Firefox 2 does not show RSS Feed preview

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Doesn't show RSS Feed preview... The answer is here:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=353240

Thanks! Fix that please...

I can confirm this problem. It's a shame that we can't enjoy this exciting new feature. I hope it will be fixed soon.

Thank you!

Same here. Just adding a comment to mention that it's not just the preview. This also stops you from adding a feed.

Since, from the Mozilla bug, the xsl of a feed is part of the theme, here is a screenshot using Firefox's default theme.

I can't see any XML data there.. Try to download from Mozilla FTP and see the real diference. I like to see it in XML, before subscribe anything.

Well this is the view that Firefox gives of an XML feed document. So it seems the XSL is broken.

This ought to be fixed before the release either by uploading RC2 or patching it ourselves.

Any ETA on the new firefox version? It's been a quite while.

This problem still occurs for me using 1.99+2.0rc2+dfsg-0ubuntu1.

I am using the RC2 that was just released and this problem still occurs. I have found a workaround which is to just change the feed settings to do a specific action instead of asking what to do every time.

Why do I think Ubuntu Firefox maintainer doesn't listen to us? It's still the same in this update for RC2..

I can confirm that this isn't yet fixed in RC2 here, either

Confirmed on: Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/0000000000 BonEcho/2.0 (Ubuntu-edgy)

I can't imagine Edgy released with this bug... Please, we are at the release candidate stage!

I'd like to confirm that not only does this break the display of feed previews, it stops the 'Subscribe Now' button working as well, so it's impossible to subscribe to any feeds.

I agree ths is a very serious bug but fyi note there is a workaround
posted in this bug already: in preferences --> Feeds, set ANY option
other than "ask"; you will then be able to at least subscribe to feeds
again. It's not perfect, but better than the completely broken status
we have now!

matt

On Thu, 2006-19-10 at 14:02 +0000, Alf Eaton wrote:
> I'd like to confirm that not only does this break the display of feed
> previews, it stops the 'Subscribe Now' button working as well, so it's
> impossible to subscribe to any feeds.
>

This is an Ubuntu only bug (as said on the Mozilla Bugzilla) and should be fixed in Edgy definitely. I'd suggest to set the milestone to ubuntu-610.

Frank, is this related to the Human firefox theme?

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I can - of course - only speak for me but I do not have
firefox-themes-ubuntu installed and the same issue appears to me.

Can anyone else verify that this also happens with the upstream Firefox
theme?
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Yes it also happens for me with the default firefox theme.

Ubuntu uses flat chrome instead of jarfiles, for some reason (its a negative hit to perf due to file I/O). This means the security check fails on the feed preview page, because the URL scheme is different.

This was fixed upstream in bug 343360, but because its really more of a developer build flag, we didn't take it on branch because it was already past RC1 freeze.

This should definitely make Edgy, the patch was retested by hacking the Edgy package (I don't have a build tree with Ubuntu's source).

Another thing.. It doesn't resume session if we close firefox with open tabs. And it works on RC3 mozilla tarball version.

Check this out please!

I don't see that on my Edgy install. Are you talking about after a crash, or with the pref to always resume set? Both work here, but maybe that's because of this patch? If someone can get the package fixed so you could test, that'd be great.

Exactly. But at my Windows Vista RC2 with Firefox RC3, if I close it with open tabs and say "yes" to close all of them. After I open Firefox again and it ask me to resume my session. That doesn't happen in Edgy Firefox version.

Maybe something is wrong.. =)

If you're closing the app and its prompting you to restore session, that's a bad shutdown. If you set the pref in the prefwindow, you won't get a prompt.

Try setting "When Firefox starts" to "Open my windows and tabs from last time" and test.

Where is that option ? I can't see it in Preferences, it should be at Tabs maybe.

I'm waiting for the release of Firefox with fixed RSS view.

Thanks!

Unfortunately, this patch does not apply cleanly to our tree (the offsets are far different and the context is slightly different).

Also, my javascript isn't great, but isn't there a missing semicolon here?

+ newURI(SUBSCRIBE_PAGE_URI, "", null)

Yes, that'll throw a strict warning, but still work.

I'm surprised the patch doesn't apply cleanly, but maybe it was written for trunk? Should be trivial to make the change by hand though.

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Okay, I prepared a patch which applies against our Firefox
(1.99+2.0rc3+dfsg-0ubuntu1). Could anyone please prepare a patched .deb
so that we can try if this fixes the problem?
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I've tested and uploaded this patch, but the queue is frozen for builds. If it becomes necessary to roll another with a small batch of fixes, this will be included, otherwise it will be a candidate for a post-release update.

This will be in the next release build, and thusly in 6.10 final.

Thanks! :-) Finally the problem was fixed. Tomorrow is Firefox v2.0 day, and thursday Ubuntu Edgy :-)

Happy release! We're all waiting for it..

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So, the patch fixes the issue?
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Okay, didn't look at it carefully enough :-)

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:45:08AM -0000, Martin Jürgens wrote:
> So, the patch fixes the issue?

Yes, it did for me.

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 - mdz

Issue has recurred in Feisty with 2.0.0.1+1-0ubuntu1. Changelog includes this entry:

"drop FeedWriter.js patch, no rational available."

This is a regression. I saw no changelog entry about this bug report. Now we learned the rational of this patch the hard way. Will reapply asap.

importance high, as this is a regression in latest feisty upload.

fix in feisty: 2.0.0.2+1-0ubuntu1