Indesign CS4 Problem with Fonts

Hello,
If I select to edit a font from anywhere other than the top menu (the bar) the app crashes. If I go to the tabs click the font menu, it scrolls for 2 seconds then bombs.
What can i do?

You have not provided any proper system info or other details. The obvious answer is that you have a "bad" font on your system that causes the crash when rendering the font previews and need to remove it...
Mylenium

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John Waller wrote:
I guess this a follow up to your earlier thread
http://forums.adobe.com/message/3627681
What would really help you in diagnosing issues such as this is to install the Firebug add-in for Firefox (as suggested in the earlier thread).
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