Crash crash crash, FireFox unhappy

[Andy Pieters]

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.
>
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