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* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255982 '''Bug 255982:''' – hang (infinite loop) printing floats over page break where containing box contains no non-float items] |
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255982 '''Bug 255982:''' – hang (infinite loop) printing floats over page break where containing box contains no non-float items] |
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* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285608 '''Bug 285608:''' – hangs when page with float printed] |
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285608 '''Bug 285608:''' – hangs when page with float printed] ('''Status''': Patch under review) |
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* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323652 '''Bug 323652:''' – Print Preview or Print hangs with 100% CPU load] - This bug has become a "meta" bug that tracks a few bugs. |
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=323652 '''Bug 323652:''' – Print Preview or Print hangs with 100% CPU load] - This bug has become a "meta" bug that tracks a few bugs. |
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* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331039 '''Bug 331039:''' – Hang in printing with floats with overflow:auto] - Firefox hangs when printing [[de:Bruttoinlandsprodukt]] and [[en:Solstice]] ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376218 '''Bug 376218''']) and [[en:Poland]] ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367508 '''Bug 367508''']). This bug affects a large number of situations where infoboxes and images are consecutively placed along the right hand side of the article in such a way that one crosses the page break. The layout engine infinitely loops while trying to decide which page the floated block should appear on. |
* [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=331039 '''Bug 331039:''' – Hang in printing with floats with overflow:auto] - Firefox hangs when printing [[de:Bruttoinlandsprodukt]] and [[en:Solstice]] ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=376218 '''Bug 376218''']) and [[en:Poland]] ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=367508 '''Bug 367508''']). This bug affects a large number of situations where infoboxes and images are consecutively placed along the right hand side of the article in such a way that one crosses the page break. The layout engine infinitely loops while trying to decide which page the floated block should appear on. |
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Revision as of 01:44, 20 June 2007
This is a list of known Firefox bugs that affect MediaWiki sites such as Wikipedia.
The aim is to create a list of the top 10 bugs that affect MediaWiki. If we can get a consensus on what these bugs are, we may be able to officially submit a request from the Wikimedia Foundation to the Mozilla Foundation to address these issues with some priority.
Open bugs
Misc
- Bug 79021: All stylesheets are loaded regardless of rendering media - Results in loading stylesheets that are not required, which makes the Wikipedia load slower and with more bandwidth used than is necessary (although it does still work).
- Bug 184452: Necko - Allow handling of files > 2gig (>2 GB) - Downloading large dumps over http via Mozilla browsers will fail.
- Bug 14984: Tables overlap right floats (e.g., right-aligned images or tables) — right-aligned images (e.g. thumbnails) and right-aligned tables (e.g. taxonomy templates, portraits+biography, etc.) are overlapped by wide tables.
Non-latin character encoding
- Bug 366797: Revise the Location Bar - Instead of showing encoded URLs like http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BF%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%96%D1%8F in the address bar, show stuff like http://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Вікіпедія which a Ukrainian speaker could presumably understand, versus no hope of understanding the earlier version. This occurs on all articles with non-ascii names and affects most non-English Wikipedias.
- The workaround is to use the Firefox extension Locationbar², which provides several anti-spoofing features that can be disabled, and Human URL.
- See also Bug 150376 and Bug 105909.
- Bug 322777: – Links overlap at Gujarati wiki projects: gu.wikipedia gu.wiktionary gu.wikibooks if page contains RTL characters - gu:Main Page renders the site notice at the top incorrectly.
- Bug 356049: Firefox 2.0 won't render Unicode Indic Fonts correctly even with the correct fonts installed, see w:Wikipedia:Enabling complex text support for Indic scripts#Check for existing support and #Unicode fonts
Save Page
There are a number of limitations in Firefox's "Save Page" action. The workaround is to use the Firefox extension ScrapBook, or Mozilla Archive Format may be suitable for Firefox 1.5.x users.
- Bug 126309: Save page does not save @import -ed CSS - this makes saved pages from Wikipedia very ugly, as the required screen stylesheet is not saved together with the page.
- Bug 115107: CSS not fixed up by webbrowserpersist ("save page as, complete" omits background images) - Relative links to images or other media included in CSS are not resolved when saving a local copy. Currently not an issue until bug 126309 is fixed, but then will be a problem. Absolute links will work but require web connection.
- Bug 372474: After "save page as, complete" opening the saved page is missing all images - Encoded image filename in the saved HTML does not point to the saved image, resulting in images not being displayed in the local copy.
Printing
- Bug 255982: – hang (infinite loop) printing floats over page break where containing box contains no non-float items
- Bug 285608: – hangs when page with float printed (Status: Patch under review)
- Bug 323652: – Print Preview or Print hangs with 100% CPU load - This bug has become a "meta" bug that tracks a few bugs.
- Bug 331039: – Hang in printing with floats with overflow:auto - Firefox hangs when printing de:Bruttoinlandsprodukt and en:Solstice (Bug 376218) and en:Poland (Bug 367508). This bug affects a large number of situations where infoboxes and images are consecutively placed along the right hand side of the article in such a way that one crosses the page break. The layout engine infinitely loops while trying to decide which page the floated block should appear on.
- Bug 360224: Cannot print the Wikipedia french article on Mercure (the planet) - Firefox hangs when preparing the layout of fr:Mercure (planète). This is a duplicate of one of the other bugs.
- Bug 350684: – Print preview of Wikipedia page hangs if scale factor other than 100% - SeaMonkey hangs if the scaling of pages to be printed is not 100%. A lot of the traffic on this bug is noise due to the other bugs that also cause the browser to hang when printing.
Fixed bugs, not yet released
- Bug 218277: losing Unicode no-break spaces - saving article with Firefox will convert all no-break spaces 0xA0 into standard spaces 0x20. Mostly affects French and Russian Wikipedias. Fixed only in Firefox 3 (release planned on November 2007).
- MediaWiki needs its bug 6790 fixed (a workaround patch applied) to work with older versions of Firefox. (The bug is not fixed yet, though it has a patch proposed.)