1906348 - google.com News search on Firefox for Android: news titles contain extra linebreaks

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Web Compatibility :: Site Reports, defect, P2)

Description

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Attachment: screenshot

This was originally reported in https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1dukx2t/another_reason_why_google_is_evil/ and I can reproduce it.

Steps to reproduce:

1. In Firefox Nightly for Android, do a google search for the string "android".
2. Switch to the "News" tab.

Expected results:
The titles of the news in the top list should have reasonable line breaks.

Actual results:
In each result, there's a line break after the first word and second word of the title.

Chrome:

You could get a cut of Google's
$700 million lawsuit payout if you
own an Android

Firefox:

You
could
get a cut of Google's $700 milli...

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Looking at the DOM of the page in the devtools inspector, there is a <br> after "You" and after "could".

Comment 1

[Markus Stange [:mstange]]

Attachment: devtools inspector screenshot

Comment 2

[Ksenia Berezina [:ksenia]]

Add a ni for Dennis to reach out to Google

Comment 3

[Dennis Schubert [:denschub]]

These <br> tags aren't there in Chrome, so this isn't a rendering difference or anything. I've reached out to them.

Comment 4

[Thomas Wisniewski [:twisniewski]]

It doesn't look like we need to do any diagnosis here, so removing that flag for now.

Comment 6

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

As one additional data-point: you can see this bug reproducing in the Firefox screenshots on https://github.com/webcompat/web-bugs/issues/141292 (though that particular github issue was focused on something else -- an unexpected left-vs-right ordering of text & images that the reporter was seeing -- and that issue was closed because that part wasn't reproducible).

Comment 7

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

(In reply to Dennis Schubert [:denschub][OOO - back Jan 7th] from comment #3)

I've reached out to them.

I'm not sure we ever heard back from this outreach, so I followed up on the email thread today.

Comment 8

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

The severity field for this bug is set to S4. However, the following bug duplicate has higher severity:

• Bug 1938058: S3

:ksenia, could you consider increasing the severity of this bug to S3?

For more information, please visit BugBot documentation.

Comment 10

[Hsin-Yi Tsai (she/her) | away [:hsinyi]]

As chatted in the webcompat channel, I am removing the keyword from webcompat:site-wait. Keeping webcompat:contact-in-progress should be enough.

Comment 11

[Rick Byers]

I have filed b/467804205 to track this within Google.

Comment 12

[Nick Coury]

We believe we've identified the root cause and will be deploying a fix soon.

Comment 13

[Nick Coury]

This should now be fixed, please verify on your end and let us know if you still see any issues.

Comment 14

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Yes, this looks fixed on my end. Thank you!

Comment 15

[Calin Tanase]

Verified, the issue no longer reproduces.

Tested with:

• Browser / Version: Fenix 147.0-candidate build 1
• Operating System: Google Pixel 5 (Android 14)