[Sheflug] disappearing text in firefox

[David Willington <david.willington [at] xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear All

No text appears in firefox on my machine running FC4. Everything was
fine until the computer stalled, possibly because of a cron job, and I
restarted it with the reset switch. It doesn't seem to have caused any
long term damage, except that no text appears in firefox, either in the
web pages or in the menus or in text boxes etc within pages. It gets
stuck trying to display the source code. There is text however in the
title bar, and as far as I can tell the browser works otherwise - pages
are rendered with images, typing a query into google and hitting return
takes me somewhere sensible etc. It hasn't affected any other browsers
so I'm not completely stuck, but I've had no luck looking for clues on
google. I've used yum to uninstall and reinstall firefox, but not luck
so far. The problem's the same for other users, including root. If
anyone can point me in the right direction I'd be grateful.

Thanks

David Willington

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