Firefox is burning my fonts

[Skunkboy]

Alright, question and hopefully someone will have the answer. I've seen "some" properties for fonts in firefox but the install of it on my new system is controlling fonts to display completely wacky from what I would prefer. Even right now, as I type this, it's showing a huge font compared to what it would usually display as.

Firefox is even overriding my website which is what really is bugging me. http://skunkboy.net/screencap.jpg shows what I'm seeing.

A fix?

It's not View | Text Size | Normal (ctrl+0)
It's not View | Text Size | Decrease (ctrl+-)
It's not Tools | Options | General | Fonts & colors
I've tried all of those and nothing happens. I really don't want to go back to IE but I'll do it just to get a normal looking screen again.

Any ideas?

[The Linguist]

Is the problem only in firefox? I've heard that if you have too many fonts installed on yoru system some things can become corrupt. What I heard is that if that happens it's time for a computer re-install. This is all hearsay of course, so you may want to wait for a better answer.

[Autoload]

From the Firfox "Help" Menu.... by the way, your sitle looks fine in my Firefox browser window. :) I know you said 'it's not this', but I pumped those numbers up and got my browser to look like your screen shot.

Fonts & Colors

Fonts and Colors Dialog

Click the Fonts & Colors... button to change the default fonts and colors used by Firefox.

Fonts for:
Normally, web pages are displayed in the default font set by your browser or in a font chosen by the web pages' authors.

To change the default fonts:

1. From the Fonts for drop-down list, choose a character set. For instance, to set default fonts for the Western (Roman) character set, choose Western.
2. Select whether proportional text should be serif (like "Times New Roman") or sans-serif (like "Arial"). Then specify the font size you want for proportional text.
3. Specify the font to use for Serif, Sans-serif and Monospace fonts. You can also change the size for Monospace fonts.

You can also specify the display resolution, which is normally 96 dpi.

Finally, you can set the minimum font size to be used on screen. This can be useful on some sites that use very small fonts that are barely readable.

Text and Background
Here you can change the default text and background color to be used on web pages that haven't specified that information. Click on the color samples to select colors.

Use system colors
Check this optionpreference to use the colors defined in your OS settings instead of the colors specified above.

Link Colors
Here you can change the default colors for Web links. Click on the color samples to select colors.

Underline links
By default, links are underlined on web pages. Uncheck this optionpreference to disable this. Note that many sites specify their own styling rules and this optionpreference has no effect on those sites.

Always use my:
Fonts
By default Firefox uses the fonts specified by the web page author. Enabling this optionpreference will force all sites to use your default fonts instead.

Colors
By default, Firefox uses the colors specified by the web page author. Enabling this optionpreference will force all sites to use your default colors instead.

[Skunkboy]

Is the problem only in firefox?
Yes
I've heard that if you have too many fonts installed on yoru system some things can become corrupt. What I heard is that if that happens it's time for a computer re-install. This is all hearsay of course, so you may want to wait for a better answer.
LOL yeah, I know too many can be an issue but when FireFox is the only thing on here - it's a brand new computer and I trashed the XP home that it came with to put XP Pro on it... I don't think it's overloaded. Brand new Inspiron 9300 laptop. Everything looks fine with my site on my Inspiron 1100, on my Slackware 10.1 box, on my Feather box, and even on a 640x480 monitor hooked up to some 233's with XP Pro SP2 on 'em - yes, it's true, it WILL run on 233mhz w/64mb ram... I've done it and there's other PW people who have seen it physically to vouch for me :cool:

[Skunkboy]

I've not gone through everything you listed just yet but when I came back and started scrolling up from having replied to the post just before yours, I noted:

You can also specify the display resolution, which is normally 96 dpi.


That reminded me that if I wasn't mistaken, this thing sets itself to 120dpi (it's a 1440x900 widescreen). I checked and sure enough it's at 120dpi.

Now I'm just waitin' for it to reboot... we'll see.

**edit**
YAY! It was the DPI that was screwin' me up - now even replyin' here looks right :cool: Thank you

[esc]

never mind... :rolleyes:

[YvetteKuhns]

I've heard that if you have too many fonts installed on yoru system some things can become corrupt.

I had over 700 fonts on my old hard drive and had NO problems with Mozilla Firebird. I just installed Firefox on my new hard drive and hadn't even installed my other fonts and Firefox is crashing. That never happened before. I may have to reinstall it. Go figure. :rolleyes:

[David Byrnes]

A couple years ago, when I was doing a lot of DTP work, I had over 1000 different fonts installed, and never had a problem with any kind of file corruption. Occasionally, the fonts wouldn't display correctly, and I simply had to re-register the fonts, which in all version of windows from win98 & up is done by going to My Computer > Windows and opening the FONTS directory. This re-registers the fonts within Windows, and will clear up most font display issues.