1059500 - Fonts occasionally get smaller than when the page was opened, producing spurious spaces

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1132870

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect)

Description

[Vincent Lefevre]

Attachment: 2014-08-27-22-39-17.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Android; Mobile; rv:32.0) Gecko/32.0 Firefox/32.0 (Nightly/Aurora)
Build ID: 20140825193825

Steps to reproduce:

The page https://www.vinc17.net/cine/ac-cac-imdb-wh.xml was open.


Actual results:

After some time, its rendering was incorrect, with spurious spaces and a smaller font than usual. See attached snapshot.


Expected results:

The layout shouldn't have changed. A reload solved the problem.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

If you head into settings and customize options, you can reduce the font to tiniest. Reload the page and I bet it's fixed. If not, than I suspect that this is related to content font-inflation.

Comment 2

[Vincent Lefevre]

This problem has just occurred again. The spurious spaces (horizontal and vertical) seem to be a direct consequence of the small font: the font size has changed without changing the absolute position of the words.

Comment 3

[Vincent Lefevre]

(In reply to Aaron Train [:aaronmt] from comment #1)
> If you head into settings and customize options, you can reduce the font to
> tiniest.

This is not a solution as this makes the default font size too small.

> Reload the page and I bet it's fixed.

As I've said in my report, a reload solves the problem (without the need to change the font size in the settings). But the problem shouldn't occur in the first place.

Comment 4

[Vincent Lefevre]

Attachment: Another screenshot

This is actually not specific to XML.

Comment 5

[Vincent Lefevre]

Reproduced with FF 34.0 on Samsung Galaxy Note 3.

Comment 6

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

This seems to be the same problem as Bug 1132870, which seems to have been fixed since Firefox 37.
If not, feel free to reopen.