A recent upgrade of Firefox to version 38 caused a really strange issue. The menu and dialogs in the add-on HTTPS-Everywhere from EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) now shows text in what appears to be Arabic! I do not see any of the foreign text elsewhere in Firefox nor in other programs.
By way of investigation I have done the following:
On the CentOS 6 machine - Created a blank Firefox profile, loaded the program and installed HTTPS-Everywhere - I see the Arabic text
On a CentOS 6 virtual machine running in VMWare Player - installed HTTPS-Everywhere in Firefox 36 (only English displayed) and then upgraded from the CentOS repos. I now see the Arabic text.
On an Ubuntu Mate 14.04 virtual machine running in VMWare Player - installed HTTPS-Everywhere in Firefox 37 (only English displayed) and then upgraded to Firefox 38 from the Ubuntu repos. I still see only English text.
Also a Windows 7 virtual machine with Firefox 38.0.1 HTTPS-Everywhere displays in English as expected.
This leads me to believe that the issue is related to the Firefox update from the CentOS repository. Does this sound reasonable? Has anyone else experienced this issue? Suggestions? Wait for the upstream vendor to fix the issue?
TIA,
Ken
p.s. I had posted this in CentOS 7 forum by mistake. I guess that is why only a few folks looked at it
[SOLVED] CentOS 6, Firefox 38, HTTPS-Everywhere in Arabic
Re: CentOS 6, Firefox 38, HTTPS-Everywhere to appears in Ar
There is a known issue about firefox 38 and the language display as reported in this upstream bugzilla 1221286. It is not exactly the same as what you have described but is possibly related. Either try the test package in comment 23 or wait for the update.
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Re: CentOS 6, Firefox 38, HTTPS-Everywhere to appears in Ar
And that also makes toracat's suggestion invalid, as the link provided points to EL7 packages . . .taylorkh wrote:p.s. I had posted this in CentOS 7 forum by mistake. I guess that is why only a few folks looked at it
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Re: CentOS 6, Firefox 38, HTTPS-Everywhere to appears in Ar
Hmmm
The upstream bugzilla for EL-6 is labelled "urgent", so hopefully the fixed version of firefox will be released soon.
The upstream bugzilla for EL-6 is labelled "urgent", so hopefully the fixed version of firefox will be released soon.
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Re: CentOS 6, Firefox 38, HTTPS-Everywhere to appears in Ar
Indeed. I note that there are multiple issues with Firefox 38 ESR (as released by Red Hat and rebuilt by the CentOS Project) across EL5, EL6 and EL7.toracat wrote:Hmmm
The upstream bugzilla for EL-6 is labelled "urgent", so hopefully the fixed version of firefox will be released soon.
On a personal level, I took the extreme step of downgrading the latest installed version to the previously released version on my RHEL 6.6 system. Unfortunately that was not a "good" fix, for in the meantime three of my Firefox plugins had been updated and promptly failed to work with the previously released version of Firefox.
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Re: CentOS 6, Firefox 38, HTTPS-Everywhere to appears in Ar
Thanks folks. I can report that the FF 38 upgrade from the Ubuntu 12.04 repository does NOT produce Arabic text under HTTPS-Everywhere. I have not tested to see what it did break as it is on a machine which I rarely use. I will wait for the next FF upgrade from CentOS and see what that does.
At least I now know that my browser has not been taken over by ISIS or Al-Qaeda
Ken
At least I now know that my browser has not been taken over by ISIS or Al-Qaeda
Ken
Re: [SOLVED] CentOS 6, Firefox 38
The latest update 38.0.1 just came down my wire this morning. The language problem is gone. Stick a fork in this one - it is resolved.
Ken
Ken