Font oddities in Firefox?

Shade · 08-27-2004, 10:24 PM

Firefox is a great browser, light and fast etc..

I've noticed, however, that on both of my slackware 9.1 and 10 systems, it seems to have occasional font problems. The fonts will sort of "scrunch" up where it seems as if 5-7 pixels are removed somewhere in the middle horizontally. This becomes apparent when scrolling normally, and text becomes visible from the bottom, scrolled up.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?

--Shade

synaptical · 08-27-2004, 10:42 PM

here's what i'm getting:
http://synaptical.dyndns.org/fontcon...efox_serif.png

but i've been having a bad time with fonts in linux lately, so for me it's not just firefox. something's screwy in X somewhere.

p.s. does it clear up if you scroll the text out of view and back again? or do you have to restart firefox?

Shade · 08-28-2004, 08:58 PM

I'm not getting what you're getting -- but it does clear up if you scroll it out of view and back into view again.

My desktop is displaying some of what I see on your screenshot, whereas the fonts on my laptop are perfect, except for the firefox issue.

--Shade

synaptical · 08-29-2004, 12:14 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Shade
My desktop is displaying some of what I see on your screenshot, whereas the fonts on my laptop are perfect, except for the firefox issue.

which comptuer is slack 9.1 and which one is 10? or are they FC?

Travis86 · 08-29-2004, 04:55 PM

Are you using an ATI graphics card?

From what I understand, there's a bug in the ATI driver and it messes things up. This was happening on my Windows computer.

As hard as I tried to find it, I couldn't find the exact bug report.

mikshaw · 08-29-2004, 07:01 PM

Same thing happens with nvidia, so it's nothing to do with the graphics driver.
I've seen this once in a while, but it never bothered me enough to do anything about it.