1454196 - font weight is too light/thin for this font (compared to Chrome)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1607913

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

Description

[Will]

Attachment: fontweighttoolightinfirefox.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180323154952

Steps to reproduce:

the text/font in the body of Chrome bug pages is a lot lighter/thinner in Firefox compared to Chrome, I suspect this is incorrect. Here is a test bug https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=460919 and attached is a screenshot comparison of what I'm seeing (Firefox in red box)



Expected results:

Viewing the same page in Edge shows heavier/thicker font weight too but Edge seems to zoom in Chrome bug pages incorrectly so I'm not sure if we should look at Edge here

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Those are two different fonts. For that pre element, the page specifies font-family: monospace, font-weight: 400 (i.e. normal). Firefox uses its default monospace font, Courier New, while Chrome uses what looks like Consolas. [1]

Vivaldi, a browser with the same rendering engine as Chrome, also uses Consolas, but text thickness is similar to Firefox.

[1] Bug 468169, bug 713680.