Comment 47 for bug 37828

I don’t agree. It may decrease the severity of the overall _situation_ for Ubuntu users, but it does nothing to decrease the severity of the Firefox bug as such. For any webpage that requests a font besides DejaVu that uses ligatures, and for any user who would like to set another font with ligatures as his default, the bug is still there in full force. And it makes text illegible, text that can be in online payment forms, contracts, etc.! If that isn’t major, then I don’t know what is.

Also, it seems to be the same bug that breaks display of Devanagari when rendered justified, see e.g. the first entry in

http://depts.washington.edu/ebmp/bibliography.php

(for comparison, switch off the style sheet on that page).

So the Firefox developers _really_ need to get their act together and implement proper non-buggy Pango support. And until they are done doing that (it will be a year or so), the Ubuntu Firefox packagers just have to think of something to alleviate the problem – something less feeble than switching off ligatures in this or that individual font (which as a sideeffect, of course, deprives all the rest of the GUI of ligatures, where they worked just fine).

Now I don’t want to get into a game where somebody decreases the severity of this bug, then I increase it again, and so an ad infinitum. So please do let me know whether you agree with my reasoning above, and if not please tell me why, before I go and change the severity back to Major. Thank you.