1208644 - Text rendering issues when gfx.content.azure.backends is set to "skia"

Status: NEW

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect, P3)

Description

[Clemens Eisserer]

Attachment: skia_cairo.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:44.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/44.0
Build ID: 20150925030206

Steps to reproduce:

1. Set gfx.content.azure.backends=skia
2. opened facebook,  text rendering issues were visible


Actual results:

there are text-rendering issues with gfx.content.azure.backends set to skia, even when gfx.canvas.azure.accelerated =false (so no graphic driver issues.
Screenshot attached


Expected results:

same result as with gfx.content.azure.backends=cairo

Comment 1

[Clemens Eisserer]

Attachment: Screenshot of similar issue on Amazon.com

Experienced exactly the same issue on Amazon.com, Screenshot attached.

Comment 2

[Loic]

Sorry for the core-security flag, it was a bad click.

Comment 3

[Arpad Borsos [:Swatinem]]

I have the same problem and I have uploaded a few screenshots here:
https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/issues/126

I only noticed this problem since I updated to freetype 2.6.2, that’s why I reported the problem there.

Switching back to cairo solved the font rendering for me completely.
Downgrading to freetype 2.6.1 solved some of my problem but not all, so this is also definitely related to the freetype version.

Comment 4

[Arpad Borsos [:Swatinem]]

Attachment: video of jumping text on resize

Comment 5

[Arpad Borsos [:Swatinem]]

Just checked with the newest nightly, which has bug 1082598, and this is still an issue.

Comment 6

[Bas Schouten (:bas.schouten)]

Yeah.. I think right now that simply isn't a supported configuration. There's more bugs than just that when using content skia. I think these days it actually crashes. Lee is doing the work to make Skia content work so making sure he's CC'ed.

Comment 7

[antistress]

Attachment: skia&Firefox46.0a2(2016-02-17)fromDebianMozillaTeam.jpg

Same problem here with Iceweasel 46.0a2 (2016-02-17)from Debian Mozilla team on Debian Sid 64 bits & libfreetype6 2.6.3-3

Comment 8

[Lee Salzman [:lsalzman]]

Possibly a dup of bug 1265615 where autohinting settings are not consistent between Cairo and Skia, leading to disagreements between the metrics and rendering code, causing some glyphs to be cropped.