Fonts in Firefox

[thehemi]

I'm using Firefox 1.5 under CentOS 5. The fonts are horrible.
I have a similar problem under OpenSUSE. What is the deal?
Is there some configuration options that I should change to get
it into a more friendly setup? It's almost like Firefox overrides
the websites defined fonts, so nothing looks as it should look.

[oz]

Play around with the fonts some in Edit / Preferences / Fonts & Colors.

You can set Firefox to always use the fonts you choose.

Make sure you have the fonts you want installed.

[devils casper]

It's almost like Firefox overrides the websites defined fonts, so nothing looks as it should look.

did you install TrueType Fonts? those are most commonly used fonts and if FireFox doesn't find fonts used by Websites in Font path, it uses default fonts only.

[thehemi]

You can set Firefox to always use the fonts you choose.

My Firefox is setup to "Allow pages to choose their own fonts..."
which is what I want, but the pages just look like trash. I guess it
must be lack of support for most of these fonts by my installation.

[thehemi]

did you install TrueType Fonts? those are most commonly used fonts and if FireFox doesn't find fonts used by Websites in Font path, it uses default fonts only.

# rpm -qa | grep true
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.1-2.1.el5

Are those what you're talking about? Or is there something else?

[oz]

I don't care for the MS Core Fonts, myself, but have had good very results with the bitstream fonts and with dejavu fonts. If you are using KDE there's an option for installing fonts in the control center. It's always worked perfectly for me.

[devils casper]

# rpm -qa | grep true
xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.1-2.1.el5

Are those what you're talking about? Or is there something else?

No. i am talking about MS TrueType fonts. it includes Arial, Times, Comic and other standard MS Fonts.
Google msttcorefonts.

[thehemi]

No. i am talking about MS TrueType fonts. it includes Arial, Times, Comic and other standard MS Fonts.
Google msttcorefonts.

I installed "Microsoft's TrueType core fonts" from this site:

Microsoft's TrueType core fonts on rpm based systems

$ xlsfonts | grep microsoft -c
48

Restarted the entire box, not just xfs, and my fonts haven't changed.
This sucks because everything else about my Linux desktop is okay,
only surfing via Firefox is messed up, and it's important these days!

[devils casper]

rename .mozilla folder and launch FireFox again.

mv ~/.mozilla ~/Mozilla

[thehemi]

rename .mozilla folder and launch FireFox again.

Good call. Firefox is not yet perfect, but it's much better!

Thanks for your help, folks.