273646 - Text does not appear in frame

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ted McCune]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1
Build Identifier: http://download.mozilla.org/?product=thunderbird&os=linux&lang=en-US

Running FireFox 1.0 on Slackware 10.0, there is no text displayed in frames on
some websites. The links in those frames work, but the text is invisible.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open FireFox
2. Navigate to a website containing a frame with text and links
3. Scroll through the site

Actual Results:  
A gray box appears at the top of the page with no text appearing in it. There
are colored underlines where links should be. These links work, but there is no
visible text to inform the user what link to click. Below this, the rest of the
page displays no text, only occasional colored lines.

Expected Results:  
The user is presented with text describing the links needed to learn about
printing and to download the proper PPDs.


This also occurs with the version of Mozilla that comes with Slackware.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

The parts of the page that I think you're talking about are enclosed in <font
face="ms sans serif, helvetica">...</font>. Leaving aside the question of why
_linux_printing.com goes out of its way to specify MS Sans Serif, should that
selection of fonts pose a problem on your system?

Comment 2

[Ted McCune]

After selecting custom fonts and then choosing to "Use My fonts" the pages
described in this bug report display properly.

Steps:

1. Click Edit/Preferencs/Fonts&Colors
2. Select fonts to use
3. Click "Always Use: My Fonts"

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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