Open Bug 436714 Opened 16 years ago Updated 2 months ago

Implement Font finder service

Categories

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, enhancement)

Product:
Core
Component:
Layout: Text and Fonts
Type:
enhancement

Tracking

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Status:
UNCONFIRMED

People

(Reporter: stream, Unassigned)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008053106 Minefield/3.0pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9pre) Gecko/2008053106 Minefield/3.0pre

With the upcoming release of Firefox 3 and the use of OS fonts, I think some users will be surprised when some pages displays strange unreadable characters, because of missing fonts.

I think the browser should at least notify the user that there are missing fonts. It will be even better to prompt the user to install them from somewhere. For example Internet Explorer prompts to install language packs.

Reproducible: Always
Version: unspecified → 3.0 Branch
OS: Windows XP → All
Hardware: PC → All
Version: 3.0 Branch → Trunk
I'm not sure about the "missing font" prompt, but it seems that a font-finder is a job for an extension.
Severity: normal → S3
Severity: S3 → --
Component: General → Layout: Text and Fonts
Product: Firefox → Core
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