Mozilla 1.4 - No AA Font Goodness?

[Klaus-Peter Schrage]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>Quoth Kurt Wall:
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>>Yo, list,
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>>So, what is up with Mozilla 1.4's handling of AA fonts? I downloaded 
>>and installed it and it reverted to butt-ugly AA fonts. Worse still,
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>Erm, that is, "butt-ugly non-AA fonts"...
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Until moz 1.3.1, I had always installed Redhat RPMs, and recent builds 
were made with Xft support which means: nicely antilaliased fonts.
With 1.3.1, I wanted to try out a localized version supplied as a 
.tar.gz binary. But the price for my "deutsche Menu"s" seemed to be: 
ugly fonts, as the binary did to not support Xft font rendering. Don't 
know if there are any tarballs supporting Xft at all ... So with 1.4, I 
remorsefully recurred to RPMs and "English menus", and here we go again: 
beautiful fonts.
BTW, all my bookmarks and mail setting etc. (which I share with a moz 
install on a dually bootable Win XP) are in place ...
Klaus