1953363 - Firefox settings page does not use the user's preferred font for websites

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1468216

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Peter Strøiman]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:136.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/136.0

Steps to reproduce:

As writing this, I realise, this may be by design (see the expected result)

I go to the settings page, open advanced fonts settings, and for Latin, I set a new font for both Serif and Sans-serif.

I uncheck "Allow web pages ..." (p.s. you can't select and copy that text)

Actual results:

Browsing web pages respect the new font.

Firefox settings page is unaffected

Expected results:

Firefox settings page should have used the new font.

Maybe by design?

I can see a potential problem in case the user has selected an unreadable font, making it near impossible to get back to a usable state.

An that case an alternate solution: If it is by design because of that case, a solution could be a menu item to reset fonts (if the different supported OS platforms and window managers make this a viable option)

Comment 1

[Peter Strøiman]

Btw, I did quit and restart FF just to be sure it wasn't state that just something staying memory, but open windows were affected immediately.

Comment 2

[Peter Strøiman]

p.s., I only do this temporarily for testing purposes. It would have been nice with a "reset default fonts" button.