As the summary. mozilla-1.6-r1 is OK so I've moved back to that one. 1.7 works on my other box, with almost identical hardware and setup. I'll attach a screenshot. # emerge info Portage 2.0.50-r9 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.3.3, glibc-2.3.3.20040420-r0, 2.6.8-rc1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8-rc1 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 3200+ Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r3 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /sbin /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/bind /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -mmmx -m3dnow -msse -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache emergemail fixpackages nostrip notitles sandbox userpriv usersandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://www.mirror.ac.uk/sites/www.ibiblio.org/gentoo/ http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X aalib acpi apm arts artswrappersuid avi berkdb cdr crypt cups doc dvd dvdr dvdread encode esd exif faad fbcon foomaticdb ggi gif gimp gimpprint gphoto2 gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imagemagick imlib innodb iodbc java joystick jpeg kde libg++ libwww linguas_en_GB mad maildir mbox mikmod mmx mng motif mozilla moznoirc mozsvg mpeg mysql mysqli ncurses nls nocardbus odbc oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl oss pam pdflib perl png postgres ppds python qt quicktime readline samba scanner sdl slang spell sqlite sse ssl svg tcltk tcpd tetex tga theora tiff truetype unicode usb wmf x86 xml2 xmms xv xvid zlib"
Created attachment 36029 [details] snapshot of gecko window
This looks like a problem in your personal profile. Please try moving aside your ~/.mozilla directory and try running 1.7 again.
Correct. After removing ~/.mozilla everything's fine. Sorry for wasting your time.
I think you spent more time on it than I did. ;-)