Mozilla with Xft support ------------------------ This is the first release of Mozilla that contains support for Xft. As such, it has bugs and doesn't contain several pieces of functionality that are available in the standard X11 core fonts build. Before you download this build you should be aware of what those problems are. They include, but are not limited to: o MathML support o Support for Symbol fonts o Support for non-iso10646 .pcf fonts o Support for font-hacks used for pre-1933 orthography Korean text If you want to use the old X11 core font rendering it's still included in these builds, but you have to set an environmental variable. You can just start up Mozilla like this: bash$ GDK_USE_XFT=0 /usr/bin/mozilla You can also set a pref manually to disable Xft in your prefs.js, assuming you know how to do that: user_pref("fonts.xft.enabled", false); Last but not least, if you want to report a bug please take note of the tracking bug that we're using to track our Xft-related bugs. This bug also contains links to fixed bugs that may have been fixed in Mozilla's trunk but were not included with 1.2, so be warned! In any case, if you find problems with Xft rendering or fonts or crashes it's a good idea to have a look at the tracking bug before reporting it since someone else might have already reported it. Also, making sure that a problem does not occur with core fonts using the methods described above can go a long way to determining if a problem is Xft-related or not. Tracking bug: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=172768 This build is against gtk 1.2. The default font in gtk 1.2 (helvetica) looks pretty strange in the UI. There isn't an easy way to fix that at this time. If you want gtk2 integration you're going to have to wait until gtk2 builds are available in the Mozilla 1.3a timeframe. Thanks! Christopher Blizzard