274222 - <basefont> tag seems to have no effect in firefox (on xp at least)

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 3875

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Lance Bledsoe]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

In this page at http://www.jrbeck.com/basefontbug.htm the results should be 
self evident. On explorer I get very large red text in Arial font. With firefox 
I get whatever the default styles are for font, size, color, etc.

I have tried moving the basefont tag around a bit and still the same results.  
In firefox defense, Dreamweaver 2004 does not seem preview this properly either.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Load http://www.jrbeck.com/basefontbug.htm with firefox (on xp)
2. Load http://www.jrbeck.com/basefontbug.htm with ie6 (on xp)
3. ogle and ahh at the difference

Actual Results:  
I was stunned that firefox failed the test!

Expected Results:  
Should have done what ie6 did - drawn big red Arial letters.

Comment 1

[Phil Ringnalda (:philor)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 3875 ***