827389 - Text from search box does not maintain the font and proportion of other text from the same page.

Status: NEW

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

Description

[Bogdan Maris, Desktop Test Engineering]

Attachment: Screenshot with the issue.

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; WOW64; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130106042019

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download the A Yummy Apology font from: http://www.1001freefonts.com/
2. After downloading and installing the font, navigate to Options/Content menu and select the font as Default font and set the size to 22 or higher. 
3. In the Content tab go to Advanced from Fonts & Colors and uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selection above".
4. Navigate to http://store.steampowered.com/
5. Write something in the search box.

Expected results:
The text written has the same font and size with other text on the page.

Actual results:
The text written maintains a default font, not the one selected and the size of the text increases and stretches out of the search box.

Note:
If the size is lowered on step 2. then the text increases its size and does not maintain the font style.
This si reproducible on latest Nightly, Aurora, 18 RC, 17 ESR and Firefox 4.0 so no regression window is needed.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is probably because the search box uses a system font, not the font you selected in preferences?

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

That doesn't seem to explain why it's so grossly oversized in the screenshot, though.

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Indeed.

Comment 4

[David Baron :dbaron: (⌚️UTC-4, no longer working on Mozilla)]

Maybe related to the broken code at:
http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/file/795632f0e4fe/layout/style/nsRuleNode.cpp#l3052