347557 - REQ: Change to Font Settings Behavior

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Settings UI, enhancement)

Description

[David Miller]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060805 BonEcho/2.0b1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1b1) Gecko/20060805 BonEcho/2.0b1

Currently, any new users attempting to try FireFox (who wish to change their fonts) will need to set the fonts in the Advanced section of Tools -> Options -> Content.  Simply changing the font there does not apply because by default, FireFox has the Advanced option of "Allow pages to choose their own font instead of the ones I listed above.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
* Change your font setting to Comic Sans MS
* Click "OK"
Actual Results:  
The font setting is not applied until the Advanced option is unticked.

Expected Results:  
The end-user should be able to change the font straight from the userprefs menu for Content.

I am not even sure if this is intended behavior because I've never actually attempted to do this before.  I just feel the userprefs dialog for Content is a bit deceptive because it cannot actually change the font settings until the option through "Advanced" is unticked.  Having this option under content or negating it somehow would make it easier for people to customize the font the browser uses.

Comment 1

[Jackie Liu]

Yes, I agree.  I think the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" should be placed right under content

OR

There should be no direct font changing drop boxes in the content menu, but there should be some yada yada, then following should be a button that says "settings" which leads to a window where users can change all things fonts in one place.

However, I don't think the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" should be removed.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

This is now part of the same window.  WFM.