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Bug 960935
Opened 10 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
Breakdown: Use better default monospace fonts
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
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(Reporter: phlsa, Unassigned)
Details
As suggested in bug 468169, we should change the default monospaced font. I filed a new bug because this is really a desktop issue. This is what we should do: XP: keep the default (courier) Vista/7: Consolas OS X 10.5: Monaco OS X 10.6: Menlo
(In reply to Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] from comment #0) > XP: keep the default (courier) > Vista/7: Consolas > OS X 10.5: Monaco > OS X 10.6: Menlo These are old specs. OS X 10.5 isn't supported anymore. There should be a specs for OSX 10.6-10.9 and for Windows Vista-8.
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Comment 2•10 years ago
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You are right, that is not the most up-to-date version. So: XP: Courier New Vista-Win8: Consolas OS X: Menlo I'm not sure about what fonts ship with various Linux distributions. I have DejaVu sans mono on my Ubuntu box which looks quite alright, but I don't know how common that one is. I think some distros in the past shipped with Vera sans, which also has a nice monospace version.
Comment 3•10 years ago
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(In reply to Philipp Sackl [:phlsa] from comment #2) > You are right, that is not the most up-to-date version. > > So: > XP: Courier New > Vista-Win8: Consolas This may be a bit tricky to implement, as we ship a single set of default prefs for Windows regardless of version. One possibility might be to run a script at first-run and update time that checks the user's OS version and adjusts the default prefs accordingly. (That's already been suggested in some other bug that I don't have handy just now...) (If we're going to change from Courier New -> Consolas, though, I wonder if we should change Times New Roman -> Cambria and Arial -> Calibri at the same time, for a more complete and coordinated visual refresh.) > OS X: Menlo > > I'm not sure about what fonts ship with various Linux distributions. I have > DejaVu sans mono on my Ubuntu box which looks quite alright, but I don't > know how common that one is. I think some distros in the past shipped with > Vera sans, which also has a nice monospace version. In general, I think Linux systems should be configured so that the name "monospace" is mapped to a suitable default by fontconfig. (Likewise for "serif" and "sans-serif".)
Updated•10 years ago
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No longer blocks: fxdesktopbacklog
Flags: firefox-backlog+
Summary: Use better default monospace fonts → Breakdown: Use better default monospace fonts
Whiteboard: [feature] p=0 → p=0 [qa-]
Updated•9 years ago
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Flags: qe-verify-
Whiteboard: p=0 [qa-]
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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