1645631 - kerning issue for refresh firefox option (space between letters unevenly distributed) - scaling issue?

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: Installer, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Attachment: screenshot firefox refresh kerning issue

Firefox 79.0a1 stub installer in German on Windows 8.1

See the attached screenshot. The option to refresh Firefox has the space between letters unevenly distributed e.g. the "k" and "s" are connected.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Download http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-l10n/Firefox%20Installer.de.exe
2. Install it.
3. Run the installer again? Haven't verified the steps, already had it installed before.

This option is new in Firefox 78.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The severity field is not set for this bug.
:nalexander, could you have a look please?

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Comment 2

[Nick Alexander :nalexander [he/him]]

This is very minor -- S4 -- but annoying.

agashlin: a skim through the patch from Bug 1633505 suggests that this text is rendered by NSIS. Is this a known issue with l10n in NSIS? A Win32 API issue? Something that we can address with careful suggestions to localizers?

Comment 3

[Adam Gashlin (he/him) [:agashlin] (ex-moco)]

Attachment: de refresh prompt on Windows 10

This text is rendered by the Web Browser control (essentially the IE engine), I don't think we have fine control over the font rendering. For what it's worth, I don't see that particular issue on Windows 10.