Thank you for your suggestions. With kind regards Andy On Friday 26 August 2005 14:12, James Wilkinson wrote: > 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 $LANG set to? > > * if you're installing from a download site, there is always the chance > of an incompatibility between what you're downloading and what Fedora > provides. As a last resort, you might find that building from scratch > gets you something more stable. I haven't done that for ages, and not > for Firefox. I used to for Mozilla, though[1]: it took ages on my old > PC, but the end result worked fine. > > * You've tried reinstalling Firefox itself, but you haven't checked the > underlying system libraries. They *are* installed from RPMs, and you > could check them using my suggestion. > > Hope this helps, > > James. > [1] I can't remember why: I think I wanted some of the updated features, > but the precompiled download used GTK1 with the un-aliased fonts. > > -- > E-mail address: james | Which do you consider was the stronger swimmer, > @westexe.demon.co.uk | (a) The Spanish Armadillo, > > | (b) The Great Seal? > | -- '1066 and All That' -- Registered Linux User Number 379093 Now listening to [silence] amaroK::the Coolest Media Player in the known Universe! Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. Herb Caen -- -- --BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GAT/O/>E$ d-(---)>+ s:(+)>: a--(-)>? C++++$(+++) UL++++>++++$ P-(+)>++ L+++>++++$ E---(-)@ W+++>+++$ !N@ o? !K? W--(---) !O !M- V-- PS++(+++) PE--(-) Y+ PGP++(+++) t+(++) 5-- X++ R*(+)@ !tv b-() DI(+) D+(+++) G(+) e>++++$@ h++(*) r-->++ y--()>++++ -- ---END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- Check out these few php utilities that I released under the GPL2 and that are meant for use with a php cli binary: http://www.vlaamse-kern.com/sas/ --
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