Bug 164623 - Firefox font rendering looks uneven
Summary: Firefox font rendering looks uneven
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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Blocks: FIREFOX_PANGO
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2005-07-29 13:45 UTC by Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:11 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2007-10-01 10:29:43 UTC
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rendering comparison: left=Rawhide, right=current mozilla.org nightly (65.33 KB, image/png)
2005-07-29 13:45 UTC, Dennis Jacobfeuerborn
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Description Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2005-07-29 13:45:39 UTC
Description of problem:
The font rendering in Rawhides Firefox looks very uneven and "ugly" when
compared to the current nightly build from mozilla.org. (see attached screenshot)

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-1.1-0.2.4.deerpark.alpha2

How reproducible:
Always

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Comment 1 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2005-07-29 13:45:39 UTC
Created attachment 117272 [details]
rendering comparison: left=Rawhide, right=current mozilla.org nightly

Comment 2 Bill Nottingham 2005-07-30 00:12:51 UTC
What versions of pango and cairo do you have installed?

Comment 3 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2005-07-30 14:51:08 UTC
pango-1.9.1-1
cairo-0.6.0-1

but the rendering looked the same with the versions before the last Rawhide
update of these packages.

Comment 4 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2005-07-30 15:03:49 UTC
For the record: Disabling Pango in /usr/bin/firefox by uncommenting the
following lines (as mentioned in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=164664 ) makes the
font-rendering look fine again.

---
##
## Set MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO is no longer used because Pango is enabled by default
## you may use MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1 to force disabling of pango
##
MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO=1
export MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO
---

Comment 5 Dennis Jacobfeuerborn 2005-08-03 12:55:50 UTC
Now that bug 164664 is fixed i was able to use firefox with pango enabled for a
while and noticed that the problem on appears with serif fonts while sans-serif
fonts are displayed correctly.

Comment 6 Parag Nemade 2007-10-01 10:29:43 UTC
Very old Bug. Closing this for now as we already got new updated firefox in
rawhide now. Kindly submit bugs against new rawhide version.


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