Quoting steve ulrich (sulrich at botwerks.org):
> mozilla will automatically take advantage of tt fonts if the X server
> makes them available.  you can check to make sure that the fonts are
> accessible by selecting the new fonts within the preferences panel.  
> 
> if you're looking for a particular site - you might try something
> along the lines of msnbc.com where they typically will use the MS
> fonts which are available w/i IE.

Actually, the official mozilla rpms and src.rpm have ttf turned OFF by default.

http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130493

Looking in the spec file, sure enough --disable-truetype, removed that,
recompiled and I got ttf working great.
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