1423366 - Text truncated shorter on Linux in browserAction badge

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(WebExtensions :: Frontend, defect, P5)

Description

[Alex]

Attachment: A few screenshots detailing this bug. From left to right: plus and minus sign on Firefox, plus sign working on Chrome. Note that the plus sign isn't displayed.

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/538.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) QupZilla/1.9.0 Safari/538.1

Steps to reproduce:

Use the following snippet in an addon:
`chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText("123+")` and then
`chrome.browserAction.setBadgeText("123-")`


Actual results:

The badge in the addon button should correctly display a plus sign (+), but it doesn't. Writing a minus sign (-) works: it is displayed correctly on the badge.


Expected results:

The badge should display "123+" and not simply "123".

Comment 1

[Andy McKay]

Attachment: Screenshot 2017-12-19 13.03.31.png

Works for me on OS X. Suspect this is a graphics sizing issue and anything that runs over the edge of the badge is not being shown. Probably a platform issue, since it looks like you are on Linux.

Comment 2

[Alex]

I'm on Windows 10 and I had a couple people that use my extension report the same issue. Could it be an issue with the default fallback fonts that Firefox uses?

Comment 3

[Alex]

Yup, just confirmed. It works fine on Linux, but on Windows it is truncated. This is an issue with the font being used by Windows on badge texts. Is it possible to change it via userContent.css?