Troubles with fonts, graphics in firefox

I just rebooted my machine. I was trying to test a manually written grub.cfg with grub2. I screwed this up. Initially, I managed to get to a rescue shell by editing the kernel command line. I'm not sure what the correct term is - not the grub2 shell or rescue shell, I don't think, but ramfs with a sort of mini filesystem. Anyway, I replaced my backup grub.cfg and then found I didn't know how to reboot. I tried "reboot" but that did nothing and I guess there are no manuals in this shell. In experimenting, I managed to cause a kernel panic. (I think I accidentally killed init.) So I did a cold reboot. Everything now went smoothly, the system restored from the ext4 journal for the root filesystem and everything seems fine.
I am having a couple of problems. One very minor one is that Kile no longer seems to recognise .dat files as tex or latex source. I am sure I can fix this. I just mention it in case it is important to something else.
The bigger problem is that I'm seeing a lot of graphics corruption in Firefox. I've seen some of this before but it is now much worse. Also, before, it seemed tied to particular areas of a particular virtual desktop and nothing affected it. But this is tied to Firefox specifically and it changes all the time. I've never seen the location and search bar go through so many colour changes. If I reload the wiki pages, I may get ordinary coloured text or it may be rainbow coloured. I'm also getting fuzzy areas. I'm seeing a bit of this in KDE menus, too, but it seems much worse in Firefox.
More weirdly, fonts in Firefox are screwed up.
I'm not sure what font the wiki uses for ordinary text. It seems to be the same as on the forums and in this text box. In any case, all occurrences of 's' are replaced by squiggles. I am assuming my 's's will appear correctly to those reading this but in case I've mistyped or something, I am referring to the first letter of words such as 'school', 'schlep' and 'slippery slivers of silver sardines swimming surprisingly slowly'. This makes reading the wiki rather difficult. (There are a lot of 's's in it!) I was trying to find out how to reboot cleanly from the ramfs in case I end up there again.
EDIT: In Firefox, the 's' in 'fonts' in the post title (once posted) is fine. So is the 's' in 'Forums' at the top of the page. Below this text box, the 'S' in 'Smilies' is fine but the 's' is not. The 's' in 'Options' is also OK but the option appears as 'Never ~how ~milie~ a~ icon~ for thi~ po~t'!
Suggestions for the font issue would be very gratefully received. I looked through the last updates I did (today) and didn't see anything obvious but I then realised I wasn't sure what quite to look for. Here are the log entries from today:
[2012-03-25 20:35] upgraded curl (7.24.0-2 -> 7.25.0-1)
[2012-03-25 20:35] upgraded gptfdisk (0.8.2-1 -> 0.8.3-1)
[2012-03-25 20:35] upgraded kmod (6-1 -> 7-1)
[2012-03-25 20:35] upgraded libupnp (1.6.15-1 -> 1.6.16-1)
[2012-03-25 20:36] upgraded liferea (1.8.2-1 -> 1.8.3-1)
[2012-03-25 20:36] >>> Updating module dependencies. Please wait ...
[2012-03-25 20:36] >>> Generating initial ramdisk, using mkinitcpio. Please wait...
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Building image from preset: 'default'
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Starting build: 3.0.25-1-lts
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [autodetect]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [resume]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts.img
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Building image from preset: 'fallback'
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> -k /boot/vmlinuz-linux-lts -c /etc/mkinitcpio.conf -g /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img -S autodetect
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Starting build: 3.0.25-1-lts
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [base]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [udev]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [pata]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [scsi]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [sata]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [resume]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [filesystems]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [usbinput]
[2012-03-25 20:36] -> Parsing hook: [fsck]
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Generating module dependencies
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Creating gzip initcpio image: /boot/initramfs-linux-lts-fallback.img
[2012-03-25 20:36] ==> Image generation successful
[2012-03-25 20:36] upgraded linux-lts (3.0.24-1 -> 3.0.25-1)
[2012-03-25 20:36] upgraded perl-net-ssleay (1.42-2 -> 1.45-1)
[2012-03-25 20:36] upgraded taglib (1.7-4 -> 1.7.1-1)
[2012-03-25 20:36] upgraded whois (5.0.14-1 -> 5.0.15-1)
[2012-03-25 20:36] Exited with code 0
[2012-03-25 20:40] Exited with code 0
(END)
I am booting the standard kernel, not the lts, so the upgrade hasn't affected the kernel. I wasn't sure what libupnp did but judging by the package descriptions resulting from a pacman -Ss upnp, it doesn't seem likely to have anything to do with fonts but rather networking.
I checked ~/.xsession-errors in case Firefox was logging any errors there but I can't see anything relevant - all the errors seem to be KDE's usual prolific output.
Should I look further back? I probably didn't reboot after every previous system upgrade. Or did my messing with grub and causing a panic do some sort of damage which might be causing this? (I thought that was fairly unlikely but maybe I'm just being unduly optimistic.)
EDIT: When people post code, the 's's are OK but the 'a's and 'm's are squiggles instead.
I'm using the infinality freetype, fontconfig etc. Could that have anything to do with the problem? I didn't just install them or make any changes but might some other package have changed in a way that is incompatible with these? Or which requires some tweaking I'm not aware of?
Last edited by cfr (2012-03-25 22:43:36)

Er... my 's's have magically returned? But I have no idea why. I didn't even restart Firefox. (I'd already tried that and it made no difference.)
Would really like to know why...
EDIT: I still don't have 'm's etc. in code listings, though.
Last edited by cfr (2012-03-26 00:58:19)

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