133626 - Wrong fonts displayed on news.bbc.co.uk (occasionally)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 116273

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Neil Pearce]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020311
BuildID:    2002031104

Mozilla is repeatedly displayed pages from the
http://news.bbc.co.uk website with the wrong
fonts. If I reload, then the fonts will be displayed
correctly.

More detail:
The BBC site appears to specify an Arial font is
used throughout. Occassionlly the entire page is
rendered in what looks Times New Roman. A reload
will generally cause the page to be displayed
correctly. Occassionally this has resulted in 
hanging or a crash.

I see this on my machine, a Windows 98 SP2 with
all "critical" updates via MS "Windows Update",
used *solely* for browswing the web (No installs
other than Mozilla for the last year). I have also
seen this on others' Win98 and WinNT machines
(cannot verify "patch" levels on these machines)

I realise how useless a "occassionaly happens"
bug report is, but I've neglected to post this
report for the last 5 or 6 builds under the
assumptions
a) the site is widely browsed and the problem
will be seen by others
b) might be immediately related to mods to
latest build. let it ride out a little...

If it helps, my browsing pattern is pretty
strict...
I type "news.bbc.co.uk"
I generally select "Talking point"
I usually view some talking points, hitting back
after viewing each one.
I generally select "Sci/Tech"

I'd say 1 in 5 of these sessions results in a
single page being displayed with Times New
Roman fonts.

I don't experience the problem with any other
sites. I've never seen the problem with any
other browser.

When the problem occurs, I have "viewed source"
and there doesn't appear to be anything wrong
with what's displayed, but then the fonts are
controlled from a linked css page.

If I can help more, email [e-mail]

Reproducible: Sometimes
Steps to Reproduce:
1. I type "news.bbc.co.uk" in location bar
2. Site is displayed, I generally select "talking point"
3. I view 1 or 2 talking points, hitting back after each
4. I generally select "Sci/Teck"

1 in 5 times, a single page from this session will be
rendered in Times New Roman, rather than Arial.

Actual Results:  1 in 5 times, a single page will be displayed with
Times New Roman, rather than Arial.

Expected Results:  Displayed all pages rendered with Arial font

I am unable to reproduce HTML causing the same effect, sorry.

Comment 1

[Todd Cohn]

I'm getting the same thing without difficulty, 2002032610 Win 2000, just reload
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/default.stm  4 or 5 times.  I can't find a dupe of
this at the moment, looking into it.

Comment 2

[hirata masakazu]

In 2002032608 trunk for MacOS, wrong font is not used, but bold font is
sometimes rendered without bolding, which seem to cause spill over of texts into
the next column of a table.
		For example, 
<b class="h1">Aftershocks 'increase Afghan quake toll'</b><br>
can be displayed without bold style, which sometimes gets corrected on reloading
or changing font size.

Comment 3

[Christine Hoffman]

Changing QA contact

Comment 4

[R.K.Aa.]

dup of bug 116273-> bug 129350? (fixed evening 26th)

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Yup.  That's the one.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116273 ***