Closed Bug 26077 Opened 26 years ago Closed 26 years ago

Location bar starts using HTML font when prefs change

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P2)

Product:
SeaMonkey
Component:
UI Design
Type:
defect

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
VERIFIED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: shrir, Assigned: radha)

References

Details

(Whiteboard: [nsbeta2+] [PDT-])

Used today's commercial build on windows (2000020108). 1. Install and launch the browser 2. Select menu option Edit->Preferences->Navigator 3. In the pane titled 'Home Page', set a home page in the 'Location" textfield. 4. Press OK button to close the Prefs window. 5. Observe that the font size of text in Location Box has grown bigger.
this is interesting...when i first tried to change the default homepage, the fontsize in the Location bar didn't change...but after the 2nd attempt, the fontsize *shrank* to a barely legible level! [same bits used on winNT.]
Ugh.
Priority: P3 → P2
Target Milestone: M14
This is weird. Hopefully my fonts bug fix will fix this problem.
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
This is heinous. Nominating for "beta1" blocker.
Keywords: beta1
Putting on PDT+ radar for beta1.
Whiteboard: [PDT+]
I see it on Linux commercial build for today(2000020408). Marking Platform and OS as ALL.
OS: Windows NT → All
Hardware: PC → All
Summary: Resetting Home Page makes text in Location bar bigger → [PP]Resetting Home Page makes text in Location bar bigger
Anecdotal evidence that may not be useful at all, but I've seen this in other instances than the setting of the home page.
Blocks: 27110
No longer blocks: 27110
This is do to the fonts size was not getting set. Now that is fixed. No longer a ptd since it won't happen unless you change the font size to really big and then that is what you where asking for anyways. Should we resize the URL bar to be really big?
Whiteboard: [PDT+]
Marking minus based on matt's comments
Whiteboard: [PDT-]
Keywords: pp
Summary: [PP]Resetting Home Page makes text in Location bar bigger → Resetting Home Page makes text in Location bar bigger
Bulk move of all Pref UI component bugs to new Preferences component. Pref UI component will be deleted.
Component: Pref UI → Preferences
I have steps to recreate this problem on windows and linux (today's builds) 1. Click mouse in Location Box 2. Select Edit->Preferences->Nvigator 3. Reset home page 4. Click OK 5. Observe that text has become bigger in size.
Cannot reproduce this using shrir's steps given on WinNT 4 SP 6a on PII (nightly of 6th. Mar, 00). However, managed to crash the browser trying repeatedly to reproduce this, probably because of bug 30638 . Can anyone verify (and hopefully close) this ?
*** Bug 29461 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I see this problem. Now I don't have to reset the home page at all. Just clicking in the locationbox makes the text in the field grow in size. See it on linux trunk build for today. (03/17)
I don't see this anymore
Status: ASSIGNED → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
I see this all the time. Today's build (2000040616 i686-pc-linux-gnu) has the bug. If you change a preference, then close preferences, the location bar font is enormous. Close mozilla and start it again, and the font size returns to normal. There are dozens of bugs that are related, but all of them are marked as closed, fixed, WFM, whatever. So I pick this one because its subject is most closely related :)
i cannot seem to repro this using either the mozilla or commercial bits [optimized bits, 2000.04.07.09]. am running RH linux, with enlightement (wm) on gnome. shrir, d'you see this anymore?
Hrmm. I can't consistently get the bug to surface by changing the home page, but I can easily do it every time this way: 1: Start Mozilla 2: Edit->preferences 3: Fonts 4: Change fonts to 24 points 5: OK 6: Type in location bar Result, the font in the location bar becomes the size that you specified in the font preferences, which is of course 3x taller than the actual location bar itself. In addition, the background of the location bar becomes grey. Opening a new window or restarting moz fixes the problem. Is this a different bug?
I see this problem with the font setting that jwbaker mentioned above. Yes..it is still there. The locationbox text grows way too big after I click in it.
resetting the summary
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
Summary: Resetting Home Page makes text in Location bar bigger → Changing font size in Prefs makes text in Location bar bigger
M14 is long gone. clearing target milestone
Target Milestone: M14 → ---
pardon the spam: beta1 is long gone...removing this keyword. will soon replace w/nsbeta2...
Keywords: beta1
nominating for beta2. if this cannot be fixed by then, pls add appropriate target milestone. thx.
Assignee: matt → don
Status: REOPENED → NEW
Keywords: nsbeta2
Putting on [NEED INFO]..I can't even get a font size change to stick..you?
Whiteboard: [PDT-] → [NEED INFO][PDT-]
shrir/claudius, do either of you see this still?
btw, i haven't seen this recently... have other people?
I can reproduce on 2000-05-09 Linux builds.
It seems somewhat hard to reproduce, but on one instance I could still reproduce this( on windows). Now, the Prefs->Fonts menu looks shabby (pull-down menus appearing as lines and no selected values displaying). But I still see this. It is easy to til see this on linux build. Just change the font size and variable width font and press OK.
Reassigning as per Don.
Assignee: don → radha
Target Milestone: --- → M17
Still occurs with May12 builds. Putting on [nsbeta2+] radar for beta2 fix.
Whiteboard: [NEED INFO][PDT-] → [nsbeta2+] [PDT-]
*** Bug 39940 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I think Matt is correct, fonts come up uninitialized from prefs, so it's some small default size. Make any change, the pref gets read, the resulting font size happens to be much larger than the small default. Try this: start mozilla open font pref panel, remember what size is there, "size A" set font to some other size, "size B" RESET font back to "size A", you'll find it wasn't as small as the first time you started mozilla Resummarizing, last summary was misleading I think.
Summary: Changing font size in Prefs makes text in Location bar bigger → Font size not read from prefs on startup
*** Bug 40281 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 40319 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Move to M18 target milestone.
Target Milestone: M17 → M18
Font prefs are getting read on startup, I just checked. The problem here is that the location bar shouldn't be reading the font prefs *at all*. The location bar is part of the UI, and content display prefs are none of its business. Resummarizing. This bug makes the location bar practically unusable after using the prefs dialog, because editing, selecting etc behave as if the characters are in the original font; so the caret/selection is in a completely different place from the text it's editing/selecting. Upping to major severity.
Severity: normal → major
Component: Preferences → XPApps
Keywords: pp
Summary: Font size not read from prefs on startup → Location bar starts using HTML font when prefs change
*** Bug 40067 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
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Keywords: mostfreq
Has this been fixed? I didn't see it on build 2000060908, Win32.
Still broken on Linux 2000060908 (M17).
Don is not seeing this using the 7/6 build on linux and I'm not seeing this on Win 98. Marking worksforme
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 26 years ago → 26 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
i haven't seen this recently either...again: do reopen if it crops up!
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
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