why do mozilla and foxfire fonts look different?

From: Anthropic Aorta (aa_at_example.com)
Date: 11/06/05

  • Next message: Terrance N. Phillip: "network a scanner" 
    Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 16:02:54 GMT

    I just tested this on a fresh installation of Mepis linux and both
    firefox and mozilla (full version) so it's not just my config.

    Visit the web site www.washingtonpost.com. Using firefox the font of
    the small text looks fine. Using mozilla full version it looks not so
    nice (actually looks pretty cr4ppy).

    Now I go to the font preferences. Under firefox the font choices are
    normal sounding names like "arial" "bookman" and "courier new." Under
    mozilla there is a huge selection of complicated names like
    "adobe-times-iso8859-1" "adobe-courier-iso8859-1" etc. If I look at
    mozilla font options under Windows the choices seem the same as firefox
    described above.

    What is happening with the default font choices for mozilla under linux?
      Should they not be the same as firefox under linux?

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