maverick: Firefox back/forward buttons

[Waleed Hamra]

On 02/08/2011 01:50 AM, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Reinhold Rumberger said the following at 02/05/2011 12:11 PM :
>> On Samstag 05 Februar 2011, 19:11:20, D. R. Evans wrote:
>>> On my wife's maverick system (but not on mine), the Firefox forward/back
>>> buttons are missing.
>>>
>>> After some investigation, it seems that they are present, but of zero size
>>> (i.e., it's as if FF can't find or simply isn't displaying the icons). If I
>>> set the toolbar to [icons + text] then the buttons are present and usable:
>>> it's just that there is no icon on them. Googling seems to show that this
>>> is not an unheard-of problem (although why it should occur on onely one of
>>> the three maverick systems here is a puzzle), but I haven't been able to
>>> find a fix that works.
>>>
>>> So, does anyone know how to get the forward/back icons to appear?
>>
>> You need to install gnome-icon-theme
>>
> 
> I installed it, logged out, logged back in and started FF, and nothing
> seems to look any different :-( In particular, the back/forward icons are
> still missing.
> 
>   Doc
> 
> 

i compile firefox from source on my computer, i update it about once
every month. starting from around mid-December, i had the problem you
described. the button is there, clickable (yet hard to catch, very
thin), but it has no icons. glitches in the panorama icon were common
too. i resolved it by using a different theme. i use the "strata
reloaded" theme, which is almost the same default theme of the Windows
version of FF (i know, mozilla are unfair, linux gets the crappy theme,
and windows gets the eye-candy).
i do have gnome-icon-theme installed, but it resolved nothing.
i am not sure if this is a mozilla bug or an ubuntu bug, but i think
it's the latter.

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Waleed K. Hamra
Manager of Hamra Information Systems

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