Firefox: not just yet
Well, I thought I’d actually go to Firefox but, sadly, it crashes when I use it. So, bug filed. It’s a bugger, because I was using an XFT build for the first time, and it’s really pretty by comparison with th old one. I want it! Waaah!
Have you tried the standard build with activated truetype lib?
in <firefox>/defaults/pref/unix.js
activate
pref(”font.FreeType2.enable”, true);
and
pref(”font.directory.truetype.1″, “/usr/share/fonts/ms”);
where you keep you truetype fonts. Restart and select the fonts from the font menu, which are quite at the top.
Started from a console window, you see a listing of fonts, that firefox is processing.
For me the antialiased look is arguebly as good as the XFT version.
4 hours later
Have you tried deleting your profile (after backing up important stuff, obviously)? Sometimes if you use an old profile, firebird/firefox crashes in odd ways.
33 hours later
Problem exhibits itself with a cleanly created profile, too. I tried that, because I knew the bugzilla people would ask.
33 hours later
For all I keep pimping new builds of Firebird/firefox, I’m still using Phoenix (25/11/02 - a nightly JUST after 0.4). Why? Because every version since then runs horribly on my home computer. It takes forever to do anything, and sucks up all the resources (making WinAmp stutter and stop).
34 hours later