159272 - Serif font dominates over all others

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 159227

(Camino Graveyard :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Neil Lee [:neilio]]

Sorry for the National Enquirer sounding summary, but I've noticed that serif
font settings change nearly all of the pages I encounter to display with it
rather than a sans-serif font. I'm not positive I understand how fonts are
handled w/r/t Chimera, but shouldn't sans-serif be the default?

Comment 1

[saari (gone)]

->sfraser

Comment 2

[Steve Smart]

WRT the original bug, there should be a pop-up menu that lets you choose which
font-family you want to be the default: serif, sans-serif, monospace, cursive;
rather than us picking sans-serif (or serif) for everyone (IMHO).

Comment 3

[john]

You can edit this in Mozilla & Chimera will pick up the setting. Adding the
following line to my prefs.js file produced the desired effect:

user_pref("font.default", "sans-serif");

Comment 4

[Bill McGonigle (not currently reading bugmail; please contact directly)]

This bug is for exposing the pref in the UI then?  Good idea, IMHO, but the
summary should be updated.

Comment 5

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Same root case as bug 159227.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 159227 ***

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

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