1902936 - Thunderbird Flatpak has pixelated / non anti-aliased fonts in some emails

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Thunderbird :: Message Reader UI, defect)

Description

[daj3952g]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:126.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/126.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Install Thunderbird Flatpak
2. Connect an account
3. Open a message

Actual results:

The text within the message look pixelated and not antialiased.

It's worth noting that this seems to go away if one navigates to the font settings and disables messages using other fonts, which is interesting.

Expected results:

The fonts should look smooth with antialiasing, much like the rest of the Thunderbird UI

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Is it flatpack specific? (Try the version raw tar.bz2 version from thunderbird.net)
Also, please attach a sample message as .eml

Comment 2

[daj3952g]

The bug is Flatpak specific. I've added two attachments: a sample .eml file, plus a screenshot comparing the raw tar.bz2 version of Thunderbird opening the message to the Flatpak version.

Note: My operating system is openSUSE Tumbleweed, running KDE Plasma 6.0.5 as the desktop environment.

Comment 3

[daj3952g]

Attachment: A sample email

Comment 4

[daj3952g]

Attachment: Comparing the fonts of the Thunderbird tar.bz2 to the Flatpak

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this issue?

Comment 6

[daj3952g]

As far as I can tell, not anymore.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Thanks for the update.