828192 - Fx 18 regression: bad cleartype on selected menu items

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 812871

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[al_9x]

xp (reproducible in vm), new profile, select/highlight any menu item (e.g. Main Menu->File->New Window)

Comment 1

[al_9x]

Attachment: 14.0 vs latest nightly

Comment 2

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

I can confirm that I see this (in WinXP on VirtualBox). Firefox 17.0.1 is OK; Firefox 18.0 has the poorer rendering, as shown in al_9x's screenshot from Nightly.

Comment 3

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Using m-c nightly builds:

Good: 2012-09-28
Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/895f66c4eada

Bad: 2012-09-29
Built from http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/c09a0c022b2e

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/pushloghtml?fromchange=895f66c4eada&tochange=c09a0c022b2e

Could this be caused by painting changes triggered by the DLBI landing in some way?

Comment 4

[Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (email my personal email if necessary)]

I guess so but it's not clear why.

Comment 5

[al_9x]

(In reply to Robert O'Callahan (:roc) (Mozilla Corporation) from comment #4)
> I guess so but it's not clear why.

That's the extent of the investigation?  Mozilla has a budget in the hundreds of millions, but rendering text at the Fx 3.6 level of quality is out of reach?

Comment 6

[al_9x]

This is now in TB 24.0 as well, 17.0 was normal, nice surprise.

What is the objection to fixing this?