Description of problem: RHEL 5 Beta 2 xorg-x11-fonts-Type1-7.1-2.1.el5 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5 xorg-x11-fonts-ISO8859-1-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5 xorg-x11-fonts-100dpi-7.1-2.1.el5 xorg-x11-fonts-truetype-7.1-2.1.el5 xorg-x11-fonts-75dpi-7.1-2.1.el5 xorg-x11-fonts-base-7.1-2.1.el5 xorg-x11-fonts-misc-7.1-2.1.el5 How reproducible: Everytime. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Launch firefox. 2. Navigate to e.g. http://www.heise.de/newsticker 3. Take a look at the page being rendered. Actual results: Page is hard to read. Charactersequences like e.g. al are glued together. Expected results: Page is easy to read as it used to be with RHEL 4.
Created attachment 141578 [details] Part of a screen shot illustrating the problem
core X fonts are pretty irrelevant here, since firefox uses pango for rendering. Reassigning to freetype.
-- uses pango.. reassigning to freetype... -- huh? why not pango?
This bug should be closed by now. firefox/pango updates had fixed it like more than a month ago
Reporter, could you please confirm comment 4?
Yes, this seems to be fixed in RHEL 5 final.