need word-wrap option

[perpetualrabbit]

Binary package hint: firefox

In many web pages, such as this one: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2007-October/002726.html,
I encounter sentences with no end-of-line. This results in very long lines, that run out of the viewable window, and I must use the scrollbar to read the whole sentence. Sometimes the whole text is on one line. It is very inconvenient and makes such text almost unreadable.

To fix this, firefox could include an option in the right-click menu to word-wrap lines that run out of the window. Wrapping too long lines does not have to be the default behaviour, but having it as an option would be very handy.

I'm sorry, this is not a bug persé, but I hope someone will pick this up anyway.

Just my humble contribution,

thanks for a great browser and good luck!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Oct 19 14:50:48 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.6+1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux bosch 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Thu Aug 30 23:16:15 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

this isn't a bug in firefox, but a problem of the website.

Thanks,
 - Alexander

[perpetualrabbit (perpetualrabbit)]

Hello Alexander,

you are right of course. I know it is not a bug, but still I would like
to have this word-wrap function to deal with problematic websites, as
you say.
Please consider this a feature request. Firefox naturally has
word-wrapping built-in; I just need an option to apply it to a selection
of text, or to a certain page or frame or whatever.

I was kind of hoping this request would "bubble up"to the right person
if I submitted it as a bug.

best wishes,

Roland Nagtegaal

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 10:13 +0000, Alexander Sack wrote:
> this isn't a bug in firefox, but a problem of the website.
>
> Thanks,
> - Alexander
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Invalid
>