760713 - The letter "W" is faint and blurry in Firefox 12

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

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Attachment: The letter W is not clear in Fiirefox 12.jpg

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/12.0
Build ID: 20120420145725

Steps to reproduce:

when i went to yahoo main page  The letter "W" is faint and blurry all the test are fine


Actual results:

letter "W" is blurry & Faded out


Expected results:

Should have been clear and bold like all the rest of the letters

Comment 1

[Jo Hermans]

Yahoo is using here:
color: rgb(22, 56, 124);
font-family: arial,helvetica,clean,sans-serif;
font-size: 14.0333px;
font-weight: 700;

If you're using Windows 7, you're probably using DirectDraw. This means that actual text is drawn on the screen by the operating system, with the help from your graphics card. It's the OS that takes decisions like anti-aliasing (ClearType), etc ... It's of course also affected by the actual font, the fontsize that the website has chosen, the resolution of your screen, etc ... Your browser isn't actually doing anything special here.

You can switch of off (reverting to the built-in algorithm) by going to Options->Advanced->General and click on 'use hardware acceleration if possible'. But it will affect the entire application. Some people also disable ClearType on the OS level, but that affects the entire OS.

Comment 2

[Swarnava Sengupta (:Swarnava)]

can you try in latest Firefox nightly? 
http://nightly.mozilla.org/

Comment 3

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

It would also be useful to find out if you have Cleartext enabled and properly configured or either disabled or not configured.

Comment 4

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Cleartext enabled and not properly configured for the monitor you are using would be a possible cause of what you are seeing.

Comment 5

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

Oops.  I think it is actually called ClearType.

Comment 6

[x64.bits]

thanks issues has been resolved

Comment 7

[Bill Gianopoulos [:WG9s]]

The correct resolution for bugs that have been fixed, but we don't know what code actually fixed it is WORKSFORME.  INVLAID is for things that were never really bugs to start with.