Font weights are unnaturally thin in menupopups and native-anonymous tooltips since Bug 1722258
Categories
(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)
Tracking
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| Tracking | Status | |
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| firefox-esr78 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox-esr91 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox90 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox91 | --- | unaffected |
| firefox92 | --- | fixed |
People
(Reporter: aminomancer, Unassigned)
References
(Regression)
Details
(Keywords: regression)
Attachments
(2 files)
Before
If you open a context menu and a panel side-by-side you can see that text, despite having the same font weight, is much thinner in the context menu. The same is true for native-anonymous tooltips, but not any of the unique tooltips from browser.xhtml. This seems to be true regardless of the font face. Tested on Firefox 92, 20210729093615, on Windows 10. I noticed it this morning after updating. According to @itiel this is a regression by 1722258.
I just noticed that the text can be cut off from the top, see screenshots above.
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Comment 4•3 years ago
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I can reproduce the issue in Nightly92.0a1 Wimdows10 with system theme.
After landing Bug 1722258, the font in context menu and select dropdown is gray-text AA instead of sub-pixel AA.
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Updated•3 years ago
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Comment 5•3 years ago
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Oddly, the issue is gone in menupopups and panels, but I'm now seeing some inconsistent behavior within tooltips. Font weight 400 looks normal in every tooltip I can find, except in the proton tab tooltip #tabbrowser-tab-tooltip it looks thinner.
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Comment 6•3 years ago
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The regressing bug was backed out.
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Comment 7•3 years ago
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Hello,
I cant seem to reproduce this issue on Windows 10 with Fx 92.0a1 (BuildId: 20210729172617).
For what its worth I cant see the bug either on 92.0b3. @aminomancer can you please check and see if the issues that you saw are now fixed in the latest beta(https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/92.0b3-candidates/build1/) ?
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Comment 8•3 years ago
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As far as I know the issue was only present for a couple nightly builds. I don't know how it could have made its way into a beta build. For what it's worth, I haven't seen the bug since I made my last comment. And a couple days thereafter, I updated, and the inconsistency in the tab tooltip was gone as well.
So as far as I know this issue is fully resolved. I think there might be a separate but possibly related bug where, when webrender is enabled, text anti-aliasing looks janky inside tree frames. It does look slightly thinner but not like this grayscale AA. Mostly it just looks a bit jagged on the lower edges of a character, especially curves. I've been told it's because trees use webrender fallback but I don't know the details.
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