378203 - Text rendered improperly when bold or italic faces are specified on a page, also when entering any text in a multiline text input box.

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Rob Mooney]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3

For Firefox on OS X every page that specifies bold or italic or any other text ornamentations, Firefox always distorts the text so that characters overlap with the basic text. Also while inputting text at a site (www.gmail.com is the worst site I've found), Firefox renders the text awfully, preventing reading of what has written. This is sometimes solved by pressing the return key, but will become a problem when more text is entered. 

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to www.gmail.com
2. Compose a new email
3. Begin entering text, refrain from pressing the return key until the text is jumbled.

OR: Go to any page with bold, italic or any other text ornamentation.
Actual Results:  
Text becomes jumbled making any editting impossible without a severe amount of guess work.

Expected Results:  
Text should render smoothly.

The paragraph below this text input includes lots of bold text, it is rendered i

Comment 1

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

This is a mass search for bugs that are in the Firefox General component, are UNCO, and have not been changed for 1000 days and have an unspecified version. 

Reporter, can you please update to Firefox 3.6.10, create a fresh profile, http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/managing+profiles, and test again. If you still see the bug, please update this bug. If the issue is gone, please set the resolution to RESOLVED > WORKSFORME.

Comment 2

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply from reporter, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.12 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.