Firefox 3.0.14 expands each space to the equivalent of three spaces.

[Alex Chigos]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

After updating my Ubuntu 8.04 Firefox-3.0 to 3.0.14 rv:1.9.0.14 all screens, menus, bookmarks on the toolbars and content show as if each space separating consecutive words was actually three spaces. Even while typing this note, as I press the space bar the cursor jumps as if I had instead pressed the TAB key. 2 consecutive spaces appear as 6 and so on.

This changes a sentence or a paragraph into a scattered list of all but unreadable disconnected words.

As a result Firefox has become unusable.

I am running Ubuntu 8.04.3 LTS, kernel 2.6.24-24-generic

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Oct 7 09:51:05 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.14+build2+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 LC_COLLATE=POSIX
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-24-generic i686

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Sometimes Firefox profiles can become corrupt and/or extensions can conflict. Could you please try this with a new profile and see if the problem still exists? You do not need to delete your old profile to test. If this helps, you might want to try to disable all your extensions and re-enable them one by one until you find the problematic one.

You can start the profile manager with the following command:
firefox -ProfileManager

[Alex Chigos (alex-x-med)]

I received a solution from Canonical (Ubuntu) support.
The solution is to remove the package libgraphite3 using the Synaptic package manager.
Then, restarting Firefox.
The problem was corrected and the screen now looks normal.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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