Bug 18675 - Gnome [6sta1] Gnome: Epiphany (web-browser) often displays web-pages in plain text
Summary: Gnome [6sta1] Gnome: Epiphany (web-browser) often displays web-pages in plain...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: Mageia
Classification: Unclassified
Component: RPM Packages (show other bugs)
Version: Cauldron
Hardware: i586 Linux
Priority: Normal normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: GNOME maintainers
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Keywords: 6sta1
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Reported: 2016-06-10 10:21 CEST by Ben McMonagle
Modified: 2017-03-06 09:51 CET (History)
3 users (show)

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Source RPM: epiphany
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install report.bug.xz (151.39 KB, application/octet-stream)
2016-06-10 10:23 CEST, Ben McMonagle 		Details
screen shot of "Gnome home page" in text mode (173.11 KB, image/png)
2016-06-10 11:05 CEST, Ben McMonagle 		Details
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Description Ben McMonagle 2016-06-10 10:21:05 CEST 
Description of problem: Gnome "Web" browser often displays web pages in plain text without pictures [or adverts :-)] and hyper-text links also are not available

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Mageia-6-sta1-i586-DVD.iso
DATE.txt: Mon Jun  6 23:20:56 CEST 2016


How reproducible: most of the time


Steps to Reproduce:
1.install Gnome DE only from above .iso. reboot
2.login to DE and set online repos. update system
3.invoke " Web" browser and enter an address in the search box
Ben McMonagle 2016-06-10 10:23:02 CEST

Keywords: (none) => 6sta1

Comment 1 Ben McMonagle 2016-06-10 10:23:45 CEST 
Created attachment 7963 [details]
install report.bug.xz
Comment 2 Marja Van Waes 2016-06-10 10:51:33 CEST 
Do we have "Web"?

This might be about epiphany instead.

I can see epiphany got installed, and:

* unknown package `epiphany-extensions'

That package does indeed not seem to exist.

CC: (none) => marja11
Assignee: bugsquad => olav

Comment 3 Ben McMonagle 2016-06-10 11:05:33 CEST 
Created attachment 7964 [details]
screen shot of "Gnome home page" in text mode
Comment 4 Ben McMonagle 2016-06-11 03:29:15 CEST 
(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #2)
> Do we have "Web"?
> 
> This might be about epiphany instead.
> 
> I can see epiphany got installed, and:
> 
> * unknown package `epiphany-extensions'
> 
> That package does indeed not seem to exist.

I right clicked the icon in the task-bar, chose "about" and it calls itself "Web" 
however, from terminal requires "epiphany" to run

editing title
Ben McMonagle 2016-06-11 03:30:30 CEST

Summary: [6sta1] Gnome "Web" browser often displays web-pages in plain text => [6sta1] Gnome [6sta1] Gnome: Epiphany (web-browser) often displays web-pages in plain text

Comment 5 Thierry Vignaud 2016-06-16 14:54:57 CEST 
This is _not_ an installer bug

CC: (none) => thierry.vignaud
Component: Installer => RPM Packages
Source RPM: (none) => epiphany

Olav Vitters 2016-09-19 09:45:22 CEST

Assignee: olav => gnome

Comment 6 Pasi Pärnänen 2016-09-23 08:14:36 CEST 
I can confirm this bug. 

Gnome Web (aka Epiphany) starts fine and then renders some pages right. When the above error occurs there are error messages in the system log. Copying the URL into a new tab renders the page without error in most cases.

CC: (none) => vattuvarg

Comment 7 Pasi Pärnänen 2016-10-02 16:40:03 CEST 
The Gnome Web (aka Epiphany) browser is more or less impossible to use at the moment as too many pages are not rendered correctly.
Comment 8 Pasi Pärnänen 2017-02-04 15:22:31 CET 
epiphany-3.22.6-1.mga6 improves the behaviour significantly.
Comment 9 Marja Van Waes 2017-03-05 10:13:28 CET 
Is this bug still valid for 6sta2?

Summary: [6sta1] Gnome [6sta1] Gnome: Epiphany (web-browser) often displays web-pages in plain text => Gnome [6sta1] Gnome: Epiphany (web-browser) often displays web-pages in plain text

Comment 10 Ben McMonagle 2017-03-06 09:51:18 CET 
(In reply to Marja van Waes from comment #9)
> Is this bug still valid for 6sta2?

fixed.

some websites report the following or similar: 

" Woah. Your web browser is pretty retro.
That's cool, we still listen to records sometimes. But it does mean that some features of our site won't work for you.
If you can, we'd suggest upgrading to a modern web browser like the latest versions of Chrome, Firefox or Internet Explorer."

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED
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