444921 - Some characters improperly rendered in UI menus after FF 3.0 upgrade

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 439730

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[Ian Graham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008052906 Firefox/3.0

After upgrading to FF 3.0 I am finding a variety of menus are displaying 'black boxes' instead of expected characters (e.g. in place of long dashes, in place of characters denoting a menu item longer than the available menu box width, and sometimes just at the end of a menu label, for no obvious reason).  This shows up in drop-down menus, browser tabs, the Options --> Network control panel, etc. (Can't believe I am the first to report this, but cannot find an earlier report).

I do not see this problem in any other app I am running, including TB 2.0.0.14, and did not see it prior to the FF 3.0 upgrade.  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start browser and view menus - note character rending errors in some cases.  



Expected Results:  
All menu characters should be correctly rendered. 

I am running XP, with Service Pack 3 recently (last week) installed.
Installed and active FF extensions are: 
Forecastfox 0.9.7.6
IE View 1.3.7
Link Widgets 1.6
Live HTTP Headers 0.14
ChatZilla 0.9.83
FireFTP 1.0  
Resurrect Pages 2.0.2 (updated as part of the FF 3.0 upgrade)

Comment 1

[Ian Graham]

Attachment: screen captures of example character rendering errors

Zip file contains for PNG examples: two drop down menus, the options panel, and browser tabs.

Comment 2

[Kai Liu]

See bug 439730 comment 4