1387315 - Google fonts doesn't load, JS errors?

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

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

Description

[Paul]

Attachment: Error page

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Build ID: 20170803100352

Steps to reproduce:

I visited https://fonts.google.com/. 


Actual results:

I got the 'Something went wrong. Please try again soon.' screen. I see a few JS errors in the console too. 


Expected results:

The fonts webpage should've rendered as it does on other browsers.

Comment 1

[Paul]

Attachment: JS errors

Comment 2

[Paul]

Sorry I couldn't come up with more details, short on time right now and the error message is cryptic :|

Comment 3

[Paul]

Tried using `mozregression`, even the `2017-01-01` build doesn't render the page properly.

Comment 4

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Confirming, I see this as well using Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0 ID:20170804100354 CSet: 32083f24a1bb2c33050b4c972783f066432194eb.

Works with the latest Firefox beta. 

Moving to Layout, please feel free to rebucket if that is not the right home for this bug.

Comment 5

[Ben Kelly [:bkelly, not reviewing]]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

Nightly is 57, but beta is still 55.  Comment 3 suggests this also happens in 56, though.

Comment 6

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Probably the usual Google Fonts issue with broken OpenType tables; see bug 1331737. Setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.otl_validation to false will probably avoid the issue.

Comment 7

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

(In reply to Jonathan Kew (:jfkthame) from comment #6)
> Probably the usual Google Fonts issue with broken OpenType tables; see bug
> 1331737. Setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.otl_validation to false will
> probably avoid the issue.

BTW, note that the Web Console may not show the specific font errors unless you toggle the display of CSS messages: click the icon to the left of the "filter output" field, and enable the CSS tab. (See bug 1347986 about the poor discoverability of this.)

Comment 8

[Paul]

(In reply to Jonathan Kew (:jfkthame) from comment #6)
> Probably the usual Google Fonts issue with broken OpenType tables; see bug
> 1331737. Setting gfx.downloadable_fonts.otl_validation to false will
> probably avoid the issue.

That fixed it. Also verified that this doesn't break the non-nightly firefox build, as mentioned in bug 1331737. 

> The default behavior will still be as now -- such fonts will load on Beta/Release, so we don't annoy too many users, but Nightly/DevEd will block them and issue console error messages to encourage people to report and fix out-of-spec fonts and font-deployment workflows.

I think this is safe to close, then.

Comment 9

[Gerry Chang [:gchang]]

Per comment #8, mark 56/57 won't fix.