firefox loseing content? please help

ahronzombi · 2009-04-05 22:42:24

after using firefox for a little while i just start looseing peaces of the interface and web pages whats wrong, ive tried on multiple accounts and reset all the settings files but it comes back. Im using Arch Linux x64

Thanks for all the help guys

Last edited by ahronzombi (2009-04-07 02:51:41)

SamC · 2009-04-05 22:50:20

What fonts do you have installed?

ahronzombi · 2009-04-05 22:54:22

im not sure exactly what they all are, is their a quick way i can provide these to you?

SamC · 2009-04-05 23:02:47

'pacman -Qs ttf' is probably a good start.

ahronzombi · 2009-04-05 23:04:38

thanx for the quick tip

local/ttf-dejavu 2.29-1
    Font family based on the Bitstream Vera Fonts with a wider range of characters
local/ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-2
    Core TTF Fonts from Microsoft

SamC · 2009-04-05 23:07:51

That seems fine. Have you tried reinstalling firefox and xulrunner?

ahronzombi · 2009-04-05 23:18:43

Yes, i started having this problem a while back, since then ive upgraded from i686 to x64, ive also tried beta aur builds of firefox

SamC · 2009-04-05 23:28:54

Hmm. I've never experienced anything like this, so I'm not sure if I can help you any further. Does it happen in any other xulrunner-based applications?

ahronzombi · 2009-04-05 23:30:21

im not sure i have any installed ill try galeon thats one right?

SamC · 2009-04-05 23:33:28

I'm not sure. I'd try either songbird or thunderbird.

ahronzombi · 2009-04-05 23:58:02

im building songbird, ill let you know. this sucks no one knows the answer and neither does google

haxit · 2009-04-05 23:58:06

I am sorry, but this is halarious. For now use midiori until your problem is fixed, and if you like that, stick with it.

ahronzombi · 2009-04-06 00:05:36

actually i am using midori , its ok but i cant use ff plugins and flash crashes it some times

ahronzombi · 2009-04-06 13:34:48

the people in the mozilla forum say they have seen this before but can rember why. im sticking with midori for now

Army · 2009-04-06 20:35:34

Did you try to create a new user and test it from its profile?

ahronzombi · 2009-04-06 21:04:47

Army wrote:

Did you try to create a new user and test it from its profile?

yes that was one of the first things i tried

ahronzombi · 2009-04-07 01:33:27

to double check i just created a new profile but it happened again after using it for a while, could it be a font problem? i noticed fonts start becomeing weird box symbols right before this happens

this terminal error makes me wander

Xlib:  extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":20.0".

(firefox:1550): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Arial Bold 9.427734375'

(firefox:1550): Pango-WARNING **: font_font status is: invalid matrix (not invertible)

(firefox:1550): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: invalid matrix (not invertible)

(firefox:1550): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Arial Bold 9.427734375', text=' '

(firefox:1550): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Verdana Bold 12'

(firefox:1550): Pango-WARNING **: font_font status is: invalid matrix (not invertible)

(firefox:1550): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: invalid matrix (not invertible)

(firefox:1550): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Verdana Bold 12', text=' '

Last edited by ahronzombi (2009-04-07 01:36:21)

ahronzombi · 2009-04-07 01:47:51

i just duplicated the fail in another profile similar error

irefox:12869): Pango-WARNING **: failed to create cairo scaled font, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Verdana Bold 8.5712890625'

(firefox:12869): Pango-WARNING **: font_font status is: invalid matrix (not invertible)

(firefox:12869): Pango-WARNING **: scaled_font status is: invalid matrix (not invertible)

(firefox:12869): Pango-WARNING **: shaping failure, expect ugly output. shape-engine='BasicEngineFc', font='Verdana Bold 8.5712890625', text=' '

richardmurri · 2009-04-07 22:05:16

Do you use firebug? I've had similar issues with recent builds.

ahronzombi · 2009-04-08 00:07:44

richardmurri wrote:

Do you use firebug? I've had similar issues with recent builds.

no i dont is that a way to report bugs?

ahronzombi · 2009-04-10 00:28:40

i think i fixed it, unfortunately i didnt document exactly how, but basically i followed the wiki for setting up lcd font smoothing for arch, then rebooted

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