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deft

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Registered: 2005-03-14

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Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Anyone else noticed with today's Firefox update (1.5.0.1-2 -> 1.5.0.1-3) that the fonts have gone tiny within Firefox ??

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

Posts: 4,863

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Reenabling Pango could have something to do with it. :?

(Why was Pango enabled again? I thought XFT was an order magnitude faster...)

patroclo7

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From: Bassano del Grappa, ITALY

Registered: 2006-01-11

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

VERY tiny!!! and much slower... In CVS it seems that they went back to pango due to some unicode compatibility stuff

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Mr Green

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From: U.K.

Registered: 2003-12-21

Posts: 5,914

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

In prefs I changed fonts setting to system & they seem better now

HTH

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deft

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Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 79

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Thanks guys, I'll wait for an update on this

arooaroo

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2005-01-13

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

It's been ok for me. Strange.

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Mr Green

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

It's been ok for me. Strange.

its happened every time I have updated, a fonts things I guess maybe updating to xorg8 will help lol

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danns

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Registered: 2006-02-12

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

In prefs I changed fonts setting to system & they seem better now

HTH

Where is this "system" setting?  I don't see that, in the Firefox preferences.

sputnik

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-06-24

Posts: 98

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

In prefs I changed fonts setting to system & they seem better now

HTH

Where is this "system" setting?  I don't see that, in the Firefox preferences.

Edit > prefrences > content > fonts & colours > advanced > display resoulution > system setting

MAC!EK

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Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 267

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

didn't work for me... still very small fonts
for example http://hacking.pl/

And it seems that firefox works now slower.

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

I was about to say "Yeah, fine for me too, arooaroo", but I just checked hacking.pl, and it is tiny alright. No other site that I've been to since upgrading has been affected, though.

So I'm now saying "Yeah, strange, arooaroo". :?

ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

didn't work for me... still very small fonts
for example http://hacking.pl/

And it seems that firefox works now slower.

I've not noticed small fonts with latest firefox on any site at all, except for when I click on that link.

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phrakture

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From: behind you

Registered: 2003-10-29

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

That site looks fine to me - except I think my firefox is cconfizzling the english text - I can't read it! 8)

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RaLX

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Registered: 2005-10-17

Posts: 54

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Wow, that is the worst seeing site here, looks small, blurry and unreadeable at all  :shock:

thomas23

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From: Canada, Montreal

Registered: 2005-06-11

Posts: 40

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

got that on www.mozilla.org to make fonts more readable on Linux

http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#fonts

might help ! 

NecroRomancist

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Registered: 2005-01-02

Posts: 53

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

In prefs I changed fonts setting to system & they seem better now

Thanks that worked for me

codemac

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Registered: 2005-05-13

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Yea, that's pretty freaking tiny.

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MAC!EK

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Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 267

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

but when i used 1.5.0.1-2 the fonts on hacking.pl were OK

danns

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Registered: 2006-02-12

Posts: 13

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Edit > prefrences > content > fonts & colours > advanced > display resoulution > system setting

Well I feel like a complete moron there.  Anyway, that seemed to do the trick, except for the hacking.pl site.  But all others are looking good.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Yargh... Fonts look fine for me in Epiphany, but performance is bloody terrible! :evil:

Edit: Jesus, fonts on Wikipedia look positively eldritch. Forget this shit, I'm going back to KDE. :shock:

MAC!EK

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Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 267

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Yargh... Fonts look fine for me in Epiphany, but performance is bloody terrible! :evil:

it's really slow....

JGC

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Registered: 2003-12-03

Posts: 1,664

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

put this in your profile or bashrc:
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
export MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=0

this should disable pango and fallback to Xft for rendering.
For the tiny fonts: make sure your xorg dpi settings are correct. Most ati and nvidia users suffer from this problem.

When disabling pango, there's no way to get it back. When enabling it, you can at least disable it if you want to.

Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Thanks!

Now to wait for Metacity to become usable...

MAC!EK

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Registered: 2005-09-27

Posts: 267

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Disabling pango helped, better performance again.

deft

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Registered: 2005-03-14

Posts: 79

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.1-3 fonts issue

Thanks JGC/guys - sorted better now