240890 - fonts appear in old english

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[carljordan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040417
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8a) Gecko/20040417

Text messages appear in an Old English font.  

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Installed Mozilla 1.6
2. Reinstalled current build
3. Checking and unchecking "allow documents to use other fonts" in preferences.
4. Eliminated the fantasy font line from the prefs.js file.

Actual Results:  
No change.

Expected Results:  
I would expect fonts to appear as selected in preferences.  This only happens in
text messages.  In fact, that is how they appear here as I am typing this bug.

It appears in web based email messages as well, except that links contained in a
messages appear normal.

You may view my appearance|font setup at
http://carljordan.com/bugzilla-font-prob.doc

Comment 1

[Jesiah S]

By default textareas use monospace not fantasy.  Does a new profile help?
When you update Mozilla you first have to uninstall the old version and then
install the new version.

Comment 2

[carljordan]

Thanks.  I created a new profile and it seems to be ok.

Comment 3

[Jason Bassford]

Nothing in Mozilla was broken or fixed.

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