949493 - Opening a link in the background causes the target page to have large font

Status: NEW

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[Timothy Kim]

Attachment: Resulting page with enlarged font on Mac

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20131030131730

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open a following page https://twitter.com/TheSwitch/status/411133792540450817
2. Right click on the link for "wapo.st/Ji823J" and click Open link in New Tab
3. Switch to the new tab

This behavior is reproduciable from any link to that washingtonpost.com page. See this test page: http://timothylive.net/test.html

Browsers used to test this issue:

- Firefox 25.0 - Linux Fedora 19
- Firefox 25.0.1 - Mac OS X 10.7.5
- Firefox Nightly - 29.0a1 (2013-12-11) (Linux - Fedora 19)




Actual results:

Some of the fonts on the page was rendered enlarged. (Upon reloading the page, font size went back to normal)

See attached screenshot for mac.


Expected results:

The font size should not be so big.

Comment 1

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I can reproduce this issue with latest Nightly 29.0a1 (build ID: 20131215030202) on Ubuntu 13.10 64-bit, by following both the STR from comment 0 and by opening the test page from the same comment.