Bug 245480 – firefox "application" font messed up

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Bug 245480 - firefox "application" font messed up

Summary:	firefox "application" font messed up

Status:	CLOSED CANTFIX

Aliases:	None

Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	firefox (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	low Severity high
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Assigned To:	Christopher Aillon
QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Reported:	2007-06-23 17:12 EDT by Michal Jaegermann
Modified:	2018-04-11 06:27 EDT (History)
CC List:	4 users (show)

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Last Closed:	2007-12-20 11:48:07 EST
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a fragment of a display showing "the same" font in firefox and elsewhere (4.50 KB, image/png) 2007-06-23 17:12 EDT, Michal Jaegermann	no flags	Details
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Description Michal Jaegermann 2007-06-23 17:12:25 EDT

Description of problem:

A series of quick experiments indicates that in menus, toolbars,
similar and, the most essential, URL display firefox is using what
in preferences is called "Application Font".  Well, not exactly.
For example making this font bold is causing a switch to bold
in those mentioned places in firefox too but if you will do that with
italics then this is ignored although in other locations, outside
of firefox, fonts do change.

What is much more important is that firefox scales down font sizes
making them unreadable for those who has troubles with vision.
You can push up a font size making those accepteble in firefox but
then "the same" font used in menus, on a panel, and elsewhere becomes
ridiculously big creating other problems.  Is there a really
good reason for firefox to use "private" font rendering thus
creating a loose-loose situation?

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
firefox-2.0.0.4-2.fc8

Comment 1 Michal Jaegermann 2007-06-23 17:12:25 EDT

Created attachment 157699 [details]
a fragment of a display showing "the same" font in firefox and elsewhere

Comment 2 Michal Jaegermann 2007-10-30 16:02:02 EDT

With the current firefox from rawhide I see the same size font
used in menu bars or menus as in similar elements in other places.
Is this the case for everybody?  I have an impression, maybe not
correct, that something funny is going on here.

Comment 3 Matěj Cepl 2007-12-20 11:48:07 EST

We just updated the Firefox version in Fedora/development from 2.0 to a 3.0
pre-release version, which improves performance, memory usage, and fixes many
bugs and crashes.

Closing as CANTFIX since we aren't fixing bugs filed against 2.0 now that 3.0 is
in.  If this bug is still present in rawhide using a Firefox 3.0 version, please
re-open this bug.

Thanks and Happy Holidays

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