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Re: Annoying Mozilla behavior



DvB muttered:
> 
> All of the above actually isn't always necessary. It's usually OK to
> just unpack the new build on top of the old one and it'll preserve the
> plugins/talkback/etc from the old build. However, sometimes I'll run
> into bugs which go away only after killing the old directory and
> unpacking again.
> 
Thanks, this will help. Note that the Mozilla installer, while fairly
cool, does nuke the entire /local/mozilla folder with no regard for
your plugins, so I take it that your technique requires downloading the 
tarball.

The following is off-topic for this thread, but I have no idea
if it's a debian, windowmaker, java, or mozilla issue; any comments
about the following 2 issues would be greatly appreciated. If this is
too off-topic for this list, please suggest a better one.

When I run a Java virtual machine (e.g., play chess on www.pogo.com,)
My fonts are messed up. Small fonts are widely spaced, the lineheight
is too tall for the chars. Large fonts have the same problem, and 
are also typically cut off so that the chars are pushed down in the 
field and only the top half is displayed. Fonts in regular browser 
windows work just fine. I'm running the latest java 1.4.0-beta, 
can't remember if I got it from Blackdown or Sun.

The other problem is with modal floating windows that appear on 
top of the main window. These open minimized with just a teeny 
little nub I can right click to get the attributes menu. The 
first time I maximize one of these it works properly, after that 
maximizing just moves the little nub to the top-left corner of the
screen, I have to relaunch Mozilla to make them work again.

TIA, Paul

-- 
Paul Mackinney
paul@mackinney.net



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