How to display Malayalam properly in Firefox

In the "raw" setting of Firefox, it is sometimes difficult to read Malayalam properly. The difficulties faced are:
1. Improper representation of characters, ie characters are not joined, the dotted circle is displayed etc etc
2. Cils are not displayed.
This problem can be solved by Publishers by taking the following into consideration:
1. Avoiding justify:center
2. Avoiding line-spacing
3. Hard coding font name to a Malayalam unicode font.

As we cannot expect all the publishers to follow these, the users have the following options:
1. Use the stylish extension
2. Override the style of the publisher
An example to override the style ( MSN India Malayalam )
Use stylish and Write Style for msn.co.in..
Just fill the following in the bold inside the curly brackets:
@-moz-document domain("msn.co.in") {
p, a, ul, .showit,.centerinnercontenta, .fontash { font-family:Rachana_w01 ! important ;}
}
You can enable n disable the override using the extension.

Majority of the problems will be solved by this method. Some remaining problems can be solved only by userscripts, and greasemonkey extension can be helpful at this stage.

Tags: stylish, firefox, css, malayalam

Firefox !!! WHY

I thought it's my duty to present my view regarding Firefox, rather why I used Firefox for more than 2 years now..
I was not a fan of netscape navigator ever, Internet Explorer was my favorite.. Still I dont hate IE, use it for some of my banking sites, actually.
I have tested Opera earlier and found tabbed browsing was really good.. But Opera was not a free browser.. I hated seeing Ads on my browser.. So Opera was used very little.
Then came Firefox, and I found no reason not to switch to FF...
1.It blocked the popups for me.
2.It came with a built-in search for Google, no need for another toolbar
3.It can be extended using extensions, now called add-ons in FF2.
4.Now I can decide what to see and how to see the web, rather than the content provider dictates. This is not a privilege even available with newspapers, magazines, television etc(we have no way to block their annoying ads !!!)
5.Excellent Unicode support with perfect Malayalam support.. I can read any Malayalam page with any font I prefer perfectly by using UserContent.css
6.Padma eliminates the need for any malayalam ascii font to be installed in our system.Almost all the ascii malayalam fonts are / can be converted to Unicode.
7.Last but not the least, its Opensource !!! I can contribute to the community if I have time and skill.

and its email client Thunderbird is an equally good one...
The best feature I found in TB is the ability to download the header first and the details later..
Also different accounts can have different Inboxes and like...
The extensions 'Redirect' and 'Padma' saves lot of trouble...

I stopped using OE.. I didnt find any reason why I should !!!

Enjoy Firefox and Thunderbird