Comment 51 for bug 37828

Simos: I don’t know if there is a runtime option to disable the new (and much appreciated!) Latin ligature support in Pango. This would maybe have to take the form of an Ubuntu‐only temporary patch to Pango. Or maybe one could statically link just the Ubuntu Firefox against such a patched Pango, and keep a regular ligature‐enabled Pango for the rest of the system? (Sorry, as you can tell, I am not very sure what is technically feasible.)

As for fixing Firefox itself, please see the link to the upstream bug above, and Robert O’Callahan’s blog entry at:

http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2006/02/post_1.html

It sounds like they are on it, but that it will take a long time for this work to be finished (in Firefox 3.0, maybe, late next year). Another question is whether some acceptable partial solution could be backported before then.