Ubuntu :: FireFox Won't Display Text Unless Run In Root
Jun 22, 2011
I don't use Firefox much, my default browser is Google Chrome. But I've noticed sometimes things like Flash on some sites runs smoother in FireFox. So yesterday I opened up FF because Facebook was giving me some issues, so i wanted to see if it was Chrome or FB. Now, I haven't run FF in a few weeks, and I've noticed a few updates had rolled in for it since my last use.
When I opened FF and went to FB the login page wouldn't display correctly, and in fact would display no text whatsoever except for the links for the Japanese and Chinese FB pages. I assumed it was FB since I was already having issues with it. Later, I tried again and got the same loading issue. So I ran a Google search for FF issues with FB and got the same problem with Google search results, I got the logo and all the little search icons, but no text.
I tried everything I could think of and everything anyone I asked could think of including:
The only thing that I can do to make FF work is run Alt+F2 gksu firefox. That allows it work with out any issues. Has anyone come across this issue or anything similar? I'm including a couple screen shots of what it looks like when it's not working correctly. Note: these pages have finished loading, the text isn't "white on white" it's just not displaying, view source of these pages shows the complete page is loaded including all text it just isn't being rendered.
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May 7, 2011
I am posting this under "Desktop Environments" because this does not occur under Unity, nor under KDE (tested with Kubuntu live-CD).
I run Firefox 4.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.04, having installed GNOME 3 via PPA. The following HTML file is not displayed correctly in Firefox:
Code:
<html>
<body>
<p>This is <em>italic text</em>.</p>
</body>
[Code]....
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Jan 11, 2011
I'm testing HTML5 for the first time, using Firefox (beta) 4.0b8 and SeaMonkey (beta) 2.1b1, and its ignoring some CSS. Specifically, I have problems with the <details> tag. (It is nested in a paragraph...I am using it to provide an in-paragraph definition in hopes it can be toggled.)
Firefox only partly supports <details>. It's not supposed to show anything except the content of <summary>, unless you click on <summary>'s content. Instead, it puts a line break before the content of <details>, splitting the paragraph in two peices (which looks silly), without the "closed/open" functionality.
So I tried using "display:inline" in my CSS, but that gets ignored. Just for fun, I also tried "display:hidden" (also ignored) and "display:none" (obeyed).
SeaMonkey doesn't doesn't do anything special with the content of <display>...but it also ignores the same CSS as Firefox.
The only thing I can do to support semantic design is apply "font-style:italic" to all <details> elements.
Granted, you might ask, "why bother using <details> at all. then?" Well, I would like to have <details> for the browsers that support it, with the "font-style:italic" to degrade the page nicely for those that don't (such as for SeaMonkey).
Does anyone know why "display:inline" and "display:hidden" get ignored?
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May 29, 2011
i have the following text in a file located in /home/anoopm101/.task [description:"this is the text" entry:"1306682734" status:"pending" uuid:"25c54e1b-824f-52bc-4933-dfe7cda34bc7"]
i have to display on my desktop "this is the text" using conky.
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May 29, 2011
i have the following text in a file located in /home/anoopm101/.task
[description:"this is the text" entry:"1306682734" status:"pending" uuid:"25c54e1b-824f-52bc-4933-dfe7cda34bc7"]
i have to display on my desktop "this is the text" using conky
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Mar 30, 2011
I am using find some_dir -name "*.some_ext" | xargs -l10 grep "some_expr"
to find files in folder, but I just want to display the file name but not all file content. Any solution?
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Aug 10, 2009
I have a form that have a browse button, convert to ASCII button, cancel button and text area... all i have to do is...? when i click the browse button and choose a folder that have a utf8.txt the file that have utf8 will appear or display into the text area... what i can i do to make this..?
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Mar 13, 2009
I am using Debian Lenny (5.0) and I would like to know how can we display a custom text message on the XDM login screen?
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Mar 7, 2009
I'm looking for a text editor that when displaying a document will parse any ANSI color codes it comes across into the correct colors rather than just show the codes in the ^[[xx;xx;xxm format
can anyone recommend something?
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Aug 6, 2011
I have Ubuntu 10.10 and Open Office 3.2.1. I guess that this problem may affect Libre Office too, but I will be happy to be proved wrong about that. I am editing a document that was originally produced in Microsoft Word (the standard .doc format). It is a form produced by a national organisation and it has to be sent back to them, and when submitted it has to be no longer than two A4 pages. It contains a series of headings and (expanding) text boxes for content.
In order to be sure about the length, I did most of the editing with Microsoft Word on my wife's laptop. On that machine, and on a PC that has a different version of Word, the document fits exactly within the two-page limit. But on my laptop, using Open Office, it appears considerably longer, taking up two-and-a-half pages. Why is this, and can anything be done to correct it? Open Office appears to be using the same fonts as Microsoft Word - the font names are the same, anyway - and the font sizes are the same, yet the text appears to take up more of the page display.
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Mar 25, 2010
Why does Firefox sometimes not see text in page searches? See screen capture below. On this web page, I searched for "256" but FF did not find it on the page however the first account of 256 is right there staring me in the face.
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Jul 3, 2011
On My OpenSuse 11.3 box, all my 64-bit apps correctly select Western font for menu items, file selection etc.. But my 32-bit apps like Adobe reader and 32-bit version of Firefox display unreadable text for mouse right click, file save and select etc, as if they are trying to use an invalid font or character encoding.C how I configure 32-bit apps to use Western character set, and to find what it is actually looking for ?
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Apr 21, 2010
Running SunGard Banner software on RHEL 4.2 x86-32 bit Linux server Oracle Application 10.1.2.3 samba enabled. Users run processes/reports that are logged in a daily log file. In our daily job submission log files the user password shows up as clear text.The password shows up as $PSWD (sample from the logfile):
$JOB
$BANUID
$PSWD
[code]...
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Dec 26, 2009
Im trying to figure out how to display parts of a .db file created by the scorch2000 server to display a player name, games played, score and maybe more...
here is the text file format example:
playername1 password email #ofgames score setting1 setting2 setting3
playername2 password email #ofgames score setting1 setting2 setting3
playername3 password email #ofgames score setting1 setting2 setting3
playername4 password email #ofgames score setting1 setting2 setting3
playername5 password email #ofgames score setting1 setting2 setting3
I dont want to display everything, of course ^^, but how do i get the player name, the number of games he played and his score to display it in a webpage in this fasion:
Name Games Played Score
joe blow1 25 9876890
joe blow2 31 8989767
joe blow2 26 7989767
joe blow2 17 5989767
joe blow2 13 4989767
and by highest score because the log doesin't put them in in score order....
please help, i asked the maker because he has one runing already but no answer back, well the game is pretty old so i didn't really expect an answer anyways and tryed to figure it out but i dont know functions in php, this is to include in a php-nuke block (this i know how to do
here is an example of a working page at the developper website:url
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Apr 8, 2010
In viewing some web pages, the right hand dozen or so characters are hidden unless the left-right scroll bar is used. When Firefox 3.5.8 32 bit is expanded to full screen on a 1920 pixel wide monitor on Kubuntu 9.10, Firefox changes the word wrap so the new dozen or so characters are STILL hidden, forcing me to use the left-right scrool bar.
There no longer appears to be any Word Wrap option. I tried several solutions Googled, including userContent.css hacks and a couple of add-ins, but they all appear to apply only to the preformatted tag. This is not a "pre" issue. The text in question is not inside the preformatted text tag, and the site CSS is not under my control.
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Jul 15, 2010
I'm having problems with writing text. It usually happens in the google search bar next to the address bar in firefox. The text sometimes automatically highlights itself at what appears to be random intervals, so i usually end up with the last part of a word (which is usually over-writing the first half, which was highlighted). This is extremely annoying as i have no clue what i could have done to cause this.
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Jul 21, 2010
I think it started after the last Firefox update - I can't select text in forms on any page - not even here, while I'm writing this. When I double click, the selection appears for a fraction of a second, and vanishes instantly. Neither can I select text by dragging, the same happens. I can still select everything with ctrl+A, but I can't select single words or sentences. It's driving me nuts. I've actually switched to Chrome because of this, but I'm missing a lot of Firefox's functionality there, so I'd rather stay with Mozilla.
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Oct 8, 2010
I just upgraded to Maverick this afternoon, and have run into one very small, but very annoying problem.
Since upgrading, the text color for the Firefox menu is black. This makes it unreadable/invisible using probably the majority of personas. I have been able to find no way of changing this color. This was not an issue in Lucid.
There have been other threads on this subject, some of which suggest editing a userChrome.css file. I have edited that file, but upon restarting Firefox, the changes I have made revert back to what they had been before I made my edits.
I have also fiddled around with trying to change all manner of GTK settings, but still nothing has had any influence. I logged into a Gnome session, as well, but was still unable to remedy this.
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Nov 16, 2010
all my text files are opened with firefox how can I change that.
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May 17, 2011
FireFox 3.6.17
HPLIP 3.10.2 with HP OfficeJet J4540 connected
CUPS 1.4.3
When I print from a web page, it prints 3 pages from a web page that looks like it would print more than 3 pages. It seems like only the first, second and last sections of a web page is being printed. Is there an easy fix to this?
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Jan 23, 2009
i need a php script to format and display a select amount of text from a file or a cron job that'll do it (with grep etc) and out put to a file but whatever is easier i want to display all the banned ip's i have in my .htaccess file i have a lot of lines in my .htaccess file but i have a line that read like this:
Code:
RewriteCond %{REMOTE_ADDR} (123.123.123.123|123.123.123.123|123.123.123.123)$
the 3 test ip's are 123.123.123.123 and i want the "" stripping and the "|" removing and each ip to be on it's own line like this:
123.123.123.123
123.123.123.123
123.123.123.123
i'm not bothered if this is a php script that'll read the .htaccess file and display the output or a cron job that'll run every x mins and output it to a .txt file but i'd prefer a php script
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Jun 30, 2010
I have no problems displaying Chinese characters in IE in Windows and I just switched over to Ubuntu.
I have gone to view-> Character Encoding and set it to simpified Chinese but the screenshot still looks like the attachment.
I see only squares. What should I do?
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Jan 8, 2010
My viewsonic monitor will only go to 800x600 resolution on ubuntu..I had a similar problem with centos but went in an manually configured as root the display GUI and increased the resolution. Is there any way to do this with ubuntu? 800x600 is annoying on a 17" high end monitor
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Oct 12, 2010
I just upgraded from 10.04 to 10.10.After the upgrade I can't open any GUI programs running as root.
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Apr 1, 2010
how can I set DISPLAY command to run Firefox on say tty1?
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Nov 9, 2010
Right now I'm getting little boxes with hexcode instead of text-critical marks in my Greek texts that have been marked up. Also, I can't get xml to display in my firefox browser. What am I missing? Shouldn't Firefox parse xml and display something like an html page?
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Mar 30, 2011
First of all I want to say that I'm new to Linux. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 LL and i want to create a html page, in terminal mode, but firefox does not display it correctly. i used this tutorial, http://linuxcommand.org/wss0030.php , but it seems that whatever i do, when i run the page with firefox (x@ubuntu:~/bin$ firefox page.html), the page displays the #!/bin/bash line, it doesn't interpret variables, reserved words, or any other special characters ( $, <<- ). I've tried to change the encoding in firefox from Unicode-8 to Unicode-32 but no luck
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Jul 19, 2010
I cannot install the text filter that is usually below the address/search bar.
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May 16, 2010
On certain sites like this one and Sears, after about 30 seconds the screen goes mostly white with a few black spots and the cursor turns into a big white square... for a few seconds. Afterwards, the site mostly returns, but all text on the screen is unreadable.It's not fuzzy, just weird, non-discernible symbols. 4/5 it goes back to normal if I log out and back in, though it does over and over if I revisit the same sites. It's been going on since about Monday.
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Jun 6, 2011
I can do it with mousepad. Below is what I get when trying to open with gedit
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