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amunimanghi

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Registered: 2006-11-21

Posts: 78

Nothing displays correctly in Firefox (Solved)

Hi,

I've been having a problem with firefox after I installed it on a freshly installed Arch installation. It was working fine for about 2 hours. Then, after that it just stopped displaying things correctly. It is kind of hard to explain so please take a look at the picture below.

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j292/ … irefox.png
Anyone know what causes this and how to fix it?
Thanks in advance.

~Amunimanghi

Last edited by amunimanghi (2007-06-24 23:34:45)

N1ckR

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From: West Yorkshire, UK

Registered: 2007-05-25

Posts: 39

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Re: Nothing displays correctly in Firefox (Solved)

Looks like your fonts sizes have changed (somehow).

Check your text-size is normal - ctrl + 0 or from the Menu - View -> Text Size.

Then check your font sizes in the options/preference. Default should be 16px.

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hacosta

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From: Mexico

Registered: 2006-10-22

Posts: 423

Re: Nothing displays correctly in Firefox (Solved)

not sure if this will do it, but it might be worth checking.. get gtkchtheme and try setting another font and restarting firefox

antonik

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Registered: 2007-05-08

Posts: 26

Re: Nothing displays correctly in Firefox (Solved)

As a last measure try deleting your or moving to another place ~/.mozilla then run firefox again...

amunimanghi

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Registered: 2006-11-21

Posts: 78

Re: Nothing displays correctly in Firefox (Solved)

Looks like your fonts sizes have changed (somehow).

Check your text-size is normal - ctrl + 0 or from the Menu - View -> Text Size.

Then check your font sizes in the options/preference. Default should be 16px.

I did the first part. Everything is correct. However, I cannot navigate to where the font size is in the preferences because it doesn't display the preferences correctly either.

not sure if this will do it, but it might be worth checking.. get gtkchtheme and try setting another font and restarting firefox

I did that and it worked for about 1 second then it changed back. No font change ever fixes it again.

I did start firefox from the terminal and I got this error:

(firefox-bin:5081): Gtk-WARNING **: Default font does not have a positive size

mcmillan

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Registered: 2006-04-06

Posts: 737

Re: Nothing displays correctly in Firefox (Solved)

Try going to about:config in your browser. There's a bunch of values for font.size.{something}. I'm not sure which is the one that applies to your setup, but it might be worthwhile to look at to see if there's any strange values given the error message you got.

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

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Re: Nothing displays correctly in Firefox (Solved)

As suggested above, kill firefox, go to the /home/username/.mozilla folder and rename it to something like .mozillaOLD, then restart Firefox and see if that helps.

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amunimanghi

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Registered: 2006-11-21

Posts: 78

Re: Nothing displays correctly in Firefox (Solved)

Ok, I found the solution. The day I installed Arch, I put this in my '.gtkrc.mine' file.

style "user-font" { font_name = "[font-name] [size]" } widget_class "*" style "user-font" gtk-font-name = "[font-name] [size]"

I just took that out and it resolved my problem. Thanks for your help.