Niall O Broin wrote:
> I realise that this is probably a FAQ but I have read various documents down
> the years about font de-uglification, and I do have xfstt running on my box.
> www.scan.co.uk is quite readable on Netscape (try it without xfstt) but my
> latest bugbear is www.byte.com. The sidebar categories down the LHS are
> barely readable. These are perfectly visible under IE or Navigator on
> VMware/'doze on the same box.
>> It's not an intrinsic browser thing, because it's OK under Navigator on
> 'doze. It's not X/Linux because I have xfstt running and the offending items
> look fine under kfm, though that has other issues (which I imagine are fixed
> with konqueror) and it looks OK under Mozilla (postM16 - build 2000061408 -
> as delivered with SuSE 7.0 - first time I've run it, and it will only run as
> root).
>> So the burning question is - is it possible to bludgeon Netscape 4.76 into
> displaying those items legibly ?
>>>> Niall
>>>It would appear that Mozilla wants to be run for the first time as root,
as well as all updates, plugins etc...
Don't try getting Flash5 as an ordinary user, Chromes seem OK though.
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