Closed
Bug 922022
Opened 12 years ago
Closed 7 years ago
redundant/incorrect/random <font face="x"> tags inserted in the middle of corrected words (partially erased with backspace, then retyped) with certain valid font face attributes in HTML message source; causes spelling issues
Categories
(Thunderbird :: Untriaged, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
WORKSFORME
People
(Reporter: sijarvis, Unassigned)
Details
(Keywords: fonts)
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/24.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130910160258
Steps to reproduce:
1. Set HTML font to Arial
2. Create new message
3. Type "foobar"
4. Backspace 3 times
5. Type "bar"
Actual results:
Actual result: HTML source shows
<body><font face="Arial">foo<font face="Arial">bar</font>
This also has the impact that with a real word, spell check as you type is broken. This seems to be analogous to bug 812638 but with font face instead of font size.
Expected results:
Expected result:
<body><font face="Arial">foobar</font>
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Comment 1•12 years ago
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I should add that I am using Win 7 x64.
This bug has been nagging me for ages now and I finally got frustrated enough to create a Bugzilla account just so I could log in and post my thoughts on it. I'm experiencing exactly the same symptoms that Simon Jarvis reports above. Interesting to note that the message appears fine in the sent mail folder; it's not until you view the source and look at the HTML markup or view your email on another mail client (as your recipient might) that it becomes apparent. So, obviously TB's HTML rendering engine is ignoring the superfluous tags it generates.
This bug is from September of last year... and from what I've read on similar bugs, the longevity of it seems to be on par for Mozilla. So... what are the odds of an actual fix for this? Should I just disable HTML composition altogether or change mail clients?
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0
I managed to 'fix' this bug by doing a full uninstall of TB. Used Add/Remove Programs to uninstall and then manually deleted my entire Thunderbird folder in C:\Users\<user>\AppData\Roaming. Then I rebooted, cleaned the registry with CCleaner (just for good measure!), rebooted again, and finally did a fresh install of 24.6.0.
Once I configured my accounts I sent some test messages and checked the source to verify the villainous tags weren't present.
Oh, and just to be clear, simply uninstalling & reinstalling TB doesn't fix this - you *must* remove your profile entirely. It might also be sufficient to just change to a new profile but I took the opportunity to clean out a couple of GBs of data.
This looks like a duplicate of bug 812638, apparently fixed on TB 21.
Maybe, for some reason, there is really a need to re-create the profile.
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Comment 5•7 years ago
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If this still occurs for you please comment in the bug report
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 7 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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