790645 - font inflation: Reloading page with content in form input and zooming makes text taller than height of input box, gets partially hidden

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

Attachment: screenshot tall test partially hidden

Firefox Mobile nightly 20120912, Android 4.1.1 (stock), Google Nexus S

This seems to be a problem with font inflation: Reloading a page with content in form input which you typed before and zooming after the reload makes the text taller than the height of the input box.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Open https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/ (I used portrait mode).
2. Tap the input in the header and type "Test".
3. Reload the page.
4. Zoom in onto the input.
5. Tap into the input.

Actual result:
The text in the input gets taller and partially hidden.

Comment 1

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

I can reproduce this, Galaxy Nexus (Nightly 09/12). Don't think this has to do with font-inflation though. CC'ing some other folks.

Comment 2

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

This is also reproducible on mozilla-release (15), and mozilla-beta (16).

Comment 3

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

Looks font-inflation related to me, but I'll leave it to others to decide.

Comment 4

[Kartikaya Gupta (email:[e-mail])]

Turn the text size preference down to tiny in the options make this not happen any more. Sounds like font inflation to me.

Comment 5

[Scott Johnson (:jwir3)]

Yeah, this definitely looks like a font inflation bug. I'll take a look at it. I've actually seen this behavior from time to time, but I haven't (until now) been able to get consistent STR to get it to reproduce, so thanks for that!

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

If the fix ends up being safe enough, we can consider uplifting.

Comment 7

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

Scott, should this still be tracking 18?

Comment 8

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Might be a dupe of Bug 750749

Comment 9

[Scott Johnson (:jwir3)]

(In reply to Brad Lassey [:blassey] from comment #7)
> Scott, should this still be tracking 18?

No, I haven't had time to look into a fix for this yet.

Comment 10

[Rachelle Yang [:ryang][[e-mail]]]

This bug is old and no more progress for almost 3 years, so I am removing the tracking flag now.
feel free to renominate. 

Thank you !

Comment 11

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