Broken fonts in updated Nightly about nixpkgs-mozilla

[jtojnar]

Setting security.sandbox.content.read_path_whitelist to /nix/store/ is a simple workaround for the issue (taken from bugzilla).

[hedning]

Having the same issue here. Opened a bug on bugzilla, and it didn't seem to be reproducible in Ubuntu, so it seems to be partly nix related. Buildid 20170725144053 and later are broken for me, while buildid 20170725100346 works.

[nbp]

Updating nightly now should fix the issue, as Bug 1385253 is now closed, by adding the /nix/store path to the default set of paths, and that the sandbox got backed out.

Note, that any fonts which are added in the home directory of the users might probably require the same about:config trick.

[nbp]

Note, after merging #54 , firefox-nightly-bin will automagically take the latest versions form Mozilla servers. Which implies that the hashes of your distribution will change every-day even if you pin a specific nixpkgs-mozilla version.

If you want a stable version, you will have to use the manually updated reproducible.firefox-nightly-bin attribute.

I personally do not install nightly system-wide, but start it with:

 $ nix-shell -p firefox-nightly-bin --command firefox

-- edit: fix typos.

[nbp]

Note, after merging #54 , firefox-nightly-bin will automagically take the latest version for Mozilla servers. Which implies 2 things. The hashes of your distribution will change every-day even if you pin a specific nixpkgs-mozilla version.

If you want a stable version, you will have to use the manually updated reproducible.firefox-nightly-bin attribute.

I personally do not install nightly system-wise, but start it with:

 $ nix-shell -p firefox-nightly-bin --command firefox