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Webpage does not render correctly in Konqueror.

I frequently use this interface for research purposes. Unfortunately, it does not render correctly on my version of Konqueror (3.5.2). When I attempt to zoom in, I get the following error message:

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Date: Sun May 14 19:10:35 EDT 2006

Because Mozilla-based browsers do not handle fonts very well on Linux, I am forced to use Windows to properly access the page. I first brought the matter to attention in this post. In the following post, user d00bid00b was able to successfully render the page (it should be noted that the user used a different version of Konqueror, 3.4.2, to test the interface). Thus, I request an answer to one of the following questions:

(1) How can I configure Konqueror to render the page correctly?

(2) How can I configure a Mozilla-based browser (preferably Firefox) to handle fonts correctly in KDE?

For the moment, the fonts in Mozilla-based browsers are much more difficult to read and look much less attractive in Firefox because they have a narrow, unevenly spaced appearance. In addition, the GTK+ rendering of Firefox in KDE 3.5.2 leaves much to be desired; when I hover over a checkbox, for instance, the checkmark previously present seems to disappear. I use the Clearlooks GTK2 theme.

No real answer here but it does work here with Konqueror 3.5.2. It must be a setting or something different with our distros one. I use Gentoo for mine.

One thing I did notice, it asks if it is OK to open a popup several times. Does yours do that too? I click allow and then it works fine, it is a bit slow though.

:D :D :D :D

I am using Debian Etch, so it may simply be a bug then. There is popup to indicate that it is getting data from the server.

I get that to. It is slow to respond when that pops up though. It's like the server is busy or something. Works good in Mozilla though.

:D :D :D :D

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Originally Posted by dalek

I get that to. It is slow to respond when that pops up though. It's like the server is busy or something. Works good in Mozilla though.

:D :D :D :D

How do the fonts look? Are there any differences between Mozilla and Konqueror? I assumed that there wouldn't be any differences in the way Mozilla renders the webpage from Firefox, but I may be wrong.

never had any problems with fonts in Mozilla/Firefox in KDE in Debian unstable. (Both use the same rendering engine [Gecko] so that there should be no palpable difference besides interface) Konqueror works fine for me too, at least font-wise. Can't check that particular webpage tho, as my current toy PC is Gnome only... don't have Konqueror installed.

I finally solved the font problem. Apparently, Firefox was using a hideous font to display that page. Until now, I was reluctant to force Firefox to use just one font for all proportional fonts on webpages, but it seems that that's all Konqueror does. Forcing Firefox to use the Sans-Serif font exclusively for proportional fonts made everything look much, much better. It's strange that Konqueror refuses to zoom in on that page though.