534834 - User Interface uses bold italic fonts

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Menus, defect)

Description

[lu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b4) Gecko/20091124 Firefox/3.6b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2b4) Gecko/20091124 Firefox/3.6b4

User Interface uses a strange typeface: All fonts in the user interface (menue, preferences, search, uri bar…) are bold and italic. I have a lot of non-default fonts installed.

See screen shot here: http://bit.ly/FontUI

FF 3.6 Beta 4 on Mac OS X 10.6.

Reproducible: Always




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Comment 1

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 07/21 - 08/08)]

Does it also happen with a fresh profile (http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles)? Have you ever seen this in Firefox 3.5.x?

Comment 2

[lu]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Does it also happen with a fresh profile
> (http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Managing+profiles)? Have you ever seen
> this in Firefox 3.5.x?

Henrik, it is exactly the same with a fresh profile.

I also realized, that some websites like wikipedia and http://www.ernst-und-sohn.de/ are displayed all in bold type! Screenshot: http://bit.ly/wikipedia-ff


I never hat wrong type in the FF 3.5.x user interface, but also on websites (e.g. all Wikipedia articles are recently displayed in bold italics in FF 3.5, also with a fresh profile).

Comment 3

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+2] (away 07/21 - 08/08)]

For me it looks like there is something wrong with the default font on your system. Please check which font Firefox uses (options dialog) and have a look at the font manually.

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

Try clearing all the font caches (user and system). There are various utilities that can do that (Onyx comes to mind). Or from the command line:
http://www.macworld.com/article/139383/2009/03/fontcacheclear.html
Make sure you restart your Mac after doing so.

Comment 5

[lu]

Fixed!
I cleaned up my systems fonts with linotype fontexplorer.
Now, the FF 3.6b5 interface uses typefaces correctly. Thx, everyone.

(I changed the bug status to invalid)

Comment 6

[Michael Shamoon]

Actually, I (and others, see https://support.mozilla.com/en-US/forum/1/591991 ) have been having this issue since upgrading to 3.6.

There is a fix that involves restarting the font server, but as the issue sometimes comes back, and it never used to happen (eg before 3.6), I believe a bug was introduced somewhere in the 3.6 line and this bug file should be reopened.