1065986 - Plain text files rendered in proportional font instead of monospace

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1065016

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[rckghker]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:32.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/32.0
Build ID: 20140901122935

Steps to reproduce:

Preferences → Content → Fonts & Colors → Advanced with these settings:

    Proportional: Sans Serif
    Serif: serif
    Sans-serif: sans-serif
    Monospace: monospace

    [✓] Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selection
        above

Open a plain text file in Firefox, e.g. [1,2].  It is rendered in
proportional font.  The font used can be chosen with the "Sans-serif"
setting above.

With

    [ ] Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selection
        above

instead, the font used can be chosen with the "Monospace" setting
above.

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[1] file:///home/username/.profile
[2] https://svn.uni-konstanz.de/dbis/inf2_s14/pub/pk2-13.lhs

Comment 1

[rckghker]

A workaround and further discussion can be found in the Support forum:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1019325