[wplug] Mozilla Firebird

[Mike Procario]

I had some trouble downloading that one but I got a nightly build

MozillaFirebird-i686-linux-gtk2+xft.tar.gz

it clearly has better fonts. 

On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 07:19:09PM -0400, Mike Procario wrote:
> I am running RedHat 9.0 and on of the things that impressed me so
> much was the quality of the fonts. I mostly use galeon and
> sometimes mozilla. 
> 
> At work I have Firebird running on Windows 2000 and it is my
> primary browser.  I downloaded Firebird 0.6 for my Linux box, and
> I had the same experience as you. 
> 
> I poked around and I found on the ftp server. 
> 
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firebird/releases/0.6.1/contrib/
> 
> that there was a version compiled with Xft support. 
> 
> MozillaFirebird-0.6.1-i686-pc-linux-gnu-ctl-svg-xft.tar.gz. 
> 
> I am wondering if that is the problem. I am going to download this
> one and try it. I do like Firebird and it would be nice to use it
> at home. 
> 
> Mike
> 
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 01:36:30PM -0400, Ryan W. Frenz wrote:
> > I started using Mozilla Firebird on my XP box about 3 months ago, and I 
> > absolutely loved it.  So I decided to install it on my Mandrake 9.1 
> > system, on which I used to use Galeon for browsing.  The only problem 
> > is, it looks like hell.  Fonts are grainy and hard to read, links are 
> > not underlined (even though the option is set), etc.  Has anyone else 
> > seen anything like this with Firebird?  Is there some system setting I 
> > may have messed up?  It seems strange to me that it would look different 
> > from Galeon (which I thought was just Mozilla).  Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Ryan