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> I upgraded Mozilla on RH9 to 1.5. - Simultaniously to that I got a hair
> up my butt trying to get some of the TTFonts to work under Linux. What I
> ended up with is a new version of the browser in which the default fonts
> all changed to Adobe and web pages looked awful.
>
> I reset the Edit>Preferences>Appearence>Fonts to other choices which
> brought back some semblence of order to my online experience however,
>
> Now if I encounter a page that uses Flash/Shockwave some of it works and
> some of it doesn't.
>
> When I hit this link:
> http://www.wired.com/animation/plugin.html
>
> It is a plug-in tester which takes you thru several animations that
> conclude if your browser is multi-media format compatible. The first one
> is for Flash and the animation starts, the noise it is supposed to loop
> starts but then my sound card stops and the system almost dies. I can
> get Gnome to open panels but if I start a terminal it won't open.
>
> I have to goto a shell on the b/w screens (Alt-Ctrl-F2) log-in and kill
> mozilla before things come back.
>
> The original Mozilla that came with RH9 is still on here too (I think).
> It was installed in /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1 while the new one went to
> /usr/local/mozilla
>
> What type of conflict am I having? The "default" profile seems to be the
> one that either Mozilla or netscape try to grab (located in my
> /home/username dir). Yeah, I installed netscape too trying to find out
> what the issue with the browser fonts might be.

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> On Sat, 08 Nov 2003 18:39:51 +0000, GregS typed:
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> How RPM or tar? The RPM's for Red Hat Linux 9 are here;
> http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla....s/1.5/redhat/9/
> Haven't tried them myself (compiled my own).

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> Figure out which mozilla-1.2.1 RPM's you have installed;
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> $ rpm -qa | grep mozilla
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> Download the 1.5 RPM's needed for the upgrade to a common location and
> install them at one time as root;
>
> $ rpm -Fvh mozilla*.rpm

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> Copy the plugins (except the libnullplugin) from
> /usr/lib/mozilla-1.2.1/plugins to /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins
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> The TTFonts should work however, if your looking for a set of msfont RPM's
> to make viewing web pages nicer try looking at; http://rpm.pbone.net/ for;
>
> msfonts-1.2.1-2tex.noarch.rpm and msfonts-style-1.2.1-2tex.noarch.rpm
>
> As far a test site for plugins this one's more complete;
>
> http://www.mozilla.org/quality/brow...tcases/plugins/
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> Lenard wrote:
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> I had only downloaded one RPM and it wasn't from this site. The file was
> called "mozilla-i686-pc-linux-gnu-1.5.sea.tar.gz" - When unpacked it
> seemed to install OK but as I followed your instructions below....
>
>
> This listed several distinct rpm's related to 1.2.1 (i.e. nss, nsspr, ....)
>
> Now it reads:
> mozilla-mail-1.5-1
> mozilla-nspr-1.5-1
> mozilla-nss-1.5-1
> mozilla-1.5-1
>
>
>
> Did this, although had to use the wild card instead of one at a time,
> because it seems that dependancies were not being picked up from my
> attempt as installing one rpm at a time.
>
>
>
> Did this, although under 1.2.1 there wasn't a "libnullplugin" . There
> was under 1.5-1
>
> The plugin test's still do not work for Shockwave. I'm led to the same
> site in which I've downloaded either the RPM or a tarball.
>
> When I try to install the rpm manually, it looks like this:
>
> rpm -Fvh flash-plugin-6.0.79-1.i386.rpm
> warning: flash-plugin-6.0.79-1.i386.rpm: V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID
> 8df56d05
>
> So it appears to not install.

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> When I unpack the tarball "install_flash_player_6_linux.tar.gz" and then
> run the installer from the directory that it creates, all seems to run
> OK. When I fire up a browser and go back to the link that I mention
> above to see if the flash stuff works, the animation works with sound
> through one loop then hangs the X session again.
>
> I can go back to a console (Ctrl-Alt-F2), login as root and kill mozilla
> and life is good again.
>
> The TTFonts that I've tried to use include the standard delivered
> windows font "Comic Sans", which does show up on the screen, it just has
> horrible kerning (i.e. space between letters) and the anti-aliasing
> either is nonexistent or the shape of the the basic letterforms are
> messed up.
>
> I've just got an auto-update on RH9 of Xfree with font stuff so I
> haven't tried anything yet to see if it's changed beyond last week.

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