PKP Bugzilla – Bug 7227
TinyMCE and Firefox 11 incompatibility issues
Last modified: 2012-06-07 12:30:36 PDT
It appears that our current version(s) of TinyMCE don't work well with Firefox 11. See http://www.tinymce.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=28400 for a thread on the issue on the TinyMCE forum. Problem: if a page has multiple TinyMCE fields, only one appears properly. The others don't appear, although any previously-entered HTML field text is still there (and can be seen and edited if the "HTML" button is clicked). Solution: upgrade to a more recent version of the tinyMCE plugin from http://www.tinymce.com/download/download.php. TinyMCE currently resides in /lib/pkp/lib/scripts/. Simply replacing that code with the most recent version of TinyMCE isn't entirely sufficient, as we use a third-party image uploader plugin that has to be accounted for. I'm currently testing TinyMCE version 3.5b for inclusion in stable and master and will provide a patch shortly.
*** Bug 7228 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Created attachment 3725 [details] Gzipped patch against ojs-stable-2_3 This compressed patch can be applied to/in /lib/pkp. A few notes: -- This patch is against lib/pkp branch ojs-stable-2_3. It should apply fine to OJS 2.3.7 (apply to lib/pkp/ directory). You may have to update some images manually; I'll try and get a compressed version of this plugin online shortly. -- This update includes TinyMCE 3.4.9 and Compressor 2.0.4 PHP. Turns out the "b" in "3.5b2" does stand for beta, so I opted for the other production release. -- Also includes the recently-included jbimages plugin. -- I've tested these versions against OJS 2.3.7 and 2.4 (ie. stable and master) with Firefox 11, and all seems well: all TinyMCE fields appear, and I double-checked that jbimages continues to work. I'd like to perform a few more tests before committing this, though. Any feedback appreciated.
A tar file of the updated /lib/pkp/lib/tinymce/ directory can be downloaded from here: http://pkp.sfu.ca/files/tinymce_update.tar.gz. This update should work fine for OJS 2.3.7, OCS 2.3.4, OHS 2.3.2, and the master branches of each. OJS 2.3.6/OCS 2.3.3/OHS 2.3.1 and below should either upgrade first or apply the fixes listed in Bug 7207, otherwise the jbimages plugin will not work. To apply: 1) back up your OJS install directory; 2) download tinymce_update.tar.gz, listed above; 3) delete the lib/pkp/lib/tinymce directory in your OJS install; 4) decompress and move all contents of tinymce_update.tar.gz to lib/pkp/lib/, so that you now have a new lib/pkp/lib/tinymce directory; 5) clear your browser cache, test that multiple tinymce fields are appearing as they should, and test that tinymce image uploading is also working properly.
Looks like this breaks the CMA setup too -- unable to change settings for a given Parser/Connector service or remove them once they've been added. Broken in Chrome, FF, Opera.
Dropping in an updated TinyMCE lib appears not to work here. Any other changes to grid rendering that would've affected this? Seems like it might be a different bug after all.
(In reply to comment #5) > Dropping in an updated TinyMCE lib appears not to work here. Any other changes > to grid rendering that would've affected this? Seems like it might be a > different bug after all. Hi Alex, The CMA setup fields don't use TinyMCE at all -- that's all grid stuff. And I can't seem to replicate this, regardless (on ojs-stable at least). Perhaps try a fresh checkout, and open in a new bug if you continue to see the problem?
I followed the procedure under comment 3, and the text is now showing in the text boxes. But now the graphics providing buttons for editing etc are now not showing. Instead I get a red cross and "upload an image" message. I have checked read/write permissions on the relevant files on the server. The properties for that object indicate that the page is looking for something in a path that includes /git before /ojs etc. I don't have a /git directory on my site - is this the problem, or does /git stand for something else (e.g. alias to the public_html)? I'm using OJS 2.3.7
Hi Paul (and others reading), There is a bundled file in the jscripts/ directory that should be deleted. It is called '3a20bc12e08039d595aa7823d88a0a3a.gz'. It's a compressed archive that gets created as a cache in some cases, and you can safely remove it. Doing so will solve the issue. Regards, Jason
(In reply to comment #8) > Hi Paul (and others reading), > > There is a bundled file in the jscripts/ directory that should be deleted. It > is called '3a20bc12e08039d595aa7823d88a0a3a.gz'. It's a compressed archive > that gets created as a cache in some cases, and you can safely remove it. Doing > so will solve the issue. > > Regards, > Jason Thank you Jason - I can confirm that this fixed that problem Paul
Hi all, FYI, Firefox 12 Fixes this issue.
Can we close this now that firefox fixed the problem, or is this a good time to upgrade TinyMCE anyway? 3.5 is out of beta (actually they are at 3.5.2) and there looks like there are a good number of fixes.
James, I'm content to direct people to update their browsers for this one; it hit a lot of other apps too.