> >wrote --
> >
> >>On Fri, 19 Oct 2007, Troy Dawson wrote:
> >>>SL 4.x
> >>>
> >>>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.

       Hi,

       no, same problem. For example with the URL:

       http://tmp.sauvonslarecherche.fr/spip.php?article1736

       the print preview is OK but if you print it (or "print to file")
       you only got the first column of the main text.


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                 Best regards,
                               Robert FRANCHISSEUR

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