287454 - All the letters overlapped together, totally messed up and unreadable.

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[morris tang]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050223 Firefox/1.0.1

text in some part of the webpage jammed together and overlapped. this is not a
specific page that showed such problems. i've encountered numerous unreadable
webpages from different websites with the same messy problem. wonder why this
problem seems never to be addressed. have thought the firefox newer version
would have correct it, but never so far. the problem is just like part of the
text i am typing now overlapping the text i typed before with a partially
shifted spaces and mixed up with each other and made it totally unreadable.
this is the reason and one of the major issues that i once delete the firefox
browser and decided not to use it. the other problem is its compatiality with so
many websites and their search engines. for example, www.tempo.socalmls.com, a
real estate listing search website for southern californian real estate brokers
to do the search. it only supports the terrible microsoft's internet explorer,
once you tried to use firefox browser, the whole format simply not right, and
all the functions on that website's page and their search engine simply won't
work! i love firefox, it's smart and fast, simply fantastic! it's almost
everything that i want a browser to be and should be, but the text mixup
sometimes are too mind-boggling to be overlooked. i'll keep sending you webpages
that got such problems. tkx for reading a layman's lament. morris

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
1.reduce the characters view sizes
2.many times
3.enlarge it

Actual Results:  
still the same. certain part of the text(including pictures) just mixed/covered
up by the text and became unreadable at all.

Expected Results:  
are there certain directX problems? graphic support? different writing format?
compatialities?

Comment 1

[Steve England [:stevee]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050330
Firefox/1.0+
I see the text all overlapping too, but as far as I can tell this isn't
firefox's fault, it's down to the person who wrote the HTML for the item.
-> INVALID?
-> EVANGALISM?

Comment 2

[Ben Fowler]

Attachment: Testcase

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050330
Firefox/1.0+

It is not clear to me that there is no bug here. The visual appearance seems
to be due to the typography not fitting into the 55 px sized <div>s, but I 
am not sure that one of the many <table>s should not have <td>s that should
fix this.

You can make the text not overlap by reducing the text size.

I enclose a slightly smaller testcase which still has the problem.

Comment 3

[rcbranuelas]

Attachment: JPEG of unreadable cookies list

I cant read the list of cookies or in some cases, bookmarks whenever there is a
list.

Comment 4

[Ben Fowler]

(In reply to comment #3)
> Created an attachment (id=180904) [edit]
> JPEG of unreadable cookies list
> 
> I cant read the list of cookies or in some cases, bookmarks whenever there is a
> list.

I would venture that this is not part of this bug report. I suggest that you
ensure that you have confirmed the bug in a recent build with a fresh profile,
and submit as a new bug.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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