2043586 - World cup medium view layout is affected by longer strings on other locales than en-US

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: New Tab Page, defect)

Description

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop Test Engineering [:csasca]]

Affected versions

• Firefox 151.0.2 (with New Tab Addon version 153.1.20260528.133333 installed)
• Firefox 153.0a1 (2026-05-27/28)

Affected platforms

• macOS 26.5
• Ubuntu 26.04
• Windows 11

Preconditions
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.sportsWidget.enabled true
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.sportsWidget.interaction true
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.sportsWidget.size medium
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.system.sportsWidget.enabled true
browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.widgets.system.enabled true

Have any locale installed other than en-US

Steps to reproduce

1. Reach the sports widget in the new tab page
2. See the Welcome screen on the widget

Expected result

• There are no visual issues of the layout

Actual result

• The strings are longer on locales other than en-US, and the layout is affected by that. "Follow teams" is only visible by scrolling inside the widget

Regression range

• New feature

Additional Notes

• The issue can be seen in the following attachment
• This is reproducible on: DE, FR, RO, ES
• Tried on AR as well, but seems to be partially translated only (context menu items), so the layout is not affected.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

Since nightly and release are affected, beta will likely be affected too.
For more information, please visit BugBot documentation.

Comment 2

[Irene Ni [:ini]]

Attachment: Bug 2043586 - Only show New Tab sports widget lede copy when size is large. r=maxx

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/f4cce96546a0
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/0d9d435e9145
Only show New Tab sports widget lede copy when size is large. r=maxx

Comment 4

[Serban Stanca [:SerbanS]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/0d9d435e9145

Comment 5

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

The patch landed in nightly and beta is affected.
:ini, is this bug important enough to require an uplift?

• If yes, please nominate the patch for beta approval.
  • See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Requesting_an_Uplift for documentation on how to request an uplift.
• If no, please set status-firefox152 to wontfix.

For more information, please visit BugBot documentation.

Comment 6

[Donal Meehan [:dmeehan]]

This will train hop

Comment 7

[Gabi Cheta [:Gabi] Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed in Firefox 153.0a1 and 151.0.3 train hop v153.3.20260605.21338 across platforms.