Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 245480
firefox "application" font messed up
Last modified: 2007-12-20 11:48:07 EST
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
Created attachment 157699 [details] a fragment of a display showing "the same" font in firefox and elsewhere
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.
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