css box limit ignored in linux

[Corsaire]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

on some web sites, a CSS box limit is ignored and the text that should stay into the box does overflow on the sides or the bottom of it

on the example image you can see the box under the text "A la une sur canard plus" passing the bottom border.
This does not happen on the firefox 3.0 Windows version.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Jul 12 11:42:42 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.8.04.1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64

[Cody Miller (norokusai)]

Because Opera on Linux also renders this text below the width of the box, I can't help but think that the problem is due to a combination of CSS scripting errors and font-size issues.

If you view the site in Windows, the text does not overflow the confining box. In Linux, it does. If you compare the two, the Linux fonts are a fair bit larger than the Windows ones. If you tell F3 to zoom only the text (View -> Zoom -> Zoom Text Only) and play with the sizes (Ctrl + + and Ctrl + -), you'll notice that the font size changes but the box does not dynamically flow to fit the size of the text.

My assumption (though only an assumption) is that the size of the fonts on Linux and the fixed-height of the box are the culprits here, not necessarily a bug with the Linux distribution.

[Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)]

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 is this still an issue for you? Could you try to reproduce the same with Ubuntu 8.10 or 9.04? Thanks in advance.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

You didnt attach a testcase so we can check whether the problem still exist. if you still see this, please reopen.