309023 - Monospaced (and possibly other) fonts cause buttons in 'Options' to extend off edge off edge of window

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 283697

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Alastair Drong]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8b4) Gecko/20050908 Firefox/1.4

In Windows XP: OS set to 'Windows Classic Style' all fonts (e.g. Active Title
Bar, Inactive Title bar, Message Box, 3D Objects, Menu) set to the 'Courier'
10pt font

All sections are affected, but only 'Content' and 'Downloads' appear to be
affecte functionally.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Navigate: Start -> Control Pannel
1a. Click 'Switch to Classic View' if applicable
2. Double click 'Display'
3. Click 'Appearance' tab.
3a. Under 'Windows and Buttons' set 'Windows Classic style' and click 'Apply' if
applicable
4. click 'Advanced'
5. Click 'Inactive Window' and set 'font' to 'Courier' and 'Size' to '10'
6. Set the same font settings for every place text is shown.
7. Click 'Ok'
8. Click 'Ok'
9. Open Firefox 1.5 Beta 1
10. Navigate: Tools -> Options
Actual Results:  
Text cannot be read, buttons and other GUI interfaces (checkboxes etc) are
positioned off the window rendering them unusable.

Expected Results:  
all sections and options legible and visible.

Comment 1

[Ria Klaassen (not reading all bugmail)]

See Bug 283697.

Comment 2

[Dave Townsend [:mossop]]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 283697 ***