29729 - changing font size prefs horks spacing near links

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 24343

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect, P3)

Description

[meiering]

I've noticed this bug on all the M14 builds for the last few weeks and now the
M15 builds (2/28). When the font size is changed using the fonts pref dialog to
a smaller size (I use 12pt for both) the display is horked, but only near links.

Steps to reproduce on Mac OS9.

1. Go to http://mozilla.org
2. Open font prefs dialog and change both monospace and serif to a smaller size,
say 12pt.
3. Close the dialog.
4. Page reflows, but now there is extra space around many links and to the right
of some links there will be blank space which is now underlined like a link.
5. Reloading doesn't remedy the problem.

I thought this was related to bug 24343, but I found a way to fix the problem
and it doesn't sound like 24343.

Temporary fix.

1. Quit Mozilla
2. Open prefs.js in BBedit.
3. Delete the following prefs.
user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", ".keyboard");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", ".keyboard");
4. Leave the following prefs
user_pref("font.size.fixed.x-western", 12);
user_pref("font.size.variable.x-western", 12);
5. Save changes to prefs.js
6. Launch mozilla and bingo the font size is smaller and all the spacing is correct.

I noticed that when you change the font size pref, the
user_pref("font.name.monospace.x-western", ".keyboard");
user_pref("font.name.serif.x-western", ".keyboard");
prefs are added as well. If you change these to your favorite mono and serif
font the problem still exists. Only removing them completely seems to help.

Comment 1

[Richard Zach]

Bug 24343 was fixed.  meiering@cs, could you check a new nightly build and see
if it's all better now? If so, you can mark this a duplicate of 24343.

Comment 2

[meiering]

[e-mail], tried in 0317Macn1b1 build. 

Changing font size still causes a garbled display, but this can be fixed by 
reloading the page. After dismissing the prefs window, the page does _not_ 
reflow. This may be a dup of 24343, but if so, then on Mac builds, 24343 isn't 
fix

Comment 3

[Richard Zach]

troy, can you look at this?  It looks like its the same as bug 24343, but
apparently it's still broken on the Mac.

Comment 4

[troy]

I don't know why it should work fine on Windows and Linux but not work on the 
Mac. However, I have no way to debug Mac specific problems, so I'm reassigning 
to Don.

Don, let me know what you see when you try this on the Mac, and I'll help try 
and diagnose the problem

Comment 5

[Pierre Saslawsky]

This is a dup of bug 24243. The problem is that <meiering> was using a 
0317Macn1b1 build and the fix for 24243 did not make it on the beta branch (it 
was marked PDT-). I confirm that the bug is fixed on the trunk.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24243 ***

Comment 6

[Pierre Saslawsky]

Shoot! Reopening: that was not 24243 but 24343...

Comment 7

[Pierre Saslawsky]

24343 I said


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24343 ***

Comment 8

[Zach Lipton [:zach]]

Marking verified.