Seems that mozilla.org have a magic fairy living at the bottom of the garden; one that sneaks into the CVS Repository in the dead of night and spirits away bugs!
No, I'm not dabbling with dangerous substances, it appears that http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88367 has been fixed, despite still being marked NEW and no patches posted. This is the bug report about the Fixed/Variable font radio buttons in Preferences->Mail & Newsgroups->Message Display being ignored and the only way to get plain text messages to display in fixed pitch font is to check "Allow documents to use other fonts" in Preferences->Appearance->Fonts. I can confirm that in Build ID 2002-02-25-03 on W2K and in a CVS build (also W2K) from 2002-02-27 that this bug has disappeared and these features work correctly. Someone else has confirmed that this is also the case in Build 2002021722 on Solaris/SPARC. Plain text messages (mail and news) are displayed according to the Fixed/Variable radio button selected and are unaffected by the "Allow documents to use other fonts" checkbox. HTML posts honour the state of the "Allow documents...." checkbox (assuming that the message specifies a different font to your default) and are unaffected by the Fixed /Variable radio buttons. Can people confirm (or deny) this on other builds/platforms and post a comment to the bug? Note, changing the settings does not cause the currently displayed message to be redrawn when dismissing the Preferences dialogue, you have to select another message first. Regards, Parish -- Software is like sex, it's better when it's free - Linus Torvalds Anti-spam e-mail address, change _AT_, sorry for the inconvenience
