284792 - Font abnormally small, used with code tag (sometimes)

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Layout, defect)

Description

[Zeno-McDohl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
Build Identifier: 

The font on this webpage is abnormally small with Firefox, but is fine with 
any other browser. Sometimes if the page is refreshed enough, it'll return to 
normal once. The code used for the HTML is this:
<font size="-1"><table width="100%"><tr><td><font size=2><pre><code><font 
size=2>Wed Mar  2 15:29:16 PST 2005

But as I said, only Firefox has the problem. This is how it looks on Firefox:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v123/rebirthseph/gamfirefox.jpg

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox
2. Go to http://www.gammon.com.au
3. View any post with a code tag used

Actual Results:  
It displayed the text in a small font, almost unreadable.

Expected Results:  
Displayed it in normal font.

Tried with many different computers and Firefox versions. All have the problem.

Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

Both <pre> and <code> cause the use of monospace fonts. The default monospace
font in FF is 3 or 4 sizes smaller than for proportional. To these smaller fonts
is applied <font size=2> which makes them smaller still.

Go into your options for fonts and either make the size bigger, and/or choose a
font family for monospace that renders larger, such as Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
(a free download font).

Comment 2

[Zeno-McDohl]

Yes but it'll randomly change, sometimes back to normal font, and most of the
time, this small font.
"The bug isn't so much the funny display, but the inconsistent display and how
it changes after refresh etc."

Comment 3

[Nickolay_Ponomarev]

Please attach the page that causes problems here, and try to make as small
testcase as possible.

When I loaded the page first time, everything was ok, but after a load, the text
was indeed smaller.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050319
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 4

[Zeno-McDohl]

Attachment: As requested, this page is a testcase

Comment 5

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Comment 6

[Jonathan]

Testcase WFM, I think

Not as big a difference in size as can be seen in the Photobucket-screenshot