429961 - About window insensitive to font size.

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 427047

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Ed Hume]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042006 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008042006 Minefield/3.0pre

This is a disability access issue.

With a Windows XP system using Large fonts with a Message Box size of 10, the UserAgent is crowded out of the About Window. See attachments for an illustration of how font size makes a difference.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open About window
Actual Results:  
Cannot see the user agent.

Expected Results:  
All of About content should be visible.

Process failure: lack of routine testing of browser elements against larger font sizes. Since the testing is not done routinely, this kind of bug appears routinely.

Generic problem: This and many of the preferences subwindows are not resizable. Resizability (with corner grippers to indicate resizability) would mitigate these issues when they occur.

Comment 1

[Ed Hume]

Attachment: About window, Large fonts, size 10

Comment 2

[Ed Hume]

Attachment: About window, Large fonts, size 8

Comment 3

[Pradeep Kumar]

Attachment: Windows XP Large Font, MSGBOX -10, About Dialog Firefox

In RC Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008051206 Firefox/3.0 the dialog box shows a scrollbar for large fonts msgbox size 10.

Comment 4

[[:Aleksej]]

Marking duplicate of a Linux bug — I hope that’s OK; but note, that, on Linux GTK, dialogs in Firefox are always resizable.