None of us where happy with that font download dialog which gets triggered when layout renders a message with a charset you don't have the ability to render.
If you download a more recent build you shouldn't be seeing this dialog anymore. It was turned off for mail and just comes up inside the browser now. -Scott Dave Roberts wrote: > I was reading through this group when I read one of the messages from > toylet. His charset is set to "Big5-HKSCS". As I opened the message, > Moz prompted me for my proxy name and password. > > [ As an aside, this is strange as I've read many posts by toylet before, > and not seen this. ] > > Having entered this, I got a tiny dialog box that then resized and said > something about the charset not being installed on my system, and that I > could correct this by going somewhere. Before I got a chance to make a > note of this, the dialog disappeared. > > I managed to reproduce the dialog box by marking the message as unread, > exiting mozilla, and coming back to the group to reread. The text is: > > " > To display language characters correctly, > you need to install the following components. > > Traditional Chinese Text Display > > You can install it through 'Control Panel:Regional Setting:Language' > " > > Looking at the trace I ran, Mozilla grabbed the following URL's:- > > Host: www.mozilla.org:80 > Path: /projects/intl/fonts/win/en/package_zh-TW.html > Host: www.mozilla.org:80 > Path: /projects/intl/fonts/win/en/package_zh-TW.xul > > If I put the HTML URL into a new browser window, I get a similar message > to what I'd already seen, but now it says that the download size is X > amount, and I have 2 buttons, one to download, the other to cancel. > Again the window disappears after a short period. > > Firstly, I don't understand why the initial dialog boxes didn't offer me > a dowmload option, yet if I put the URL in manually it does. > > Second, why does the window disappear after a short period with no user > interaction? > > And finally, should Mozilla not ask me before going off and doing that? > I am after all simply reading news - I don't expect to be making any > HTTP connections. > > - Dave. >
