290716 - Weird letter rendering on certain sites (like sitepoint and vbulletin)

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Sergej Kotliar]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.6) Gecko/20050328 Firefox/1.0.2 Fedora/1.0.2-3

On [for example] page http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=16,
there is some weird rendering of the words "Just Starting your design" in the
top bar of the page. (See red circle in attached file). The letters seem to have
different sizes, and the words become hard to read. Browse around SitePoint to
see that the text in that space is always hard to read due to letter weirdness.

The bug appears in FireFox, but not in Mozilla, hence I have no better place to
file it than here. Please move to wherever it is suited.


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Sergej Kotliar]

Attachment: Shows the problem

The red circle shows where the problem occurs. It's the same across the entire
site and many others.

Comment 2

[Chris Applegate]

I've seen this effect on Wikipedia. It was always intermittent, but I don't
think I've seen it al all for a while. It may be fixed in the nightlies. You can
download the tarball and unpack it in /usr/local or /opt if you want to check.

Comment 3

[Sergej Kotliar]

Checked with nightly, bug is basically the same!

Comment 4

[Nigel McFarlane]

Tested with vanilla Firefox 1.0 on Fedora Core 3:

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

No such problem on the test page with this version. Can you:

a) repeat the original test in case the page has been updated.
b) test on the same box with the official 1.0.2 build from Mozilla.

- N.

Comment 5

[Sergej Kotliar]

It seems to only appear sometimes, and sometimes not... I don't know what causes
it...
Yes, it's still here.
Why do you want me to test the official 1.0.2 build? Isn't 1.0.3 better? Or even
nightly? Cause I did try the nightly, and I've had this bug for a while, just
didn't think it hadn't been reported...

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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