1173826 - Font selection seems broken on Linux

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1174946

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

Attachment: fastmail: weird thin sans serif

Browsing random websites on latest nightly, I seem to get a thin sans serif instead of a normal serif (on twitter, fastmail), and a sans-serif font instead of a fixed-width font (on github).

Comment 1

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

Attachment: Github: sans serif instead of fixed width

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

I wonder if this is a result of the caching patches in bug 1165693. :(  Could you confirm the exact build where it regressed for you?

Comment 3

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

I observed this behaviour on the build of the 2015-06-10, and on today's build as well.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Sounds very likely this is due to bug 1165693. John, can you investigate at all, or maybe tell Paul what sort of logging, etc., would help to diagnose?

Comment 6

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

I can confirm that this only happens on Linux. Both Mac and Windows are not affected.

Comment 7

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]: regression which renders websites more or less usable.

Comment 8

[Tom S [:evilpie]]

Can we get somebody assigned to this bug?

Comment 9

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

This broke treeherder cset IDs as well. (Now they're mostly too long & get ellipsized.) See bug 1175991.

Comment 10

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

Adding a tracking flag for FF41. This must be a regression(?!), adding a keyword to reflect that.

Comment 11

[John Daggett (:jtd)]

Guessing this is a dupe of bug 1174946.

Comment 12

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

Paul, can you please verify if this issue is fixed for you on a latest version of dev edition (FF41)? I'd like to resolve this based on comment 11 but waiting for confirmation from you before I do that.

Comment 13

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

It works for me, now, yes.

Comment 14

[Ritu Kothari (:ritu) (Inactive, please n-i to RyanVM, jcristau, or pascal)]

Thanks Paul! Resolved -> "WFM" based on comment 13.