Re: Mozilla fonts
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 10:18, Keith Furman wrote:
> >Unfortunately, I have never seen that behavior on mozilla by switching
> >on the fonts in the file. I also copied over TT fonts from a windows
> >install and used a downloaded mozilla. I reread over a few of the
> >websites which include hacking mozilla files to get better font support
> >and I did not see any additional references to the problem. One other
> >thing you could do is find an XFT enabled mozilla package. As an
> >example, I recently found a Mozilla-Firebird XFT enabled tarball which I
> >downloaded. It was built on debian unstable so it works very well and
> >finds all the fonts correctly.
> >
> >Have you checked out Mozilla-Firebird? Its available as a debian
> >package as well.
>
> Yeah, i guess i'll have to go with Firebird for now [i had installed
> firebird from deb unstable too and the fonts work very well]. the thing i
> liked about Moz that it gave you more control on tabs (open last visited
> etc). Firebird doesn't have this feature. But i can live with that....
>
There are loads of extensions easily downloaded for Firebird (just go to
Tools/Options/Extensions). One is Tabbed Browser Extensions (TBE) which gives
you more tab features than you can ever eat (grouped tabs, drag and drop,
colouring, variable width, restore after crash ........)
Enjoy!
Peter
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