[RndTbl] Fwd: Re: firefox font weirdness?

[Trevor Cordes]

On 2024-03-10 Adam Thompson wrote:
> You can always remove and reinstall the RPM using DNF, am I missing
> something? -Adam

Not quite so easy because repos only carry the latest rpm and the
original as-released-with-the-original-Fedora-numbered-release rpm.
Would have to go poking around koji or bodhi or whatever weird named
system has all the rpms... unless I want to go all the way back to
111.0.1-1.fc38 as released by F38.  Since I now know there are minimal
dependencies, that's actually a viable option for a quick test.

...

But I don't have to as today the 123.0.1 showed up in Fedora mirrors
and (strangely) dnf picked up on it as an update to install.  (Strange,
that means it's using dates, repo meta data outside the rpm, or
something else instead of version numbers?)

And... problem solved!  Voila.  So it was just some wacky bug in a
not-ready-for-release 123.0.2.  These types of Fedora-isms used to bite
me a few times a year, but it's been a while since the last time.  It
seemed to be getting better.  Still is, I guess.  Screwy fonts once a
year I can live with, and I love a good challenge...  I'm a bit
disappointed there were no RHBZ hits on it though.  Clearly it wasn't
"just me".

Strangely enough, overnight I did another test after finding literally
the only google hit talking about 123.0.2 and it said their
(different) problem went away if you hosed the ff profile.  So I used
firejail --private to emulate that and it too solved my problem.  So
something unique to my profile *plus* the buggy ff version = font bug.
(I did some major cleaning of my normal profile's about:config seeing
if it was some weird setting unique to me causing problems, but nothing
I did would fix it.)

Problem solved!  MUUG for the win!