266383 - The Address Location field font face and dropdown list looks compressed

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Will Cosgrove]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041026 Firefox/1.0RC1

The address location field in the toolbar, where you type http://www.apple.com,
and it's dropdown autocomplete list font looks compressed horizontally and
almost like it's not using the system font (Lucida Grande) or something else odd
is going on here.  It clearly doesn't look right when compared to other
applications that use the system font.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch Firefox
2.Type in an address in the address field, namely a long address
Actual Results:  
The string looks like it's compressed horizontally when compared to other
applications on the system.  The search field also compresses the text in the
same way.  Could be because it's not using the correct system font.  The
bookmarks toolbar font face looks like it's using the correct system font for
example.

Expected Results:  
Firefox should render the address bar font using the correct system font and
spacing, etc.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Reporter, a screenshot might be helpful here.

Comment 2

[Will Cosgrove]

Attachment: screenshot of compressed address field text

This shows how the font face/characters are being compressed compared to the
system font's default character spacing.  I've taken a screenshot of Firefox's
address field and put that text into TextEdit with 12pt Lucida Grande font
selected, you can see that it's noticeably shorter in Firefox's address field
than what it should be to look correct compared to the system font.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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