Andy Pieters wrote:
> I thank you for your suggestion but it won't work since I installed FireFox
> directly from the download site. Using the rpm results in a FireFox with
> illegible fonts.
Um. Three points:
* you might find it easier to troubleshoot the illegible fonts than the
crashes. Which X driver are you using? Are the menus illegible, or is
it just your web pages? Are the fonts completely illegible, or do you
just find them hard to read -- and how? What is $LANG set to?
* if you're installing from a download site, there is always the chance
of an incompatibility between what you're downloading and what Fedora
provides. As a last resort, you might find that building from scratch
gets you something more stable. I haven't done that for ages, and not
for Firefox. I used to for Mozilla, though[1]: it took ages on my old
PC, but the end result worked fine.
* You've tried reinstalling Firefox itself, but you haven't checked the
underlying system libraries. They *are* installed from RPMs, and you
could check them using my suggestion.
Hope this helps,
James.
[1] I can't remember why: I think I wanted some of the updated features,
but the precompiled download used GTK1 with the un-aliased fonts.
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