536816 - Gnome fonts are not honored

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Andrea Campolonghi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); it; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); it; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 Firefox/3.5.6

From 3.5 the fonts ( and settings ) defined by gnome are not respected by Firefox. This happens especially for anialiasing and happens in pages contents as in menu texts.
This is a very important issue to be solved.
Is not iammginable that at this point of Linux and Firefox development still exists issues like that.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Stanislav Schnelly]

I can confirm that. Firefox 3.5.7 and 3.6.2pre2 (on Ubuntu 9.10, if it matters).

I can add screeshot, if needed.

Comment 2

[David Dahl :ddahl]

please add a screenshot. thanks.

Comment 3

[Stanislav Schnelly]

Attachment: Different font rendering in Gnome and Firefox

Here it is. Looks like Firefox is always using "Subpixel smoothing" while Gnome is using "Best contrast".

I hope it's clearly visible on the screenshot.

Comment 4

[Stanislav Schnelly]

Attachment: Better example of not respecting system font settings

I've made another screenshot. Smoothing and hinting are turned off now. System fonts are ugly but Firefox is still using some smoothing and hinting.

Comment 5

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing.
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode
http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles

You can also try to reproduce in Firefox 4 Beta 8 or later, there are many improvements in the new version, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html

Comment 6

[Tyler Downer [He/Him]]

No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.