762467 - Word/Character Spacing Error with Italics [FF13 +] [Windows XP]

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 754452

(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Description

[Temp User]

Attachment: Font_Error_1.JPG

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; rv:13.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/13.0
Build ID: 20120601045813

Steps to reproduce:

Browsing various sites on FF13 and up. 

FF12 and previous versions do not have this issue.

Creating a new profile and no add-ons does not solve this issue.

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2483357
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2483333
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?f=38&t=2483189
These links show that the issue exists on Windows XP and possibly Vista (Win 7 users don't seem affected).


Actual results:

Sites with Italicized characters/words spaced oddly between one another.


Expected results:

They should be evenly spaced out.

Comment 1

[Temp User]

Attachment: About Firefox's "Firefox is up to date" has this spacing issue.

Comment 2

[Temp User]

Attachment: Font_Error_1

Comment 3

[Mathieu]

List of forums where such bugs can be seen (at least on WinXP) :
http://www.mesdiscussions.net/ref-forum-auto-8.html
It's a french link but a list of links is provided on the left.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

I think this is the same issue as described in bug 754452.