291327 - Graphics and text formatting are off. Sometimes appear under or over other objects.

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ryan Daly]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Red Hat/1.0.3-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050416 Red Hat/1.0.3-1.4.1 Firefox/1.0.3

If you visit any of the above pages with Internet Explorer, the pages display
properly.  Visiting them with Firefox, you'll see that the pages are displayed
with the formatting a bit off.

For example, on http://www.accuweather.com, the words "Canada | UK & Ireland |
World" appear below the "National Overview" graphic.  With IE, they are spaced
properly and you see the complete word(s).

On http://home.netscape.com, the scrolling items just under the "Breaking" news
appear too high.  The scrolling items themselves sometimes overwrite the number
selection in the lower right corner.  Again, with IE, the spacing is correct.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit http://www.accuweather.com or http://home.netscape.com
Actual Results:  
Images are displayed a few pixels off and therefore are hidden or partially hide
other items on the same page.

Expected Results:  
Spacing should be correct.

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Attachment: Screenshot from Mozilla 20050414 and IE6

Reporter:
Can you show me please the difference between IE and a current Mozilal trunk
build  on this screenshot ?

Comment 2

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050421
Firefox/1.0+

IE6

WFM, they look the same

Comment 3

[Ryan Daly]

Attachment: Screenshot of Firefox on RHEL 4 WS desktop.

Here's the screenshot.	Thanks.

Comment 4

[José Jeria]

WFM: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050421
Firefox/1.0+

Comment 5

[Ryan Daly]

I just discovered that if I change font sizes (ctrl--, ctrl-+) that the fonts
change behind the images that are overlapping the text.  It doesn't look like
resizing the fonts takes certain features of the page into account and therefore
sometimes falls behind the image(s).

Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 7

[Ryan Daly]

I'm still seeing the same problems with the text not being aligned...

Comment 8

[José Jeria]

Can you please retest with Firefox 1.5 beta 1 and see if this is still an issue?
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/firefox/

Comment 9

[craig harmer]

Attachment: screenshot of overlapping text with FireFox

screenshot of overlapping text in Firefox viewing http://finance.yahoo.com
using the default text size.

Comment 10

[craig harmer]

Attachment: screenshot of overlapping text with Firefox

another screenshot of overlapping text at http://finance.yahoo.com.  the text
is two sizes smaller than the default size (using Ctrl--) so the overlap is
different than the previous attachment.  this is Firefox 1.5 beta 1 (despite
what the text from Help->About Mozilla Firefox shows):

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

Comment 11

[craig harmer]

(In reply to comment #10)
> Created an attachment (id=200151) [edit]
> screenshot of overlapping text
> 
> another screenshot of overlapping text at http://finance.yahoo.com.  the text
> is two sizes smaller than the default size (using Ctrl--) so the overlap is
> different than the previous attachment.  this is Firefox 1.5 beta 1 (despite
> what the text from Help->About Mozilla Firefox shows):
> 
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

i've attached two screenshots of the problem using Firefox 1.5 beta 1. i also
see identical overlaps using SeaMonkey build 2005092404.

this problem was not evident in the earlier Mozilla 1.8b2 build 20050702,
apparently because it used different default fonts.  if i shrink the text size
the problem appears with that browser as well:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050702

i sure wish i could get back to the default fonts used in that version of the
browser.

Comment 12

[Ryan Daly]

I've seen this bug in Opera, too.  Maybe this isn't Firefox specific, but a more general Linux font bug?  That's totally out of my arena, so I'm only guessing.

Comment 13

[Amber Thompson]

 Graphics are not being shown, and can only be seen by highlighting the entire page. I am using WIN98.

Comment 14

[Ryan Daly]

Attachment: Another site that is displaying severely incorrect.

Another image of a site that's not displaying correctly.

Comment 15

[Ryan Daly]

Attachment: The same site displayed correctly in IE.

The site displayed correctly in IE.

Comment 16

[Ryan Daly]

Attachment: SeaMonkey affected, too.

Same thing is occurring in SeaMonkey.

Version information follows:
SeaMonkey 1.1.1
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070221 SeaMonkey/1.1.1

Comment 17

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Ryan, can you please try this in Firefox 2.0.0.3 or later with a new profile? I think something in your profile might be causing this problem.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_Manager

Comment 18

[Ryan Daly]

Attachment: Image of FireFox 2.0.0.3 with error in display...

I'm still seeing the same thing.  I started this as a totally separate user with no existing profile.

Could there be something else in my environment that's causing this to happen?

Comment 19

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Ryan, I see that as well, but that seems to be specific to yahoo.com and should be filed with them. That's not what this bug was originally about though. Are you seeing the major layout/graphics issues that you originally reported?

Comment 20

[Ryan Daly]

Attachment: Correctly displayed page in IE.

This is an image of the original site I filed the bug under when viewed thru IE.

Comment 21

[Ryan Daly]

Attachment: Incorrectly displayed page in Firefox.

This is an image of the original site I filed the bug under when viewed thru Firefox.

Comment 22

[Ryan Daly]

The Yahoo! page displays properly w/ IE...  But, it also displays properly with Firefox on Windows.  (I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.2 on Windows XP.)

Could this be somehow a symptom of something else native to Linux?  I have no idea what, but this seems to be only happening w/ Firefox on Linux.

Comment 23

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Ah, so, that looks like a font problem. Presumably you don't have either Arial or Helvetica on your machine and the font it's default to after that isn't of a similar size. Does that ring true on your end?

(That also explains why I saw that problem on yahoo.com, given that the machine I tested on was missing the font it requested, but on Mac/Windows, it worked fine.)

Comment 24

[Ryan Daly]

I'm not sure how to check what fonts I have installed...  I gather that could be the issue, but not 100%.

Can you direct me how to get that information and possibly how to correct the issue?

Comment 25

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

To get a full list of fonts installed, type "fc-list" in a terminal. That'll provide a full list of fonts installed. If it's true that you don't have those fonts installed, this bug is technically INVALID.

Comment 26

[Ryan Daly]

Well - I do not have Helvetica installed, but it's not available on my Windows host, either.

Arial is available on my Windows but not on my Linux system.

What Linux font should I force Firefox to use to avoid having this issue?

Comment 27

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

Arial was the first font requested and Helvetica is the fall-back.

I don't know enough about fonts or, specifically, Linux fonts to be able to say. From a quick Google search, I'm thinking you should try http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/

Beyond that, I believe this bug is INVALID. If you agree, please mark it as such.

Comment 28

[Ryan Daly]

You knew enough to point me in the right direction!  Thank-you very much.  I installed the fonts from the site you provided above and checked both yahoo.com and home.netscape.com and found them to be displaying correctly.

Thank-you very much for your help!!!

Comment 29

[Samuel Sidler (old account; do not CC)]

No problem, sorry it took a couple years to get this bug resolved for you.