barryrueger

Thanks Moshu. I swear, if the Open Source community could ever get that documentation thing down they could take over the world…

The best answers in the world are of no use of only five people know where they’re hidden.

For the record, I refuse to spend more than 30 minutes looking for the answer to any specific question.

That’s dandy, and I’ll track down those errors at some point, but I can’t see anything that would have created this glitch. If some kind soul can point me to the correct one of the 43 errors I’ll be happy to take it from there.

Sadly I do not live and breathe this stuff, and often need a pointer.

Thanks all.

Barry

Well, the solution above only worked until I restarted the Mac. There seemed to be no way to make it “stick”. I would disable ALL of the User fonts, and Firefox would work again, but after rebooting the problem came back.

I also tried deleting the font cache, as described here:
http://www.thexlab.com/faqs/undofontbook.html

1) Startup in Safe Mode.
2) Log in to your account. This will result in your current font cache being moved to the Trash. Only System fonts are available in Safe Mode.
3) Log out of your account.
4) Restart your Mac normally, i.e. do not restart in Safe Mode.
5) Log in to your account.
6) All previously-disabled fonts will be enabled and load. If you’ve installed hundreds or thousands of fonts, many of which had been disabled with Font Book, this could result in very slow performance of your Mac until all previously-disabled fonts are again disabled.
7) Empty the Trash.

Finally I opted for the brute force method and tracked down which of the three or four font directories held the user fonts:

Users/barryrueger/Library/Fonts

I then deleted ALL fonts from that directory and it seems that it fixed the problem.

My best guess is that some of the fonts from my old windows machine that were copied over/installed to the mac somehow didn’t work. I foolishly assumed that OS X would only let me install what worked, but I was wrong.

I just oposted this over at the Firefox site:

Very interesting this one and I’ve found nothing on it. I’ve also posted it to the WordPress site.

I am running a WordPress blog. threequirrels.com. It works dandy on Windows FF, Opera, and IE, and on Safari on the Mac, but not Firefox on the same Powerbook g4.

Symptoms (pix at http://www.community-media.com/wp_firefox.html)

1) The text displayed in Firefox on my new Powerbook is all messed up. Looks fine in Safari and of course in IE and FF on my PC.

In particular there seems to be a problem with the way that links are displayed. It looks as if the space before a linked word is deleted so that it backspaces up against the preceding text.

See picture one above.

2) Some text spills over to places where it shouldn’t be. See picture 2.

2) In Firefox on the Mac the text entry boxes in WordPress exhibit very, very strange behaviour, with characters overwriting each other, backspace not removing characters when deleted, and generally making it impossible to compose items.

See picture 3. This is the really, really strange one.

In fact, I find the same behavior with the text entry box here.

I’ve just moved to the Mac, and am still figuring out all sorts of transitional problems, so any help is appreciated.