Crummy Fonts in Moz 1.7.2

[Olwe Melwasul]

I went to the Mozilla site and got the one for Linux, right? Actually, 
up2date has never worked, it always locks up at the "rmp 
interdependencies..." check dialog box. Freezes every time!

Olwe

David L Norris wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 23:35 -0500, Olwe Melwasul wrote:
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>>I recently got the latest Mozilla 1.7.2 and set it up independent of 
>>Fedora 2 (because I didn't know how to "integrate it" with/supersede the 
>>original 1.6 that came with it). I then began to notice how unaliased 
>>and crummy the fonts looked. Then on a hunch I opened the F2 version 
>>(1.6) and the fonts look fine! What gives?
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>Well, without knowing which Mozilla package you installed I'd guess you
>installed a version with "crummy font support."  You need to install a
>GTK+XFT build of mozilla to get pretty antialiased fonts.  And it
>doesn't look like mozilla.org provides those any more.  Firefox does
>provide them.
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>Now, the question is why you're trying to install Mozilla 1.7.2
>"independent of Fedora 2."  You really should be using up2date or yum to
>keep your system current.  The current Mozilla package, from Red Hat,
>for FC2 is 1.7.2.
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>Run (daily or weekly):
>  up2date
>Or:
>  yum update
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