Firefox will read all the unicode fonts without any problem..

But some times it will not render some proprietary fonts such as manorama, karthika, tikkana, hemalatha etc. They are dynamic fonts.

In such situation , here we have an extension in firefox called Padma. We will get it as an add-on of firefox.

Method of installation:

1. Click tools menu of firefox and select add-ons.

2. Then get extensions –>browse all add-ons.

3. search for padma and add it to firefox.

4. restart your firefox.

5. Now you solved your problem….

Some times in windows openoffice cannot render malayalam correctly. In such situations do the following …

1. open the particular opeonoffice application such as openofice org or calc etc.

2. Click the menu tools and select options.

3. Then language settings , click language.

4. Then in the right side bottom you can see a check box enabled for complex text layouts(CTL)

5. Now enabled the CTL select box and select malayalam from this select box.

Now you completed the settings and can use malayalam comfortly