I just updated to mozilla-firefox 1.5.0.4 this morning and I found this nasty problem when looking at the preferences dialog. First is rather oversized, and when loading the advanced dialog for fonts I doesn't render it very well. The only things that I've changed from compilation of 1.0.x and this is LINGUAS. Here is emerge --info Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.0, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0-r1 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.4.3-r4, 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe -mfpmath=sse -m3dnow" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -fomit-frame-pointer -ffast-math -pipe -mfpmath=sse -m3dnow" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="es" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 3dnow X alsa apache2 apm audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli crypt curl doc dri emacs emboss encode exif expat fam flac foomaticdb fortran gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnutls gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib isdnlog jpeg lcms libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mmx mng motif mp3 mpeg mule mysql ncurses nls nptl ogg openal opengl pam pcre pdflib perl php png ppds pppd python quicktime readline reflection sdl session spell spl sse ssl svg svga tcpd tetex truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xorg xv zlib linguas_es userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
Created attachment 88365 [details] Oversized preference's dialog As you can see, the dialog is as big as the main window.
Created attachment 88366 [details] advanced font dialog messed In the screenshot you can see that the advanced dialog isn't render properly. Looks like the window holding the widgets isn't visible. It took me some time to find where was the Ok and Cancel Buttons.
well first thing first, did you mv ~/.mozilla/firefox out of the way and test with a clean profile as ebuild instructs? If not please test there are known issues when moving from 1.0.x to 1.5.x. As for me I am unable to replicate the problem your showing.
I tried with a brand new .mozilla/firefox dir and new profile and it was fixed with the default theme. Then I installed again the other theme (Orbit 3+1) and the problem returns. Is a theme bug.