Arthur S. Alexion on Sun, 9 Mar 2003 16:41:06 -0500


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Re: [PLUG] mozilla goes south, huge fonts in menu


Is it possible that the .mozilla user directory is generated by copying
a directory (or some files) from somewhere on the main /usr/mozilla
tree, and that you keep replicating the corrupted version of prefs.js?


On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 17:16, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> That would make sense, except that this happens even when I move
> ~/.mozilla out of the way. (Same thing happens on a different user, so
> it's not some other directory of mine being corrupt.)
> 
> The mystery persists...
> 
> -J
> 
> 
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 04:03:56PM -0500, LeRoy Cressy wrote:
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> > ~/.mozilla/.../.../prefs.js you are probably looking for something like:
> > 
> > user_pref("font.minimum-size.x-western", 14);
> > user_pref("font.name.cursive.x-western", "adobe-avant garde 
> > gothic-iso8859-1");
> > user_pref("font.name.fantasy.x-western", "adobe-avant garde 
> > gothic-iso8859-1");
> > user_pref("font.size.fixed.x-western", 20);
> > user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 24);
> > 
> > Now your fixed font might be messed up
> > 
> > Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > >After a power outage, I restart mozilla and the menu fonts are
> > >enormous, 100 point or more. The browser (html rendered stuff) comes
> > >up normal, but there's precious little of it for all the menus and
> > >control bars.
> > >
> > >I try mv'ing ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla_bak, and relaunching mozilla,
> > >but now I get what I imagine is the first-time launch configuration
> > >dialog. The fonts are so big that I can't do anything, not even answer
> > >the question, because I only see a few words on my 20" monitor the
> > >type is so big.
> > >
> > >OK, so it's not in ~/.mozilla, and I don't find anything suspicious in
> > >my environment that would ask for such a thing. Any ideas what might
> > >be happening or how to fix it?
> > >
> > 
> > 
> > - -- 
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