mozilla 1.7b hosed fonts

[Net Llama!]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2004, Kurt Wall wrote:
> In a 1.1K blaze of typing glory, Net Llama! wrote:
> > Greetings,
> > I just upgraded to Mozilla-1.7b from 1.6.  Its noticably faster, however
> > all of my fonts are now hosed.  By hosed, I mean the size of them is
> > completed different than they used to be.  They're all much much smaller
> > for no apparent reason.  I've managed to get everything tweaked back to
> > the way it was except for the fonts in the mail/news client.
> >
> > In the mail/news client the fonts are still way the hell too small, and
> > they're all showing up in bold.  I don't mean the fonts of the messages,
> > but the fonts of everything else (message lists, etc).  Does anyone know
> > where this is controlled?  It doesn't look like I can tweak these fonts
> > from anywhere in the menu of preferences.
>
> about:config. If memory serves, the font settings you want are about
> halfway down the page.

nope, not there either.  I ended up having to tinker with userChrome.css.
I plan to write a SxS on this, cause its definitely a black art, and
utterly frightening how configurable it can be.

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