uBlock Origin icons are not displayed correctly

[Pierre Rudloff]

Hello,

In the uBlock Origin menu, icons are not displayed correctly. Mojibake is displayed instead, like if the icon font was missing.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 18.10
Package: webext-ublock-origin 1.16.14+dfsg-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.18.0-11.12-generic 4.18.12
Uname: Linux 4.18.0-11-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.10-0ubuntu13.1
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: XFCE
Date: Sun Dec 2 17:13:45 2018
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-06 (970 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160323)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: ublock-origin
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

The screenshot shows version 1.9.15rc1, but the package should provide 1.16.14 instead.

[Pierre Rudloff (rudloff)]

This an (unrelated) error in the package versioning.
If you download http://fr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/u/ublock-origin/webext-ublock-origin_1.16.14+dfsg-1_all.deb and extract it, you can see that /usr/share/webext/ublock-origin/manifest.json contains this:
"version": "1.9.15.101"

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

I can confirm this issue. I have tested with 1.17.0+dfsg-2 from 19.04 also (the correct version is shown in this case).

[Theo Linkspfeifer (lastonestanding)]

Related report: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=827517

However, creating an absolute symbolic link instead did not fix the problem for me either. Only copying over the font did:

$ sudo cp --remove-destination /usr/share/fonts/truetype/font-awesome/fontawesome-webfont.ttf /usr/share/webext/ublock-origin/css/fonts/

[Mantas Kriaučiūnas (mantas)]

Issue is fixed in ublock-origin (1.17.0+dfsg-3):
  * Replace symlink to fontawesome-webfont with a real file again. Firefox
    silently ignored this symlink and icons were not displayed. This also fixes
    the logger window which was empty before. (Closes: #916431, #906911)
 -- Markus Koschany <email address hidden> Sat, 15 Dec 2018 14:24:36 +0000