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Old March 19th 12, 08:40 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?

Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download
additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically
download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to
need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages
anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four
times. It's annoying.

This is for K-Meleon browser.

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Old March 21st 12, 01:20 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?

In message , Bill in Co
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message ,
writes:
Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download
additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically
download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to
need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages
anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four
times. It's annoying.

This is for K-Meleon browser.

I don't know the answer, but thought I should tell you you are not alone
- I used to get that a lot too. Not sure why it stopped - possibly
different browser/machine; I haven't been to Wikipedia on my old '98 for
ages. (IIRR, Korean was a "popular" one.)


Possibly a K-Meleon issue? Or maybe his specific version of it? Wonder
if it happens to him with any other browser.


It happened to me and I have never used K-Meleon; it would have been
Netscape or Firefox for me.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Personally, I don't like the Senate idea, I don't like the idea of having to
elect another bunch of overpaid incompetents. I don't like the idea of having
wholesale appointments by the PM of the day for domination of the second
chamber. I like anachronism. I like the idea of a bunch of unelected congenital
idiots getting in the way of a bunch of conmen. - Charles F. Hankel, 1998-3-19.
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Old March 21st 12, 01:25 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message ,
writes:
Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download
additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically
download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to
need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages
anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four
times. It's annoying.

This is for K-Meleon browser.

I don't know the answer, but thought I should tell you you are not alone
- I used to get that a lot too. Not sure why it stopped - possibly
different browser/machine; I haven't been to Wikipedia on my old '98 for
ages. (IIRR, Korean was a "popular" one.)


Possibly a K-Meleon issue? Or maybe his specific version of it?
Wonder
if it happens to him with any other browser.


It happened to me and I have never used K-Meleon; it would have been
Netscape or Firefox for me.


It "happened" to you as in past tense? What did you do to fix it? Since
I'm primarily using IE8 I don't know. I only use Firefox, or more often,
Pale Moon, on special occasions, however.


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Old March 21st 12, 01:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?

In message , Bill in Co
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message ,
writes:
Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download
additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically
download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to
need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages
anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four
times. It's annoying.

This is for K-Meleon browser.

I don't know the answer, but thought I should tell you you are not alone
- I used to get that a lot too. Not sure why it stopped - possibly
different browser/machine; I haven't been to Wikipedia on my old '98 for
ages. (IIRR, Korean was a "popular" one.)

Possibly a K-Meleon issue? Or maybe his specific version of it?
Wonder
if it happens to him with any other browser.


It happened to me and I have never used K-Meleon; it would have been
Netscape or Firefox for me.


It "happened" to you as in past tense? What did you do to fix it? Since
I'm primarily using IE8 I don't know. I only use Firefox, or more often,
Pale Moon, on special occasions, however.


I'm not sure I ever fixed it: it's years since I saw it, but I'm now
using Firefox (now 11, though I think from 3.x on) on XP; when I
remember Wikipedia asking for extra fonts (actually IIRR it asked for a
"package" or something, which might not have been just fonts), I was
using a '98SElite machine, with the browsers shown (Netscape would have
been probably version 7 - probably 7.2 - and Firefox version 2.x [I
don't have Kernelex], though I don't think I had Firefox on it in the
days I used to get this problem).

IIRR I usually said no, and whatever Wiki page I was looking at still
came up fine; I might have said yes once or twice (what it wanted to
load was I think rather big for dialup use), and I _think_ it loaded OK
but didn't change anything (including the asking). But this last part is
very hazy memory.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Personally, I don't like the Senate idea, I don't like the idea of having to
elect another bunch of overpaid incompetents. I don't like the idea of having
wholesale appointments by the PM of the day for domination of the second
chamber. I like anachronism. I like the idea of a bunch of unelected congenital
idiots getting in the way of a bunch of conmen. - Charles F. Hankel, 1998-3-19.
  #7  
Old March 21st 12, 01:42 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Bill in Co
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Default Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co
writes:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message ,
writes:
Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download
additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not
automatically
download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason
to
need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages
anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to
four
times. It's annoying.

This is for K-Meleon browser.

I don't know the answer, but thought I should tell you you are not
alone
- I used to get that a lot too. Not sure why it stopped - possibly
different browser/machine; I haven't been to Wikipedia on my old '98
for
ages. (IIRR, Korean was a "popular" one.)

Possibly a K-Meleon issue? Or maybe his specific version of it?
Wonder
if it happens to him with any other browser.


It happened to me and I have never used K-Meleon; it would have been
Netscape or Firefox for me.


It "happened" to you as in past tense? What did you do to fix it?
Since
I'm primarily using IE8 I don't know. I only use Firefox, or more often,
Pale Moon, on special occasions, however.


I'm not sure I ever fixed it: it's years since I saw it, but I'm now
using Firefox (now 11, though I think from 3.x on) on XP; when I
remember Wikipedia asking for extra fonts (actually IIRR it asked for a
"package" or something, which might not have been just fonts), I was
using a '98SElite machine, with the browsers shown (Netscape would have
been probably version 7 - probably 7.2 - and Firefox version 2.x [I
don't have Kernelex], though I don't think I had Firefox on it in the
days I used to get this problem).

IIRR I usually said no, and whatever Wiki page I was looking at still
came up fine; I might have said yes once or twice (what it wanted to
load was I think rather big for dialup use), and I _think_ it loaded OK
but didn't change anything (including the asking). But this last part is
very hazy memory.


I thought you liked the older versions, like me? :-) FF11?? What are you
doing with FF11? I still have version 3.5 installed.

You also might consider Pale Moon, which I believe is more streamlined for
windows, and not a bunch of OS's. At any rate, Pale Moon seems quicker to
load for me (esp the first time).


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Old March 21st 12, 09:05 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Default Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?

wikipedia on some pages(even English pages) utilises foreign fonts to
display names in their origin language like greek, hebrew etc..this might
trigger a font download for the missing font.

it seems you've set not to download fonts in internet options, this is only
applicable for internet explorer and trident shells. k-meleon is a gecko
browser and isn't affected by IE internet options.

to disable font downloads in k-meleon:

1- in the urlbar type "about:config" without the quotes. alternatively you
can access advanced settings by clicking on edit menu, select and expand the
configuration submen and select 'browser configuration from there

2- in the advanced configuration window, search for this pref:
gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled

3- by default it's set to true to enable downloading missing fonts, double
click on it to set to false and disable missing fonts download. note: this
is a universal preferance and not per site, meaning it will not just affect
wikipedia but all websites.

you might need to restart k-meleon for changed to take effect, browse to a
wikipedia page for testing.

if you're using k-meleon 1.1.x or 1.5.x series,; you might want to upgrade
to the 1.6 beta release which is very stable, however it's NT based and
will not run on windows 98 without the kernelex unofficial update which is
available from this site:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/kernelex/


best of luck

K-Meleon forum:
http://kmeleon.sourceforge.net/forum/



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Everytime I connect to Wikipedia, it keep getting asked to download
additional (foreign) fonts. (My settings are to ASK, not automatically
download addons). I'm going to English sites, so there is no reason to
need the fonts. I never download them, I cant read foreign languages
anyhow. But everytime I go to wikipedia I got answer "NO" two to four
times. It's annoying.

This is for K-Meleon browser.



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Old April 10th 12, 08:08 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Bill in Co
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Default Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts?

Bill in Co wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:


I think I missed your response on this one, John:

snip
I just left this part in below for context

It "happened" to you as in past tense? What did you do to fix it?
Since I'm primarily using IE8 I don't know. I only use Firefox, more
often, Pale Moon, on special occasions, however.


I'm not sure I ever fixed it: it's years since I saw it, but I'm now
using Firefox (now 11, though I think from 3.x on) on XP; when I
remember Wikipedia asking for extra fonts (actually IIRR it asked for a
"package" or something, which might not have been just fonts), I was
using a '98SElite machine, with the browsers shown (Netscape would have
been probably version 7 - probably 7.2 - and Firefox version 2.x [I
don't have Kernelex], though I don't think I had Firefox on it in the
days I used to get this problem).

IIRR I usually said no, and whatever Wiki page I was looking at still
came up fine; I might have said yes once or twice (what it wanted to
load was I think rather big for dialup use), and I _think_ it loaded OK
but didn't change anything (including the asking). But this last part is
very hazy memory.


I thought you liked the older versions, like me? :-) FF11?? What's so
good
about the newer FF11? (I still have version FF ver 3.5 installed).

You also might consider Pale Moon, which was coded for Windows, and not a
bunch of OS's as is FF. At any rate, Pale Moon seems quicker to load for
me.


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Old April 10th 12, 10:37 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default Why does Wikipedia keep begging for foreign fonts? (Now browser thoughts.)

In message , Bill in Co
writes:
Bill in Co wrote:
J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:


I think I missed your response on this one, John:

[]
I thought you liked the older versions, like me? :-) FF11?? What's so
good
about the newer FF11? (I still have version FF ver 3.5 installed).


I too was (am) uneasy about Firefox's upgrade rate (though it seems to
have stopped for a moment - I just checked, and 11.0 is still up to
date; AFAICR, it's been 11 for some time). Trouble is, I could never see
an obvious point at which to stop it upgrading, and now am reluctant to
go back, lest something (and yes, I don't know what!) I've grown used to
working.

You also might consider Pale Moon, which was coded for Windows, and not a
bunch of OS's as is FF. At any rate, Pale Moon seems quicker to load for
me.


Yes, I keep hearing of it, mostly from people who're happy with it (or,
it might be that it's always the same person, possibly you!). It's just
lethargy on my part, and reluctance to learn (however small the
differences) yet another browser.
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/1985 MB++G.5AL-IS-P--Ch++(p)Ar@T0H+Sh0!:`)DNAf

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove
that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are
right. -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
 




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