307276 - Firefox incorrectly renders truetype fonts at 96dpi

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Paul Lauria]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050830 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050830 Firefox/1.0+

At 1280x1024 and 96 dots-per-inch the truetype fonts look horrible. Running
slackware current.

Since it is extremely difficult to describe the incorrect look of the fotns I
have attached a screenshot:

http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7346/messeduptext1am.png

This affects only the Linux version of Firefox.

Reproducible: Sometimes

Steps to Reproduce:
Browse a forum using the above font (see screenshot). At random intervals the
font rendering will screw up and get all out of wack, for lack of a better term.


Expected Results:  
The fonts should render correctly.

Comment 1

[Paul Lauria]

Attachment: screenshot of problem

Comment 2

[Paul Lauria]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Created an attachment (id=195073) [edit]
> screenshot of problem
> 

oh man, I just realized what was in my search bar when that photo was taken.

This is a serious issue, folks, please just ignore that part *embarrased*

Comment 3

[Paul Lauria]

Attachment: visualization of problem

a more appropriate version.

Comment 4

[Paul Lauria]

Turned out to be an X issue where it wasnt guessing the right DisplaySize, which
I had to set in xorg.conf