huge text displayed on certain web pages
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
|
Undecided
|
Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
Viewing http://
Screen captures images: firefox-
This phenomenon has not happened on any other web site, and i've been surfing, er "researching" quite a lot with Firefox 3.0 on Ubuntu 8.04, installed since about two weeks ago. Many hundreds of sites, including fancy designer sites using ajax, flash, etc etc.
The site whose URL i give uses xhtml, which may be uncommon in some particular way to trigger this bug. Maybe there's a clue in the page source as seen by firefox.
**** PAGE SOURCE SNIPPET from Ralph Morrison site ***
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://
<html xmlns="http://
<head><meta http-equiv=
<meta name="Generator" content="iWeb 2.0.3" />
<meta name="iWeb-Build" content=
<meta name="viewport" content="width=800" />
*** END
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Aug 2 01:29:02 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
NonfreeKernelMo
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.1+build1+
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-generic x86_64
| darenw (darenw) wrote | #1 |
| darenw (darenw) wrote | #2 |
| Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | New → Incomplete |
| darenw (darenw) wrote | #4 |
| Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote | #5 |
| Changed in firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Incomplete → Invalid |
i want to mention this does not appear to be the same as an earlier bug in the list shown while i submitted this one - that user was merely getting text zoomed in a couple steps more than ideal, while i'm getting letters the size of planets, and within a second after seeing a mostly normal rendering.
Also, zooming out alone does not restore normal appearance. Positioning of letters is strange, like CSS or text metrics are all messed up until the page is reloaded.