279781 - new installation (zip) changes font in profile

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050125 Firefox/1.0+

repro:
1. Remove old FF programm files (leave profile alone)
2. Unzip ne build and start FF
3. In Options - General - Fonts and Color the proportional font was changed from
my default setting Sans Serif to Serif

Reproduced this on 3 win2k computers

exp:
Don't change my font settings

This has regressed in the past week (most builds were unusable due to crashing).

Comment 1

[James Norris]

I'm seeing this also on XP, Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB;
rv:1.8b) Gecko/20050124 Firefox/1.0+

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

I had an old profile somewhere and noted:

user_pref("font.default", "sans-serif");
with a new pref added in the latest builds
user_pref("font.default.x-western", "sans-serif");

should the bugdescription change to:
make font.default.x-western inherit the value from font.default in case of an
existing profile or is this bug simply INVA ?

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

this is fallout from bug 95227, not sure if/how we'd want to take a stab at
migrating this stuff.

Comment 4

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

I haven't seen this in ages, can we close the this bug ?

Comment 5

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change

Comment 6

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

(In reply to Peter van der Woude [:Peter6] from comment #4)
> I haven't seen this in ages, can we close the this bug ?


I guess we can