Re: mozilla with xft + galeon?

[John McCutchan <ttb tentacle dhs org>]

On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 07:19:37PM +0100, Martijn Anthonissen wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 18:56, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > Yes. GARNOME includes all of the fontconfig/xft bits, Mozilla and the GTK+ 2
> > patches, and Galeon.
> > 
> > Makes for a pretty rough install, that Mozzy. ;-)
> 
> Maybe you ought to include a warning with the next GARNOME release that
> Galeon 1.3 uses the same directories and so on as Galeon 1.2.x, so
> people should back up their stuff just in case.
> 
> [Yes, I found out the hard way. I installed Mozilla & Galeon on top of
> GARNOME 0.18.3. Galeon 1.3 converted my bookmarks file and was quite
> usable. However after some time, it would only open zillions of tabs
> saying "about:blank" and no proper webpages anymore. Old Galeon wouldn't
> read the changed bookmarks file. Luckily I had a (slightly older) one at
> work.]

There is a fix for this:
Delete mozilla-1.2b/components/compreg.dat
Run Galeon
Make mozilla-1.2b unwritable.

http://www.sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=1202590&forum_id=6200

> 
> Martijn
> 
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