539911 - unchecking "allow pages to choose their own fonts" may result in pages rendered with the wrong font

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Core :: CSS Parsing and Computation, defect)

Description

[mciobanu]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 SUSE/3.5.6-1.1.1 Firefox/3.5.6 GTB6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091201 SUSE/3.5.6-1.1.1 Firefox/3.5.6 GTB6

Most sites are rendered as expected when "allow pages to choose their own fonts" is unchecked, by using whatever font I chose rather than what the site wants. However, port.ro is rendered in a serif font in this case, even if my "override" fonts are both sans-serif, as is the font that the page wants (Tahoma).

While this report is for Linux, the same happens on Windows 7.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open "Preferences" dialog
2. Go to Content / Fonts & Colors; click on "Advanced"
3. Select some sans-serif (e.g. Arial) or monospace (e.g. Courier) fonts in the "Serif", "Sans-serif", and "Monospace" comboboxes
4. Uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts"
5. Press OK twice to close the dialogs
6. Go to port.ro
Actual Results:  
The page is rendered in some serif font that has nothing to do with either the fonts that were chosen in step 3 or the fonts that the page requested.

Expected Results:  
The page should be rendered using the fonts that were selected in step 3

I use the default theme.

Comment 1

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-5, no longer working on Mozilla)]

The font preferences are separate for different regions of the world; I'm guessing you changed your font preferences for "Western" but not for "Central European" in step (3) above; it's the ones for Central European that affect this page.

Comment 2

[mciobanu]

Sorry, David; you're right. I didn't realize that my changes only affected "Western" encoded pages. Now that I changed "Central European" as well, the page looks OK, so this should be closed.