i love firefox. recently i upgraded into what must be the windows-equivalent of dll-hell.

i run a debian testing/unstable system - i just can't stand not having _some_ idea of what's out there other than what the latest debian/stable stuff says is "good".

i like the fact that a debian/unstable system has got rid of the hotplug package altogether: udev now takes over its role, with a drastic increase in boot times.

i doubt whether depinit's boot-times will be beaten, though (about 5 seconds to a console login prompt).

but anyway - i digress.

i upgraded firefox, recently (couple months back). all fixed-width fonts went white-on-white.

"can you show me the source of the file so i can see more clearly what's causing the problem?"

"no, can't do that because view-source shows stuff white-on-white" :)

so i eventually decided today to try upgrading some of the dependencies. that did the trick.

by upgrading most of the x libraries to 6.9.0-dfsg.1_4 and also the xfs _and_ libfreetype, _eventually_ some voodoo combination of what i did made the problem take a hike.

interestingly, though, half-way through the upgrade process i decided to try firefox again: the fixed-width white-on-white boxes had been replaced with little black squares per character, which led me to believe that i was on the right tracks, and try to upgrade some of the dependencies-of-dependencies-of-firefox (focussing on those ones down the xlibs and fonts route)

voila, as if by magic...

mozilla-browser's habit of pulling me to the "new" tab when asking a link to be opened in a new tab was beginning to piss me off. _not_ to mention working with two-year-old bookmarks and cookies UGH :)