670479 - Sans-serif fonts rendered as serif on Samsung Galaxy S II

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 636042

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P2)

Description

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

Attachment: subtraction.com on the Samsung Galaxy S II. Note the body text in serif font

For some reason, Firefox Aurora (Mobile, currently 7.0a2) renders a serif font instead of a sans-serif font in the majority of cases.

Screenshot of the most sans-serif heavy site I know (subtraction.com) attached, but the same problem can also be seen in things like Google Reader.

It detracts from the overall experience, especially since the Droid Serif font isn't a particularly good font.

Interestingly, it seems to do the right thing on e.g. the Motorola Atrix.

Android version is 2.3.3.

Comment 1

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

Attachment: subtraction.com on an iPhone 4. Note how the body text is sans-serif.

Screenshot from iPhone to show the difference (but also seems to do the right thing on other Android phones)

Comment 2

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

If you need the actual device to identify the error, I carry it with me when I'm in the office. I'm also happy to run any tools that can figure out what's going on here (DOM Inspector?).

Comment 3

[Alex Limi (:limi) — Firefox UX Team]

Attachment: subtraction.com on the built-in browser. Note how the body text is sans-serif.

…and the built-in “Internet” browser also does the right thing, which is what leads me to think this is a Firefox bug as opposed to OS/font/Samsung.

Comment 4

[Doug Turner (:dougt)]

limi - i think this may be a dup of bug 636042.

Comment 5

[Thomas Arend [:tarend]]

Perhaps also related to Bug 634997 ?