Well, good news and bad news - the good news is that I've fixed this textual element invisibility problem that was rendering both Netscape 6 and recent Mozillas unusable unless you can remember what every button and menu originally said. The bad news is that I wasn't keeping track of how I did it, and so I don't actually have conclusive info on what it was that did it. The story is: I had Mozilla latest milestone, then the latest nightlies at the time. I also parallel installed Netscape 6 release when it was released. I then found that Netscape 6 had no mail/news label text on buttons, drop down menus, and various other items. I also noticed that Mozilla had a chunk of menus invisible in the middle - search, go, bookmarks were invisible, and the menu items inside were too, but the actual contents like the actual individual bookmarks etc were visible. I went through new nightlies usually around a Friday. I also noticed that I couldn't reply to mail, as the reply details and body were not appearing, and the body wasn't an active text field - I couldn't put a cursor in it and type anything. Bit of a drawback! Even on new mail. This week I disinstalled Netscape 6 and put in a fresh nightly from a couple of days ago - no change - still unable to generate email. I also switched off Adobe Type Manager (with all my Type 1 fonts installed). I thought as it was type related that this might have a bearing - it didn't - it's not related. This morning I took the latest (30/11/2000) nightly, and saved the application data/mozilla folder with all my mail and stuff in it, to another drive. The latest nightly also exhibited this behaviour, but when I generated a new profile, it didn't. However, all my mail was in the old one, which did. So, I deleted all the profile stuff except files I could see had my mail data in, then gradually put back old file after old file until I could see all my account data back in mail/news. So, I now have a Mozilla with all the menus, and all my mail data, and everything's okay. Unfortunately, I wasn't very methodical as usual, so I don't know which file was the culprit, but somewhere in the old application data/mozilla folder there's a file that's capable of making menus and buttons textual elements disappear. This really happened! Cheers. Ian Tindale
