Closed Bug 1205534 Opened 9 years ago Closed 9 years ago

Default property "font.minimum-size.x-western=10" causes much too big font size on particular web page

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(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Unspecified
Windows 7
defect
Not set
minor

Tracking

(seamonkey2.38 unaffected)

RESOLVED INVALID
Tracking Status
seamonkey2.38 --- unaffected

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(Reporter: RainerBielefeldNG, Unassigned)

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Steps how to reproduce  with  German SeaMonkey 2.38b1  (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:41.0)  Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0 Build 20150904215228  (Classic Theme) on German WIN7 64bit:

1. In browser go to <https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201222>
   (if you want with newly created profile)
   » Brown background heading line looks normal
   Bug: Gigantic size of characters for following text
2. To URL location input lint type "about:config" → Confirm Warning → 
   search for "font.minimum-size.x-western" → change setting in
   found hit from 10 to 0
   (Unser Ant found this at mozilla.support.seamonkey 
    "Lots of huge stuff on Apple's web pages? Found its cause...")
   » Now page looks normal

Additional info:
a) Page View was still ok  with EN-US SeaMonkey 2.26  (Portable) 
   Gecko/20120604 Firefox/13.0 Build 20140428215944 ( Classic Theme) on 
   German WIN7 64bit SourceStamp=205f9a8e2840
b) Already reproducible with EN-US SeaMonkey 2.33.1 (German Language
   pack)  Gecko/20100101 Build 20150321194901 (Classic Theme) on 
   German WIN7 64bit
c) No Problem on that page with IE11
d) No problem on that page with FF 43.0a1 (2015-09-16) (what has 
   font.minimum-size.x-western = 0 as default)
e) Problem might be caused by page, but may be with  changed default
   "font.minimum-size.x-western" we might avoid such problems
   Are any reasons known why we have "10" as default?
f) Minor because not many pages seem to be affected
Severity: normal → minor
OS: Unspecified → Windows 7
Summary: property font.minimum-size.x-western=10 causes much too big font size on particular web page → Default property "font.minimum-size.x-western=10" causes much too big font size on particular web page
Is this a bug in the browser or Apple web site's fault?
@Rainer:

Here with the SeaMonkey 2.35 64 Bit (Linux) "font.minimum-size.x-western=" is set to "0" at "Standard", the Apple-Website works normal here. But i see, that the Site has a lot of errors in CSS and HTML!
(In reply to Michael Speier from comment #4)
(In reply to Ant from comment #3)

e): Probably mainly a problem with wrong HTML / CSS on that web page.
    But a browser should be fault-tolerant, and we will have to check whether that  
    goal can be reached better with "font.minimum-size.x-western=10" or
    "font.minimum-size.x-western=0"?
h) And this one might be INVALID or WFM: For report I did an additional test 
   with a Profile I created few days ago with a SM version I can't remember 
   to test an autocomplete-issue, and this profile has default = 10. 
   But a newly created  profile from SM 38 has default 0 and does not 
   cause the problem.
   I will do some further investigation
Version: SeaMonkey 2.33 Branch → unspecified
My results in user report might have been nonsense, currently I can't reproduce a default "font.minimum-size.x-western=10" for newly created profiles with 2.33.1, 2.35, 2.38b1 (all: WIN7).

So INVALID for now.

But I can't be sure that there really is no problem at all because of the nearby newly created test profile what hat "font.minimum-size.x-western=10".

s @all:
Please feel free to reopen this Bug if you can reproduce the problem with a newly created user profile, current SeaMonkey version and a current OS and if you can contribute a step by step instruction how to reproduce the problem reliably.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 9 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
According to the W3C test tool, the cited Web page has 17 HTML errors and 108 CSS errors.  No one should expect Gecko to render such a page without problems.
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