Open Bug 1111600 Opened 11 years ago Updated 3 years ago

F5 does not refresh fonts

Categories

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

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Text and Fonts
Version:
34 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect

Tracking

()

Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: martijn, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Opera/9.80 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) Presto/2.12.388 Version/12.17 Steps to reproduce: Develop a website that has @font-face fonts, make them change somehow, and hit F5 Actual results: The font is not reloaded, EVEN when entirely disabling all forms of caching (using Firebug or the Developer Toolbar). Expected results: Fonts should reload when pressing F5.
Component: Untriaged → Layout: Text
Product: Firefox → Core
Try Shift-F5, to force it to bypass the user-font cache (which is distinct from the general http cache).
Works, and Ctrl+F5 works too. But is I *disable the entire cache* (like I said), F5 should suffice. I shouldn't have to worry about Firefox's internals, and that its font cache is more, let's say, "resilient" than regular cache. After all, font files are resources like any other, and I had no way of knowing that the font cache was a magically separate cache. What else is? So I'd still consider this a bug. Font-cache is too resilient, and should behave the same as regular cache.
Severity: normal → S3
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