Re: jessie: Firefox download dialog unusable

[Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com>]

On 03/14/2015 12:19 PM, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:42 PM, Felix Natter <fnatter@gmx.net> wrote:
> > hi,
> >
> > I get an unusable download dialog in firefox (iceweasel) of current
> > jessie (updated this morning):
> >    http://www2.inf.fh-brs.de/~fnatte2s/firefox-empty-buttons2.png
> >
> > Clicking on the half-displayed buttons is a no-op.
> >
> > I can reproduce it by clicking on "woodstox-core-src-V.tar.gz" on
> > http://wiki.fasterxml.com/WoodstoxDownload (see screenshot above).
> >
> > Freeciv-gtk[23] work fine (also gtk intensive applications).
>
> What is Freeciv-gtk[23]? FWIW, when I go to
> http://wiki.fasterxml.com/WoodstoxDownload and try to download
> "woodstox-core-src-V.tar.gz" , I do not see any problem.
>
> I am using iceweasel 31.4.0esr-1~deb7u1 on a machine running a
> combination of Jessie and Wheezy.

You are blessed and highly favored. It's when you hit version 36 that it 
blows up. I'm using Firefox from another repo, so we're getting 
clobbered first. Thatfully, I found version 35 still on my Ubuntu 
partition, and manually installed it. No worries now. Plus, I pinned it. Ric



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