Text Boxes in Firefox are the wrong size.

[David Foster]

Binary package hint: firefox

Text boxes are drawn too wide in Firefox on Ubuntu. In Firefox on Windows (XP & 7), they are drawn correctly. Latest version 3.6.13

I have tried the same pages in Epiphany and Chromium web browsers on Ubuntu and both display correctly

The effect is to make the web page very messy. A couple of examples -

http://www.parmaviolet.co.uk/contactus.asp
http://webmail.lakesgalleries.com

Firefox 3.6.13+build3+nob
Ubuntu 10.10

David

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-24.42-generic 2.6.35.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-24-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jan 18 18:06:33 2011
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.13+build3+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.10.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Could you provide a screenshot please? I cannot reproduce this.

[David Foster (david-highleys)]

The attached screenshot is Firefox 3.6.13 running on Ubuntu 10.10.

On all the main Windows Browsers, including Firefox 3.6.13, the text boxes are the same width as the 'Address' textarea box, with the right-hand edge lining up with the left of the 'stamp' above.

I have other screenshots of different websites if you require them.

David

[David Foster (david-highleys)]

I am also adding a screenshot of how the page looks on Windows Firefox 3.6.13 and other Windows browsers.

David.

[Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson)]

This is a website bug. It uses the size attribute of the input elements to specify the width, which is dependent on font size. Instead, it should use CSS to set the width of the input elements as a number of pixels.

[David Foster (david-highleys)]

Thanks for the reply.

I hear and understand what you say, but what still has me a little puzzled is why Ubuntu Firefox 3.6.13 should display text boxes (and on some other sites too) very differently from the Windows Firefox of the same version and other Windows browsers also.