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Problem description:

I have firefox (Hebrew) 4.0 installed on Ubuntu 16.04 and it shows Hebrew fonts like so (the rectangles with Unicode addresses should be Hebrew letters):

haifa.muni.il

Can you suggest where the problem lies, and optionally, how to solve it?


Background:

I need to use an older firefox, because filling Hebrew forms online is only supported with firefox up to version 4.

These are the steps I took to install the Hebrew firefox:

wget https://releases.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/4.0/linux-x86_64/he/firefox-4.0.tar.bz2
tar xvf firefox-4.0.tar.bz2
sudo mv firefox/ /opt/firefox4he
sudo mv /usr/bin/firefox /usr/bin/firefox4us
sudo ln -s /opt/firefox4he/firefox /usr/bin/firefox

Edit 1:

Following @Nisheet suggestion, I did sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer culmus

Now Hebrew is not seen at all:

with culmus

boardrider
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  • Try and see if this helps.

    sudo apt-get install ttf-mscorefonts-installer culmus

     – Nisheet Jan 11 '17 at 11:18
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    Possible duplicate of Fonts look strange in firefox – Nisheet Jan 11 '17 at 11:19
  • See Edit 1, @Nisheet. – boardrider Jan 11 '17 at 12:31
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    Does this work? I am not really sure, since the firefox you are using is a pretty old version. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/hebrew-il-language-pack/ – Nisheet Jan 11 '17 at 13:11
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    Please keep in mind that Firefox 4 is extremely vulnerable to exploits in its rendering engine and JavaScript parser. – Nonny Moose Jan 11 '17 at 13:14
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    Install the fonts-sil-ezra package. – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Jan 11 '17 at 13:46
  • Thanks for the tip, @Nonny but there's not much I can no about it, as it's only FF 3.8, 3.9 and 4.0 to choose from. – boardrider Jan 11 '17 at 20:20
  • My system informs me fonts-sil-ezra is already the newest version (2.51-8), @Gunnar. – boardrider Jan 11 '17 at 20:23
  • Maybe you need to adjust Firefox's fonts settings (Edit -> Preferences -> Content -> Fonts & Colors). – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Jan 11 '17 at 20:46
  • @boardrider Yeah, sorry I couldn't be of any real help. I just thought I'd throw that out there. – Nonny Moose Jan 11 '17 at 21:05
  • You don't need an ancient Firefox version to display the fonts correctly. Could you please try the Firefox version that comes with Ubuntu? It displays the Hebrew text fine, but when I try to access the online forms it asks me to install some "browser toolbar extension" and the link to the add-on file returns a web site with an "unsupported operation" message. (The additional fuck-up being, that the web server sends response code 200 ("OK") instead of one of the error codes (400–599) for a resource that cannot be found.) – David Foerster Jan 12 '17 at 09:17

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