[xorg-bugzilla-noise] [Bug 659] non-XFT builds of Mozilla crash X server when viewing pages with unrecognized unicode characters

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------- Additional Comments From htl10 at users.sourceforge.net  2004-09-06 06:26 -------
I did some digging and I think it is a 
'non-xft build mozilla'<->X-server<->font-server interaction issue.

Ever since I upgraded my office box to fedora2 (from redhat 9) I 
have been biten by mozilla bring down the X server during a 
google search or when displaying pages with strange characters. 
Yesterday I remember I never had a crash with my home box - 
which runs slackware 10; and of course I view pages or do google
search on either in a similar way. And since upgraded to
fedora 2, both are running Xorg 6.7.0, with the official 
mozilla 1.7.2 build, so the two boxes are version-wise similar -
with one difference - my home box doesn't use font server
but have static font paths. 

So I did a bit of playing around on my office fedora 2 box.
Installed both the fedora 2 xft-enabled mozilla and the official
non-xft build. And yes, I can reproduce the X-server crash with
the non-xft reliably, while the xft-enabled build survives.

Then I modified /etc/X11/xorg.conf to use static font paths instead
of the font server, and the non-xft build doesn't crash the 
x-server anymore. I put the font server fontpath entry back *after*
the static font paths (i.e. static font path + font server),
and the non-xfs build doesn't crash the X-server either.
So I think I am inclined to leave the config like that -
static font paths + font server. This way everything
should just work fine.

Can somebody please remind me, what's the benefit of 
using a font server versus static font paths again? 
(besides having crashes like this, that is :-).        
   
   
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