On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:23:54 -0400, "Doug Franklin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Brian Walters wrote: > > Hi all > > > > Anyone tried Firefox 3 with Linux yet? > > > > I just installed it - installs fine on Ubuntu 6.10 and works well but > > the font rendering seems to be back to the bad old days of Linux. In > > short - bloody awful! > > You might need to go into about:config and set or modify the > "layout.css.dpi" setting. I've needed to do that on every machine and > platform I've installed Firefox 3 on so far to get the fonts small > enough to actually see a page on the screen, instead of just a few words > from the page. Google searches will reveal a couple of other relatively > common hangups.
Thanks, Doug (and hi Bran!). Funny thing is when I opened Firefox 3 this morning, the fonts were OK. In fact they were much more finely defined than in Firefox 2 and other Linux applications. Maybe I just needed a re-boot to get the program to use the correct font engine. I checked"layout.css.dpi". Currently it's set to -1, which means (apparently) that Firefox uses "the host systems logical resolution or 96, whichever is greater" - whatever that means...... Anyway, at this stage I'll leave things alone and maybe play with the setting later. Thanks again Cheers Brian ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Brian Walters Western Sydney Australia http://members.westnet.com.au/brianwal/SL/ -- -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
