Epiphany Web Browser's gtkmozembed does not update font settings automatically

Bug #131192 reported by Alexander Jones
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Epiphany Browser
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
Mozilla Firefox
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned
firefox (Ubuntu)
Won't Fix
Low
Unassigned
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: epiphany-browser

A restart of Epiphany is currently required in order for the page renderer to pick up new font settings, in particular, changes to the font smoothing and hinting settings. The GTK UI responds properly.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Aug 8 22:40:04 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.10
Package: epiphany-browser 2.19.6-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: epiphany-browser
Uname: Linux flash 2.6.22-9-generic #1 SMP Fri Aug 3 00:50:37 GMT 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

Tags: apport-bug
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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

Thank you for your bug. Could you try if that happens when using firefox?

Changed in epiphany-browser:
importance: Undecided → Low
status: New → Incomplete
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Alexander Jones (alex-weej) wrote :

Firefox's main XUL UI doesn't even honour the *current* settings if you're using FreeType's "native" glyph hinting, but that's another bug (and it's the default setup.)

But nothing "Mozilla" automatically catches updates, so this includes Epiphany's use of GtkMozEmbed, the whole of Firefox and Thunderbird, the content viewer in Liferea, etc.

Changed in epiphany-browser:
status: Incomplete → New
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :
Changed in epiphany-browser:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
status: New → Triaged
Changed in epiphany-browser:
status: Unknown → New
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In , Cosimo Cecchi (cosimoc) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071103 Epiphany/2.20 Firefox/2.0.0.9
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9a8) Gecko/2007091211 GranParadiso/3.0a8

This bug has been opened on Ubuntu and forwarded upstream to Epiphany, but the same problem is reproducible with Firefox 2.0.0.9 and Gran Paradiso alpha8, so I am forwarding it here.

A restart of the browser is currently required in order for the page renderer to
pick up new font settings, in particular, changes to the font smoothing and
hinting settings.

Link to gnome bug

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox on GNOME and visit any page.
2. Go to System->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts and modify hinting, smoothing and/or DPI preferences.
Actual Results:
While the whole environment change according to the preferences, Firefox does only after a restart.

Expected Results:
Firefox would change dynamically as the rest of the environment according to what the user has chosen.

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In , Cosimo Cecchi (cosimoc) wrote :
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

firefox bug according to GNOME upstream, they send it to the mozilla bugzilla on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=403776

Changed in epiphany-browser:
assignee: desktop-bugs → nobody
status: Triaged → New
Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → New
Changed in epiphany-browser:
status: New → Invalid
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Hew (hew) wrote :

I confirm this issue still exists in firefox 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3

Changed in firefox:
status: New → Confirmed
Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Confirmed
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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote : Re: [Bug 131192] Re: Epiphany Web Browser's gtkmozembed does not update font settings automatically

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:06:41AM -0000, Hewus wrote:
> I confirm this issue still exists in firefox 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
>
> ** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Confirmed

firefox 2 wont see a fix for this

 affects ubuntu/firefox
 status wontfix

 - Alexander

Changed in firefox:
status: Confirmed → Won't Fix
Changed in epiphany-browser:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Invalid → Unknown
Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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rusivi2 (rusivi2-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to look at all reported bugs in a timely manner.
There have been many changes in Ubuntu since that time you reported the bug and your problem may have been fixed with some of the updates. It would help us a lot if you could test the current Ubuntu development version (10.10). If you can test it, and it is still an issue, we would appreciate if you could upload updated logs by running apport-collect <bug #>, and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

This is no more a supported version

Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
Changed in firefox:
importance: Medium → Undecided
status: New → Invalid
Changed in epiphany-browser:
importance: Medium → Undecided
status: Unknown → New
status: New → Invalid
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