Bug 366271 - firefox menu fonts are smaller compared with other GNOME applications
Summary: firefox menu fonts are smaller compared with other GNOME applications
Keywords:
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 8
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard: pleaForReproductionFF3
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2007-11-05 00:33 UTC by Nikos Charonitakis
Modified: 2018-04-11 08:56 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

Fixed In Version: f8
Clone Of:
Environment:
Last Closed: 2008-02-21 23:09:01 UTC
Type: ---
Embargoed:


Attachments (Terms of Use)
epiphany/ Firefox "File Edit" side by side (8.09 KB, image/png)
2007-11-05 00:44 UTC, Nikos Charonitakis
no flags Details
firefox menu fonts compared to gnome applications (733.83 KB, image/png)
2008-01-02 14:22 UTC, Nikos Charonitakis
no flags Details


Links
System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Mozilla Foundation 414427 0 None None None Never

Description Nikos Charonitakis 2007-11-05 00:33:13 UTC
Description of problem:
f8rc3 live cd:
Firefox menu fonts are smaller compared with other GNOME applications.
That' it :)


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Comment 1 Nikos Charonitakis 2007-11-05 00:44:47 UTC
Created attachment 247701 [details]
epiphany/ Firefox "File Edit" side by side

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2007-11-07 14:10:35 UTC
Have you installed Fedora? If yes, could you try this last version from
http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=23359 please? Couple of
reporters claimed that it got better with that.

Comment 3 Nikos Charonitakis 2007-11-20 21:59:17 UTC
ok i actually installed F8 (not livecd) and everything is as expected

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2007-11-21 13:14:24 UTC
Thanks for letting us know.

Comment 5 Nikos Charonitakis 2008-01-02 14:20:22 UTC
i see it again...
My main account has not this problem.
But i created another account to the same system and firefox fonts are again
smaller.


Comment 6 Nikos Charonitakis 2008-01-02 14:22:48 UTC
Created attachment 290655 [details]
firefox menu fonts compared to gnome applications

Comment 7 Matěj Cepl 2008-01-02 23:10:29 UTC
does renaming your ~/.mozilla folder in the main account and restarting firefox
helps?

Behdadh, do you think this has any relationship to bug 240959?

Comment 8 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-05 17:10:15 UTC
Reporter, could you please reply to the previous question? If you won't reply in
one month, I will have to close this bug as INSUFFICIENT_DATA. Thank you.

Comment 9 Nikos Charonitakis 2008-02-08 01:07:52 UTC
your suggestion did not make any difference.
I still try to see what happens...
A fresh install of fedora 8 showed me that the problem is present.
On first login to a user account firefox fonts are clearly smaller.
Then i apply all updates and firefox fonts getting bigger (on a second login),
but on a close look they are still smaller compared to other gnome applications.


Comment 10 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-08 15:35:48 UTC
Could you check in the Advanced Font properties of Gnome and Font settings of
firefox that you have exactly same value of dpi?

Comment 11 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-21 22:34:51 UTC
At this point, we're going to only be taking security fixes and major stability
fixes into this release of Fedora.  However, we still want to ensure the bug is
fixed in the next version.  We'd appreciate if you could test Firefox 3,
available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html or now shipping
as the default in Fedora rawhide and provide feedback as to whether it still
exists so we can file a ticket upstream to try to fix it in Firefox 3 before it
is released.

Comment 12 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-21 22:36:10 UTC
At this point, we're going to only be taking security fixes and major stability
fixes into this release of Fedora.  However, we still want to ensure the bug is
fixed in the next version.  We'd appreciate if you could test Firefox 3,
available at http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html or now shipping
as the default in Fedora rawhide and provide feedback as to whether it still
exists so we can file a ticket upstream to try to fix it in Firefox 3 before it
is released.

Comment 13 Nikos Charonitakis 2008-02-21 22:55:28 UTC
oops, i forgot about this bug.
So i tried again to see what happens
Here we go:

a)create a new user and log in this new account
b)desktop dpi is not ok. By default it sets 86dpi (too small for my screen )
c) firefox fonts are certainly smaller compared to other GNOME apps
c)set manually dpi to 96dpi
d)restart firefox
e)firefox fonts are inline with other apps

So is this a dpi auto setting thing?



Comment 14 Matěj Cepl 2008-02-21 23:09:01 UTC
We found that this bug has been already registered in the upstream database
(https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414427) and believe that it is
more appropriate to let it be resolved upstream.

Red Hat will continue to track the issue in the centralized upstream bug
tracker, and will review any bug fixes that become available for consideration
in future updates.

Thank you for the bug report.


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