On 06/30/2011 02:38 PM, ferna...@lozano.eti.br wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> Please someone help me find out how to solve this problem: for some 
> weeks I have been experiencing problems with fonts on Firefox and 
> Chrome when acessing two different webmail systems. At first I though 
> the problem was caused by remi RPMs I used to install Firefox 4 on 
> Fedora 14. I installed Fedora 15 and everything was fine for a while, 
> and then fonts became strange again. When firefox started having font 
> problems, Google Chrome started also.
>
> The problem was: Bold fonts and regular fonts look almost the same. 
> Bold fonts had a wider average character width, but were not thicker.
>
> So I got another computer, installed Fedora 15 from scratch, and 
> compared the results. Everything fine. Updated all packages, including 
> rpmfusion ones. Also fine.
>
> Then I noticed the new system was missing some packages I use, I guess 
> they come from rpmfusion: gnome-mplayer and wine. After installing 
> those, the font problem in Firefox and Chrome was back again.
>
> But this time I saved the output of rpm -qa at each step, then I 
> compared the latest working state with the one that wasn't. I noticed 
> there are a number of wine-*-fonts packages, and removed then (I also 
> had to remove wine itself). Problem solved!
>
> Can anyone explain why either wine itself (or wine fonts) interfere 
> with web browser page rendering?
>
> And how can I re-install wine without messing up with web page fonts?
>
>

Write the contents of this into ~/.fonts.conf and you won't need to 
remove wine :
http://pastebin.com/rxSjKaF6
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