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crjackson
March 29th, 2009, 10:23 PM
Has anyone else got problems with facebook? My kids brought it to my attention that they can't use facebook with Jaunty. It works perfectly in Hardy and Intrepid.

Thanks
damis648
March 29th, 2009, 10:27 PM
Upgraded to Jaunty beta two days ago, no problems. Maybe if you could post a screenshot?
crjackson
March 29th, 2009, 10:35 PM
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FuturePilot
March 29th, 2009, 10:37 PM
Wow that's really odd. It's fine here though. Maybe something wrong with your profile or one of your settings.
damis648
March 29th, 2009, 10:39 PM
Wow that's really odd. It's fine here though. Maybe something wrong with your profile or one of your settings.

Yea... maybe try renaming your ~/.mozilla folder, see if a default config for firefox fixes it.
crjackson
March 29th, 2009, 10:51 PM
Yea... maybe try renaming your ~/.mozilla folder, see if a default config for firefox fixes it.

No it didn't change. HOWEVER running firefox through terminal with gksu worked perfect.

Something is amiss...
damis648
March 29th, 2009, 10:53 PM
No it didn't change. HOWEVER running firefox through terminal with gksu worked perfect.

Something is amiss...

:-k:-k:-k
Wait... does root share your theme (is your current theme installed to /usr/share/themes or ~/.themes?)
crjackson
March 29th, 2009, 11:11 PM
:-k:-k:-k
Wait... does root share your theme (is your current theme installed to /usr/share/themes or ~/.themes?)

No, but I switched to the default Human Theme and it still did the same.

The theme is default but with custom window, icons, and color

Got to run for the night. I'll get on it tomorrow again.
crjackson
March 30th, 2009, 10:37 AM
Okay, back looking for answers after a little sleep.
dBuster
March 30th, 2009, 10:46 AM
Since it is working for me all I have is a stab in the dark...

Font size have anything to do with it? Overriding the css from that page?
crjackson
March 30th, 2009, 11:42 AM
Since it is working for me all I have is a stab in the dark...

Font size have anything to do with it? Overriding the css from that page?

how do you do that? Are you saying to set a fixed font?
dBuster
March 30th, 2009, 12:52 PM
how do you do that? Are you saying to set a fixed font?

Is it trying to use a system font that may be borked to 133.3333 font size? I know that hosed me for a little bit. Or even in FF the change font size option. Could be the character encoding was changed also to a font that is not there...

Just throwing things out there to check...
crjackson
March 30th, 2009, 01:04 PM
Is it trying to use a system font that may be borked to 133.3333 font size? I know that hosed me for a little bit. Or even in FF the change font size option. Could be the character encoding was changed also to a font that is not there...

Just throwing things out there to check...

So far nothing... The fact that gksu firefox in a terminal seems to imply it's a user configuration, so I'm going to play with that tonight when I get home from work.

If messing with themes and extensions won't work, I'll make a new user profile and see if it's all good there. I would like to know the culprit though.
dazzler
March 30th, 2009, 02:10 PM
I havent got an answer but a friend of mine had this issue the other day, he was using firefox on a windows machine.

It did however load fine in ie, so i simply installed ietab extension and made it load facebook with explorers backend.
crjackson
March 30th, 2009, 05:10 PM
I havent got an answer but a friend of mine had this issue the other day, he was using firefox on a windows machine.

It did however load fine in ie, so i simply installed ietab extension and made it load facebook with explorers backend.

That's strange. It loads fine on Hardy, Intrepid, and Jaunty as root. I THINK the answer will be making a new user and moving everything over. I have no idea what caused this, but I'll report back after more testing.
crjackson
March 31st, 2009, 11:31 AM
Well, changing themes didn't work. Making another user/profile didn't work. The only thing that works is running Firefox as root and I don't want to do this. If I can't get this sorted, it will be a deal breaker on the kids machines.

When the full release comes out, perhaps it will work fine.
crjackson
March 31st, 2009, 12:31 PM
Okay, I think it's a font issue. How do I re-install all my fonts?

I found a drop down box on the site that seems to change the language and when a Chinese symbol was selected (nothing else would even show), all the missing text appeared but it was in Chinese writing.

Help...
zevans
March 31st, 2009, 12:44 PM
Okay, I think it's a font issue. How do I re-install all my fonts?


Lazy way is to look in synaptic for all the *-fonts-* packages you have and mark them all for reinstall.

If something works as root and not as a normal user that's a classic sign that there's a permissions problem somewhere...

BTW Konqueror for me won't work with Outlook Web Access pages - get my Inbox fine but when then I click to read a message, the pane goes blank. Facebook's alright though.
crjackson
March 31st, 2009, 01:42 PM
Lazy way is to look in synaptic for all the *-fonts-* packages you have and mark them all for reinstall.

If something works as root and not as a normal user that's a classic sign that there's a permissions problem somewhere...

BTW Konqueror for me won't work with Outlook Web Access pages - get my Inbox fine but when then I click to read a message, the pane goes blank. Facebook's alright though.

GOOD CATCH! Permissions WAS the issue and it's working now.

I reset the permissions on the fonts folder recursively and now it's working fine.

Thanks...