1310856 - Comments in HTML emails difficult to read on gmail

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1306695

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Email Notifications, defect)

Description

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Attachment: Page-Shot-2016-10-17 [Bug 1248008] No obviously sane way to add review comments to the commit message - gszorc mozilla com - Mozilla Mail.png

I'm not sure if this is a regression/bug in a) Bugzilla b) Firefox c) GMail d) Windows, but I'm finding bug comments in HTML emails as rendered in GMail on Windows extremely difficult to read.

The attached screen shot shows an email rendered in Nightly. I find the comment text small and blurry, especially compared to the non-comment text in the email. The text is barely legible and I have to increase the font size to have a decent bug triaging experience in GMail.

The text as rendered on Chrome is also smaller and blurry. Although it renders as a lighter font weight and almost looks gray as opposed to black.

Comment 1

[Wes Kocher (:KWierso) (Not reading bugmail; email directly if needed)]

I've noticed this change recently, too.

Comment 2

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

What happens if you look at bugmail from before you noticed the change?  (Far enough before that you're sure!)

Comment 3

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Emails from several months ago (before I noticed this change) exhibit the same (blurry) behavior.

If I had to venture a guess, it would be that GMail changed some CSS, causing Bugzilla HTML emails to render differently.

Comment 4

[Mark Côté [:mcote]]

Pretty sure this is the same as bug 1306695, although the screenshot here is more illustrative.