724655 - text formatting over-writing other text

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 912159

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[George R. Goffe]

Attachment: ff-txt-overlay1.jpeg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120202 Firefox/13.0a1
Build ID: 20120202031238

Steps to reproduce:

go to this web site "http://www.cwa-union.org/pages/congress-not-a-compromise", there's a LOT of text and images.


Actual results:

Lots of overlays.


Expected results:

No overlays. This could be a goofed up web site and it's possible that it's designed for Windows systems browsers like I.E.?

Comment 1

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

looks ok for me with Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:13.0a1) Gecko/20120201 Firefox/13.0a1 SeaMonkey/2.10a1

Comment 2

[George R. Goffe]

Matthias,

How's it look from a Linux/Unix system?

Regards,

George...

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The layout itself is the same on all platforms. There could be only font related differences.

Please try it without addons -> http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Safe+Mode

Comment 4

[George R. Goffe]

Attachment: Screenshot showing text overlay

Matthias,

What a painful process. I'm running about 28 instances of the browser via "open in new window"... uncounted tabs.

Enclosed is a screenshot of the url above with FF in safe mode (latest Nightly).

I don't see any changes in behavior, do you?

I'm trying to build the beta but keep finding build problems. Sigh.

Where do "we" go from here?

Regards,

George...

Comment 5

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

This is also wfm with the Firefox nightly from the Ubuntu PPA
You can only try a new, additional profile http://support.mozilla.org/kb/Managing%20profiles

Comment 6

[George R. Goffe]

Matthias,

I finally got to make a new profile...

The default fonts and sizes did NOT show this problem.

I tried to implement my changes, starting with the content tab for "edit preferences". I did NOT change anything else. I made the initial size "17", the problem started appearing but when I tried the "advanced" button, I was not able to change any of the other fonts, there is usually a list of sizes when you poke the "size" buttons. This list of fonts did NOT appear. Is this another bug? Am I doing something wrong?

George...

Comment 7

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

The overwriting can happen (AFAIK) if you set a minimum font size. The developer of that site just expects that the font has the size X and bigger fonts doesn't fit in the expected are.

I can reproduce any issues with the font preferences on my system...

Comment 8

[George R. Goffe]

Matthias,

I don't see very well so I set "my" firefox fonts to 17... including the minimum font size.

This is a tough bug to resolve. :(

I use Seamonkey on occasion. I don't recall this problem in that browser. Let me check and I'll post my results here.

THANKS!

George...

Comment 9

[George R. Goffe]

Matthias,

I do see some rendering problems on this same web site with Seamonkey (nightly).

The rendering is not quite as bad as Firefox but is definitely still present. Sigh...

George...

Comment 10

[[:Aleksej]]

NoSquint https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nosquint/ can help somewhat, by setting a default zoom level for full page zoom and text-only zoom separately.