font size incorrect on some capital letters

Bug #239951 reported by Mike McMurray
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

When viewing some web pages the capital letters in some groups of text are abnormally large. Other caps in the same groups of text are fine. Seems to happen on random Capitals at any place in that word. Only noticed on RC2 of FF3 in Ubuntu 8.04. Source for the page shows the fonts are the same size.

Resizing text in the browser shows the text correctly at both smaller and larger sizes. Switch back to default viewable size and problem shows again.

See attached screenshot taken from example site http://www.wekadesign.co.nz/projects/mende/

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sat Jun 14 20:15:18 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~rc1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/home/username/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

Tags: apport-bug
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Mike McMurray (big-mike) wrote :
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Mike McMurray (big-mike) wrote :

After some seemingly unrelated Ubuntu updates this morning the problem has disappeared. No reboot and browser is still open since logging this issue.

If unreproducible please close.

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caro (cmatt85-bellsouth) wrote :

I randomly see the same problem with Ubuntu 8.04 and FF3 (both RC and final release). Closing Firefox and relaunching will resolve the issue normally. See attached screenshot.

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Masoris (masoris) wrote :

I have exactly same problem as caro.

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Pär Bohrarper (par-bohrarper) wrote :

The problem only seems to appear when using "Slight" as the setting for hinting.

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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: New → Incomplete
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Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Closing this bug report as no further information has been provided and I can't reproduce the issue. Please feel free to reopen this bug if you can provide the information asked for. Thanks!.

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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