RE: [viewvc-users] firefox update seems to have broken viewvc

From: C. Michael Pilato
> On 10/20/2014 12:19 PM, David Laight wrote:
> > We have a rather old version of viewvc (1.1.5) running on an internal c=
vs server.
> > This has all worked fine for ages.
> > However after firefox updated itself to 33.0 the formatting from viewvc=
 is all broken.
> > The biggest problem is that all the whitespace is collapsed out.
> >
> > Unfortunately firefox makes it very difficult to go back to the previou=
s version.
> > (It all displays correctly on a different system, so no one has changed=
 our cvs server.)
> >
> > At a guess there is something wrong with the style sheet - but I'm no H=
TML expert
> > (I just write device drivers for a living).
> >
> > A quick look through the viewvc changelog didn't show anything obvious.
> >
> > I'm also not sure that upgrading to viewvc 1.1.22 will be seamless.
>=20
> Hrm.  I can't think of any reason why whitespace would be rendered
> differently in Firefox 33.0.  I'm able successfully view a local ViewVC
> 1.1.5 installation using Firefox 33.0 (Ubuntu Linux), in fact.  Have you
> tried clearing out your browser caches?

Someone here who knows more about browsers discovered that the style sheet
wasn't being applied, the found that it is probably this bug:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D1083090


Seems firefox tightened up on rejecting bad/mismatched headers on css and j=
s.
Solution is to disable on-the-fly compression of the stylesheet at the serv=
er end.

So Mozilla have just broken a lot of web sites.

=09David

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