that's smells like an rpm specific problem.  i've been tracking
mozilla for its usable history and that's the first that i've
seen/heard of that.  but i don't use rpms.  the installer is actually
quite nice it lets you put things where you really want them and comes
with sane defaults. 

when last we saw our hero (Saturday, May 25, 2002), 
 Bob Tanner was madly tapping out:
> Quoting steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.org):
> > mozilla will automatically take advantage of tt fonts if the X
> > server makes them available.  you can check to make sure that the
> > fonts are accessible by selecting the new fonts within the
> > preferences panel.  
> > 
> > if you're looking for a particular site - you might try something
> > along the lines of msnbc.com where they typically will use the MS
> > fonts which are available w/i IE.
> 
> Actually, the official mozilla rpms and src.rpm have ttf turned OFF
> by default.
> 
> http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130493
> 
> Looking in the spec file, sure enough --disable-truetype, removed
> that, recompiled and I got ttf working great.

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