This is

as days pass by, by Stuart Langridge

. Here I write about many things. In the past I wrote about other things but the past is past. I write code for people to play with, I write about my life on Twitter, and I write here.

On I wrote Firefox: not just yet, on the subject of Uncategorized.

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!

Frank Ridderbusch

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.

Anonymous

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.

sil

Problem exhibits itself with a cleanly created profile, too. I tried that, because I knew the bugzilla people would ask.

Gary Fleming

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).

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