246137 - always use my fonts, not always working

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[logan]

I've come across at least 3 sites where my font settings are being ignored or
overridden... suprnova.org (everything), freshmeat.net (form buttons), and
NetTracker 6 (form buttons)

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Fonts & Colors:

Proportional: Sans Serif
Serif: Times
Sans-serif: Helvetica
Monospace: Courier

Always use my: Fonts

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I've tried to create a testcase for all, but I was only able to make something
reproducable by using source from suprnova.org, specifically when the charset
meta tag is added.

gtk1 builds of Mozilla or Firefox don't exhibit this behavior, can't imagine
it's something that's gtk2-only/been around for a long while. Firefox 0.9rc is
my first real use of a gtk2 build.

Comment 1

[logan]

Attachment: testcase

Comment 2

[logan]

The button thing on freshmeat I was able to workaround by throwing the following
into my userContent.css, if that helps.

button, input[type="reset"], input[type="button"], input[type="submit"] {
    font: -moz-button !important
}

This is basicly what's in forms.css, minus the !important, so I dunno what the
deal is.

Comment 3

[Steffen Wilberg]

the "web site" component is for Firefox-related pages on mozilla.org.
-> general

Comment 4

[logan]

Sorry man, I don't remember selecting website.

Anyway, this also happens in the gtk1 nightlies. I'll often be viewing
suprnova.org, then going to imdb and all of a sudden the document fonts or font
sizes are being used on imdb.

The only way I can get imdb to use the proper fonts after that is to restart the
browser and shift+reload the page.

Comment 5

[logan]

The same thing happens under firefox 0.8 gtk2 builds as well. I don't think I'm
confused about this, am I? Figured other's would have reported similar problems,
but I can't find anything.

For now, I've just setup ~/.fonts.conf to prefer Helvetica for sans-serif:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <alias>
    <family>sans-serif</family>
    <prefer>
      <family>Helvetica</family>
    </prefer>
  </alias>
</fontconfig>

Comment 6

[logan]

I know there's more important things out there, but I'd sure hate to see this in
1.0. It drives me nuts... :P

Comment 7

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

we'd take a patch, but this isn't something that we're going to block the
release for.

Comment 8

[logan]

Well, looks like I screwed up... My regular profile had bad prefs and the new
one wasn't always taking the new font settings for everything. I've been running
with my intended config for a few days now and everything seems ok.

Resolving as GOZERED.