4528 - running viewer messes up fonts on system and makes unstable

Status: VERIFIED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Layout, defect, P1)

Description

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

This is a very system-dependent bug.  This happened on my father's computer
when I went home for spring break (using 2 or 3 builds), and I tried the
same build (I think) on my computer at school, and it didn't happen.

The problem is as follows.  After I start viewer (and the "Registering the
new and improved MIME..." message takes forever on his system), pages load
with strange fonts, usually the whole page appears in a "Courier New"-like
font.  Select boxes appear with the number "6" instead of a "v" arrow.  Then
when I exit viewer (or before), the fonts in other programs are messed up
too, and the system just tends to spiral down into a crash (slowly, though,
I think I managed a proper reboot all the times this happened).

The computer where the bug occurred is the following:

Gateway P5-100, 96MB RAM
Windows 95 with service pack 1 (not OSR2) plus a bunch of other MS system
updates (new dial-up networking, etc.), and Internet explorer 4.0 (not 4.01!)
Access to web via dialup.

The computer where I don't have problems has OSR2 and MSIE5, and an ethernet
connection.

Feel free to ask for more if this info isn't enough.

Comment 1

[rickg]

Kevin -- Keep an eye on this. Hard to tell what the real problem is.

Comment 2

[leger]

petersen, can you check this out with latest Apprunner? thanks!

Comment 3

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

I tried the 1999-08-16-09-M9 build on the same computer (only change to the
machine is a bigger hard disk), and things work quite well now.  It's a little
slower loading than other computers, but about as much slower as I would
expect.  No font trouble anymore.

Resolving WORKSFORME.

Comment 4

[Chris Petersen]

Based on the reporter's comments, marking as verified fixed.