Hi Mike,

Thank you for your help.  I fogot the fact that pango is enabled in
debian firefox.

I'm really sorry for my fake bug report.

On 5/23/06, Mike Hommey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:11:09PM +0800, Hongzheng Wang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Subject: firefox: Bold cjk bitmap fonts usually flicker
> Package: firefox
> Version: 1.5.dfsg+1.5.0.3-2
> Severity: normal
>
> Hi,
>
> Due to the current limitations of fontconfig system in Debian, the
> users with CJK locales cannot get bold fonts directly from TTF fonts.
> Therefore, bitmap fonts are still not a bad choice.  For example,
> WenQuanYi bitmap song font (xfonts-wqy) is such a bitmap font.
>
> Unfortunately, I found the firefox built by Debian sid cannot work
> well with bitmap fonts.  When the fonts are set to bitmap font, such
> as WenQuanYi, the hyperlink texts with bold face usually flicker as
> mouse pass through them.  It is the case even for pure English
> hyperlinks, say, the bug reports page of Debian if the fonts of
> western are set to Bitmap fonts.
>
> In order to confirm it is Debian related problem, I also tested the
> official firefox 1.5 and alpha 2.0 from Mozilla.  Both of them works
> well without this problem.

Try running your debian firefox with MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1.

Mike



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Hongzheng Wang

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