647625 - text layout in emails from aol user, on some scrollable windows & some dropdown menus is spaced illegibly

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Camino Graveyard :: Page Layout, defect)

Description

[Mark Thompson]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2011032020 Camino/2.0.7 (like Firefox/3.0.19)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en; rv:1.9.0.19) Gecko/2011032020 Camino/2.0.7 (like Firefox/3.0.19)

Email rec'd from some aol users is overwritten like when a typewriter carriage stops moving and characters are continually hitting the same space. Possibly like a line of text has no spacing (is that kerning?) and all the characters are scrunched together in the space where one to five charactors would normally be. It happened above when I typed keywords into the search field and clicked search, the scrollable area where the bug reports or components are listed became overwritten and the column dividers disappeared.

The email problem is only when I'm in Camino on the Yahoo mail site. It does not happen in the Apple Mail program or on the Gmail webpage.

Also on this page (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi) the dropdown menu's text are mispelled. Example:Operating System is showing "Mac OS X" to be "Qeg S W\" however when I click and hold the menu open... the text appears correctly with systems list. Hardware Platform menu items are also incorrect. i.e.: x86 = |<

I have tested the Yahoo emails and this page in Safari 5.0.4 and Firefox 3.6.16 and the text is rendered correctly in both. I just checked installed plug-ins and the text is scrambled within the sections of the page, but the headings are correct. I was going to say that Flip4mac is 2.3.6 and had to check... is why I just discovered that.

I was unable to read the two bug listing sections above in Camino and just checked them in Firefox. Nothing listed can I identify as the same or a similar problem, but "layout" and "spacing" seem to be the issues.

I have taken screen shots of the problems with the emails and with the scrollable list box above, but I don't see a way to upload them along with this report. I would be happy to send them if requested.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.I closed and reopened the tab for Yahoo mail. Still the same problem
2.I closed and reopened the installed plug-ins window and still the same problem
3.
Actual Results:  
No change to the text renderings.
I can't remember if I had closed Camino and restarted the laptop before or after I discovered this problem, but I believe I did, with no change. after I file this report I will check that and add a comment about it if that's possible.

Expected Results:  
It appears to be browser dependent so I expected it to misbehave as it has all day. I've only noticed the dropdown menu problem a few times in the last week or so. I can't pinpoint any particular website it happens on. This one for sure.
Today is the first time I noticed the email text/font misbehaving. 


I am on a MBPro 15", 2.4G, 2 Gigram, MacOSX 10.6.7

I have five windows open with 12 tabs active.

The only Web Features preference I have not checked is Block flash animations.

I had only recently updated to this version of Camino and the same day updated to MacOSX 10.6.7 from 10.6.6 I believe that was 3/24/11, on 3/25/11 I updated flash at Camino's request
I guess I'm using the default theme because I didn't even know I could change it.
Camino is my default browser and Safari my default rss reader.
oh, I can't remember ever completely erasing my cookies although from time to time I delete a few.
I have it set to ask before accepting a cookie and I usually check 'only for this session'. rarely otherwise.
I empty the cache now and then.
I use KeyRemap4MacBook to make the right option key an Enter key like the older keyboards used to have. Just got used to it being there and it has caused zero problems that I know of.
Activity monitor shows, Camino, KeyRemap, Flashplayer and Kernal_task seem to be the only things not using 64bit
Although it appears as all the other problem pages do, I hope it pastes legibly,
Here is the copy/paste of the about:buildconfig >>
about:buildconfig

Build platform
target
powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.1

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc-4.0 -arch ppc 	gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -W -Wno-long-long -gdwarf-2 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -fpascal-strings -fno-common -I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon
g++-4.0 -arch ppc 	gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370) 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -gdwarf-2 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -fpascal-strings -fno-common -fshort-wchar -I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon

Configure arguments
--enable-application=camino --with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk --enable-macos-target=10.4 --target=powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.1 --with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk --enable-optimize --enable-static
Build platform
target
i386-apple-darwin8.11.1

Build tools
Compiler 	Version 	Compiler flags
gcc-4.0 -arch i386 	gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370) 	-Wall -W -Wno-unused -Wpointer-arith -Wcast-align -W -Wno-long-long -gdwarf-2 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -fpascal-strings -fno-common -I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon
g++-4.0 -arch i386 	gcc version 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370) 	-fno-rtti -fno-exceptions -Wall -Wconversion -Wpointer-arith -Woverloaded-virtual -Wsynth -Wno-ctor-dtor-privacy -Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wcast-align -Wno-long-long -gdwarf-2 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk -fno-strict-aliasing -fpascal-strings -fno-common -fshort-wchar -I/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk/Developer/Headers/FlatCarbon

Configure arguments
--enable-application=camino --with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk --enable-macos-target=10.4 --target=i386-apple-darwin8.11.1 --with-macos-sdk=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.4u.sdk --enable-optimize --enable-static

Comment 1

[Mark Thompson]

Attachment: screenshot of anomali bugzilla webpage

illustrates the problem

Comment 2

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

Sounds like you might have a corrupt font, or seriously messed up font settings in your profile. Does a fresh profile also demonstrate the problem?

http://pimpmycamino.com/parts/troubleshoot-camino  will help you automate that process.

If that doesn't make any difference, let us know and we can proceed from there.

Comment 3

[Mark Thompson]

I cannot now duplicate the problem. I will comment again if I do.

Comment 4

[philippe (part-time)]

If the problems appears again (esp if you recently upgraded to OS X 10.6.7), check for invalid fonts through font book and clear the font caches. See the details here:
http://www.ardisson.org/afkar/2011/03/29/camino-crashes-after-upgrading-to-mac-os-x-10-6-7/

Comment 5

[Mark Thompson]

@Chris
the fresh profile seems to make it work just fine. I could not duplicate my problem.  Thank you!!!

@philippe
I also suspect one or more fonts were at fault, although it did not crash. If it happens again I will take your suggestion. Thank you!!!

Comment 6

[philippe (part-time)]

OK, resolving as WorksForMe for now. If the problem reappears, and clearing font caches etc doesn't help, please reopen.