Text spaced out
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(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)
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(Reporter: austin, Unassigned)
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Screenshot from 2022-03-26 17-42-31.png
Steps to reproduce:
Open Firefox Nightly or Developer Edition installed from Pacman.
Actual results:
Text in some webpages and all Firefox menus is strangely spaced. In some cases important information is just not visible, for example I can't create a Bugzilla account in Firefox right now.
Expected results:
Should have normal spacing between words, as I do in Brave or Firefox on the same system, or even in Firefox Nightly from nixpkgs as the same system.
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Comment 1•4 years ago
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I didn't manage to reproduce this issue on the latest versions Nightly 101.0a1 and Firefox 99.01.
To eliminate custom settings as a possible cause, could you please retest this using Firefox in Troubleshoot Mode and with a new profile?
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode
http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles
Yes I tried those. I also ran rm -rf ~/.mozilla. Same issue.
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Comment 3•4 years ago
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austinabutler, thanks for your input.
Could you please use the attach button to attach a txt file with a copy of the data from the about:support page, so we can see which add-ons and settings are in use?
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Comment 5•4 years ago
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Unfortunately I don't have the possibility to test this on Archlinux. Nonetheless I tested on Ubuntu 20, but this issue is not reproducible there on the latest Nightly 101.0a1 and Firefox 99.
Setting the component to have the developer's opinion about it.
If this is not the correct component, please feel free to change it to a more appropriate one.
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Comment 6•4 years ago
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This is probably the result of a bad fontconfig setup related to an emoji font in the pacman environment. See discussion in bug 1759667.
Yep that was it! Thanks, this was such a pain to troubleshoot, and since Firefox was the only browser affected, and only certain versions, I figured it was a Firefox thing. Guessing Chrome just ignores the bad config or something.
Anyways in case anyone comes across this and wants working color emojis, after deleting /etc/fonts/local.conf I followed the Blobmoji installation guide and now Firefox isn't broken and I see my beloved blobs at https://getemoji.com/.
My ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf for reference:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<alias>
<family>serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Blobmoji</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>sans-serif</family>
<prefer>
<family>Blobmoji</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
<alias>
<family>monospace</family>
<prefer>
<family>Blobmoji</family>
</prefer>
</alias>
</fontconfig>
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