223814 - Firebird doesn't show lines of text (in webpages) containing a " symbol.

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Corrado]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031015 Firebird/0.7

if a webpage contains a line of text with a ", the whole line won't be shown.
You can see also a bizarre behaviour when trying to select the text of the line
(or a few lines including the one with the ") with the mouse.

The problem is there since at least version 0.6, but it seemed too obvious for
me to report it; since in version 0.7 it's still there, well...

I'm using a Mandrake 9.1 distro, with stock KDE.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Choose a webpage containing a " in the text
2. When you see a line w/o text, try hilighting it with the mouse
3. if you see some text appearing, bingo!



Expected Results:  
show every line of the webpage :-)

I've got a few snapshots showing the problem; 4-5 PNG's, 100+kb each.

I'm not attaching them since the behaviour can easily be reproduced (at least,
on my machines; they both use Mandrake 9.1)

Comment 1

[Bob Firth]

This WFM Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6a) Gecko/20031024
Firebird/0.7+

Comment regarding link was: look at the blank line after 'But the real question
is whether '

Please don't put comments in the URL field, it makes the link very hard to follow.

What does the hidden line say on your computer? I can see:

But the real question is whether it's the software or the hardware at fault – so
we guess LG has to battle it out with the software vendors.

And I can't find any hidden text around it.

Comment 2

[Simon Paquet [:sipaq]]

I'm not seeing this either on a 2003-10-30 WinXP build.
I haven't seen any other bugreport like it and bugzilla would be swamped with
bugreports if such an obvious bug would happen.

Probably a bad profile or a hosed Mandrake install.

-> WORKSFORME.

Comment 3

[Bob Firth]

yuppo