1132975 - text presentation in Easily Webmail and Google results pages bad

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[Michael Holyoke]

Attachment: badwebmail.JPG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150122214805

Steps to reproduce:

Opened Firefox after Windows update (on 12-02-15) to Vista Home Premium SP2


Actual results:

text presentation in Easily Webmail (when composing or viewing plain text) very broken, as if lines of pixels left out.  See attached image. Also text presentation on Google results page (among others).  Problem not present in IE.  


Expected results:

Text should have been presented as before.

Comment 1

[Michael Holyoke]

This is also happening in the Bugzilla text entry window!

Comment 2

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Does it look better in the Firefox safemode ?
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

Most likely this: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-windows_update/kb3013455-ms15-010-causes-font-corruption/8640d38d-19bd-46b6-9af0-6213c05107d3

Comment 4

[Michael Holyoke]

(In reply to Matthias Versen [:Matti] from comment #2)
> Does it look better in the Firefox safemode ?
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-
> mode

Hi Matthias, yes it is also happening in safe mode.  

Thanks,

Michael

Comment 5

[Michael Holyoke]

(In reply to Alice0775 White from comment #3)
> Most likely this:
> http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_vista-
> windows_update/kb3013455-ms15-010-causes-font-corruption/8640d38d-19bd-46b6-
> 9af0-6213c05107d3

This thread seems to suggest that it only affects Courier New, but it also seems to affect whatever font Google users for the list page.

But the tenor of the thread is that I either have to uninstall the update or wait for MS to fix this.

Thanks,

M

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Can you uninstall the the Microsoft fix for a test ?

Comment 7

[Alice0775 White]

MS released https://support2.microsoft.com/kb/3037639 to fix font problem

Comment 8

[u279076]

Michael, is this still an issue for you?

Comment 9

[u279076]

Closing as incomplete due to lack of response. Please reopen this bug if you can still reproduce it in the latest Firefox version.