401371 - [10.5] Text not being rendered correctly in Leopard

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andre-John Mas]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8

Visiting the page:

   http://forums.cocoaforge.com/index.php?c=2

The section names and forum names are not being rendered. This was working prior to the upgrade. This is rendered correctly in Safari.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Visit page: http://forums.cocoaforge.com/index.php?c=2
2. Look at missing forum names
3. Compare with Safari
Actual Results:  
The text is not rendered. Trying to select where the text is meant to be shows a link is there, but its as if the name where just made up of space characters.

Expected Results:  
To have the text display properly.

Using MacOS X 10.5 - offical release, Firefox 2.0.0.8

Comment 1

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

I am not able to see the issue using the 2009 candidate Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/2007102514 Firefox/2.0.0.9 and comparing to Safari on Mac OS X 10.5 (9A581). Can you kindly attach a screenshot?

Comment 2

[Michael Mullin]

Checked out trunk from cvs, problem does not reproduce on it either.

Comment 3

[Andre-John Mas]

Attachment: Screenshot illustrating issue

Comment 4

[Andre-John Mas]

I decided to try launching Firefox in a new account, on the same computer. In this case Firefox did not exhibit this issue, suggesting that this may be a configuration issue. Will investigate.

Comment 5

[Andre-John Mas]

After some trial and error, it would appear that the issue was font related. I displaced the fonts in the ~/Library/Fonts folder and restarted Firefox and the issue was no longer present. Replacing the fonts and then relaunching Firefox and the issue was still no longer present.

Maybe a font cache issue?

Comment 6

[Andre-John Mas]

The problem started up again. I am suspecting it has to do with the new 'Microsoft C fonts'* ( see http://www.hunlock.com/blogs/Downloading_and_Using_Vista_Web_Fonts for details) I installed, since removing them seems to cure the problem.

Comment 7

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Andre-John: Is is OK then based on Comment 6 to resolve this as works for me?

Comment 8

[Andre-John Mas]

Without the fonts this can be marked as 'works for me', though it is unclear the issue is with Gecko, MacOS X or the Fonts.

It would be nice to find out if other people could reproduce the issue in the same conditions and if they can, indicate that there is a compatibility issue. Otherwise we can ignore this bug.

Comment 9

[u88484]

This bug was reported using a version of Firefox that security and stability updates are no longer provided for.  All users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to Firefox 3 by selecting 'Check for Updates' in the Help menu or by going to http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/firefox.html

If you can no longer reproduce this bug using the latest Firefox 3.0.x version, please change the status of this bug to 'RESOLVED' 'WORKSFORME'.

If you can still reproduce this bug, please provide additional details to help resolve this issue.

Comment 10

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please reply if you can still reproduce this bug with Firefox 3.5.3 or later in a new profile with the latest plugins (flash, quicktime, java, etc.).

Comment 11

[Andre-John Mas]

I no longer have access to that browser and since 3.5.x is the current release, where this issue does not appear to be present, I will now mark it as WORKSFORME.