The bug was reported at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526977 It is a regression. Patch is in the bug report. Log it here to track for 1.10.
commit ce3ad6f41edf86ed6914f4d7f364111eba42ca65 Author: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk> Date: Wed Mar 31 08:21:17 2010 +0100 xlib: Avoid multiple evaluations inside bswap_*() macro. Fixes: Fonts are not readable if remote display to a machine with different endian. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=526977 Reported-and-tested-by: Ginn Chen <Ginn.Chen@Sun.COM>
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