[PLUG] Strange Mozilla Font Behaviour

[McLinux <mclinux@myrealbox.com>]

Hi List,

Recently I experimented with the way mozilla uses font, antialiasing and 
so on. However I have stumbled upon some unexpected response. I will 
describe step by step of what I have done:

o The version of Mozilla is 1.5

o I modified <path to mozilla installation>/defaults/pref/unix.js

o I changed the following :
pref("font.FreeType2.enable", true);
pref("font.freetype2.shared-library", "libfreetype.so.6");
pref("font.FreeType2.autohinted", false);
pref("font.FreeType2.unhinted", false);
pref("font.antialias.min",        10);
pref("font.embedded_bitmaps.max", 1000000);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.min", 64);
pref("font.scale.tt_bitmap.dark_text.gain", "0.2");
pref("font.directory.truetype.1", "/usr/share/fonts/ttf");
pref("font.directory.truetype.2", "/usr/share/fonts");
pref("font.directory.truetype.3", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1");
pref("font.directory.truetype.4", "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/OTF");

FYI: /usr/share/fonts/ttf contains Win2K fonts.

o Closed the Mozilla session and restarted it.


The problem begins here, after some operations and some kind of timeout, 
Mozilla Mail becomes inoperable. The whole thing becomes inresponcive. 
Upon execution of ps -ef. I find mozilla-bin becoming defunct and hence 
left with no choice, I have to kill it. So, the bottom line, I am not 
sure if its the window fonts are the culprit, or some bug with mozilla. 
The true type support have been incorporated within Mozilla after ver 0.9.6.

Right now I am using Mozilla 1.4 and have not found any such behavior 
yet. Any clue?

TIA.

Regards,
McLinux


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