Closed Bug 583452 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

With hardware acceleration disabled text in the add-ons manager is not rendered with cleartype

Categories

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Graphics
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
VERIFIED FIXED
Tracking Flags:
Tracking Status
blocking2.0 --- final+

People

(Reporter: at.light, Assigned: tnikkel)

References

Details

(Keywords: regression, Whiteboard: [softblocker])

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The poor-looking GDI rendering of the Add-ons Manager on Windows XP
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add-on manager text
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File menu
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2 ( .NET CLR 3.5.30729) White text on a dark background, such as in highlighted menu items on Windows (see http://i28.tinypic.com/5ck75x.png ), looks bad - the font smoothing isn't right. This is a regression from Firefox 4.0 beta 1. This also occurs in web pages (like Facebook's Chat menu), not just in the UI. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open any menu in the Firefox UI. 2. Mouse over an enabled item. Actual Results: Poor look. Expected Results: Good look (same as rest of Windows). This could affect low-vision users severely.
Changing the product to Firefox. I see this issue intermittently on web pages (such as Facebook's Chat menu), but it consistently appears in Firefox's UI. Any input would be appreciated.
Component: Layout: Text → Menus
Product: Core → Firefox
Version: unspecified → Trunk
QA Contact: layout.fonts-and-text → menus
Does turning off directwrite affect the behavior?
I am using Windows XP, which does not have DirectWrite. I have not used Firefox 4 on Windows 7 or Vista.
Odd.. What about d3d? There are some antialiasing issues that can cause too.
I just checked the latest nightly, and the issue is gone. Great work, guys. (I don't know who or what fixed it, but it was great anyway.) Marking fixed.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
As long as we don't know the real bug #, we mark those bugs as WFM. Thanks for re-checking.
Resolution: FIXED → WORKSFORME
Reopening. This problem still exists on latest nightlies, but only in the Add-ons Manager when software rendering is used. It doesn't make sense for only about:addons to be affected by this, but that seems to be the case.
Status: RESOLVED → UNCONFIRMED
Resolution: WORKSFORME → ---
Component: Menus → Add-ons Manager
Product: Firefox → Toolkit
The text circled in red is quite hard to read.
Summary: White text on dark background hard to read at small sizes → White text on dark background hard to read at small sizes in Add-ons Manager
So it happens with hardware acceleration disabled?
Definitely. Indeed, it *only* happens with acceleration disabled.
This only happens with cleartype enabled in the Windows appearance settings.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Ever confirmed: true
Summary: White text on dark background hard to read at small sizes in Add-ons Manager → With hardware acceleration disabled text in the add-ons manager is not rendered with cleartype
Well, lets move this under Core : Graphics.
Component: Add-ons Manager → Graphics
Product: Toolkit → Core
QA Contact: menus → thebes
anything to do with bug 363861?
(In reply to comment #14) > anything to do with bug 363861? Lets CC Roc who is working on this bug.
This will probably be fixed as a byproduct of Rob's cleartype changes.
Assignee: nobody → roc
blocking2.0: ? → final+
Should have been fixed by bug 363861.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago → 15 years ago
Depends on: 363861
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Alan, can you please check the latest nightly build if this issue has been solved for you? Thanks.
I'm no longer running Windows XP - I've upgraded to Windows 7, so I can't test anymore. Sorry.
If Bug 611918 is indeed the same as this one, then this is not fixed in the latest minefield (2011.01.09) The cleartype situation has actually gotten worse, now the menus (file, edit, ...) and the page context menu are not using cleartype screen-shots attached
Attached image add-on manager text —
Attached image File menu —
Roc, do we somehow not use Clear Type anymore? Switching between those two modes doesn't show any difference for me. Is this another bug?
Dunno what the story is with menus. The addons manager issue is probably bug 613040.
(In reply to comment #24) > Dunno what the story is with menus. The addons manager issue is probably bug > 613040. So should we better mark it as dupe or dependent on it?
Dependent for now I think
Depends on: 613040
Status: RESOLVED → REOPENED
Resolution: FIXED → ---
(In reply to comment #24) > Dunno what the story is with menus. Bug 624452, for the menus
Whiteboard: [softblocker]
@roc can you please look at Bug 624452
This should be mostly fixed now.
Marking this fixed, if it is not please reopen.
Status: REOPENED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago → 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
Alan, could you please re-check with the latest nightly build if the bug is now fixed for you? Thanks.
(In reply to comment #19) > I'm no longer running Windows XP - I've upgraded to Windows 7, so I can't test > anymore. Sorry.
Component: Graphics → History: Global
Target Milestone: --- → flash10
Component: History: Global → Graphics
Target Milestone: flash10 → ---
Verified on Build identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b12) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0b12
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
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