785669 - Text appears to be bold, but normalizes on mouse over on Windows 8

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[thedoginthewok]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
Build ID: 20120713134347

Steps to reproduce:

Move mouse cursor over text that appears to bold (for example youtube account area).
After doing that, the text doesn't appear bold anymore.

I made two videos to demonstrate that.


Actual results:

The bold text gets underlined while the cursor is above it and the "boldness" goes away.
Demonstration Videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCpUr5Mvy_s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAofzSBMJGI

Please watch the video in fullscreen, otherwise it is impossible to recognize what I mean.

This also happens while I post a comment to reddit. While typing the text gets bold every few seconds and immediately becomes normal again.




Expected results:

The text should'nt be bold at all.

It seams that this problem is only present with text that changes it appearance on mouse overs.

Comment 1

[thedoginthewok]

It's important to mention, that this problem only exists on Win8. 

I have tested the Firefox 15 beta and the Aurora Alpha and they have the same problem.

Comment 2

[thedoginthewok]

Bug remains in Firefox 15.

Comment 3

[juan becerra [:juanb]]

Is this still a problem if you use Firefox 16 beta 6?

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Do you still see this when using a current version?

Comment 5

[thedoginthewok]

This bug was fixed many month ago. It's working correctly now.