1182888 - Fonts scaling improperly

Status: REOPENED

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

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

Attachment: Font cutting off strangely

Visited this site:

http://www.hopesandfears.com/hopes/city/city/214995-whatever-happened-to-the-tunnel-of-love

On my Windows machine and the font is doing strange things. Lines seem to be missing. (See attachment).

when I enlarge or make it smaller, it gets even worse.

I tried turning hardware acceleration on/off and it had no effect.

The site displays fine on my Mac.

It seems like a scaling issue?

Comment 1

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

This appears to be related to Windows's really bad font scaling when using multiple displays.

Unselecting "Let me choose one scaling level for all my displays" causes Windows to make some really bad choices that break Firefox (and other apps like Word).

So I'm not sure there is anything we can do about it.

But it looks like to recreate, have a second display and uncheck "let me choose one scaling level for all displays"

Comment 2

[BMO Automation]

Per policy at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Bug_Triage/Projects/Bug_Handling/Bug_Husbandry#Inactive_Bugs. If this bug is not an enhancement request or a bug not present in a supported release of Firefox, then it may be reopened.