On 12/30/2007 04:05 PM, Niels Walet wrote: > I seem to have some real problems with font display in the recent version > of > firefox on SL 4.5 (if I install firefox2 by hand, no such problems occur) > . I > tried both i386 and x86_64 versions, and the problem seems to be indentic > al, > see the attached screenshot of "about:plugins". If you highlite text (by > right clicking and dragging) the tex display changes as well, from very > compact to extremeley widely spaced, or vice-versa. Also the mouse cursor > > doesn't always appear at the insertion point. (Usually at the end of text > in > a text-box, even if the inesrtion point is in the middle). This seems to > occur on a few computers, but they all have similar installations. > I am really baffled! Anyone have a suggestion?
I've heard of similar things due to some "extensions" getting broken. As per the screenshot, you seem to have quite a few installed. I would suggest to first make sure they are all updated, then later selectively disable them and see whether this fixes the problem. As a first shot, you might want to compare the list of extensions between "working" and "nonworking" machines (unless you share your home directories/FF profiles between these machines, and run identical versions of FF..). Second guess: bad hinting in the font used for these lines?. You should be able to "view source" the relevant page, this should give a link to a CSS stylesheet (FF2: chrome://global/skin/plugins.css). Check which font would get used for "div#findmore" (in your example), check where it comes from, compare to "working" machine. Or as a first stab, play around with the settings in (Edit » Preferences » Content » Fonts & Colors » Advanced), pick some good-looking fonts. Hope this helps Jan
