Bug 1411273 - Firefox and Thunderbird ignore font hinting settings
Summary: Firefox and Thunderbird ignore font hinting settings
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 26
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2017-01-09 10:23 UTC by Pierre Ossman
Modified: 2018-05-29 11:25 UTC (History)
11 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2018-05-29 11:25:38 UTC
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screenshot of thunderbird (46.61 KB, image/png)
2017-01-09 10:23 UTC, Pierre Ossman
no flags Details
screenshot of gtk-demo (31.80 KB, image/png)
2017-01-09 10:24 UTC, Pierre Ossman
no flags Details

Description Pierre Ossman 2017-01-09 10:23:16 UTC
Created attachment 1238617 [details]
screenshot of thunderbird

Regression after upgrade from Fedora 24 to Fedora 25.

Neither Firefox nor Thunderbird respect the font hinting setting anymore. Other applications work just fine AFAICT.

See attached screenshots for a comparison between Thunderbird and gtk-demo.

Comment 1 Pierre Ossman 2017-01-09 10:24:00 UTC
Created attachment 1238618 [details]
screenshot of gtk-demo

Comment 2 Pierre Ossman 2017-01-09 11:36:22 UTC
Found the reason. Fontconfig settings seem to trump session settings. And Fedora 25 has /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf by default.

Feel free to pass around blame to where you feel this should be fixed. ;)

Comment 3 Pierre Ossman 2017-09-20 12:47:00 UTC
Still broken in Fedora 26.

firefox-55.0.3-1.fc26.x86_64
thunderbird-52.3.0-1.fc26.x86_64

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