Trying to replicate 'system default' font as of 1.2.1

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I just upgraded from Mozilla 1.2.1 to 1.7.2, and now really dislike
the fonts I'm seeing.  I compared, for the 2 versions, what I saw
after selecting Edit=>Preferences=>Appearance=>Font, and the old
version says "System Default" while the new version currently says
adobe-utopia-iso8859-1.  The old fonts looked smooth and graceful;
the new ones look fuzzy, as if displayed on a very low resolution
monitor perhaps.

My questions are - is this purely a matter of font -- i.e. maybe
there is an optional smoothing algorithm being used in the first
case, and, especially if it IS just a matter of font,

How can I find out what 1.2.1 was using since it only describes
it as "System default", and I find no such choice at all on my
Mozilla 1.7.1?

Does anyone know what 1.2.1 would have been using as "System Default"
or how to find out, or anyway, how to fix this.

By the way, tho 16 point is selected on both old and new, when I print,
I get much larger type with the new version than with the old.

(I even tried running mozilla under strace, and then:

	grep '^open' strace.out|sed -e 's/", .*/"/'|pg

in hopes of seeing what font file the old mozilla opened, but
could find nothing really resembling a font file being opened
at all, tho I did see ``open("/usr/lib/gconv/ISO8859-1.so"''

Any help greatly appreciated.

Hal

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