Comment 16 for bug 379761

2009/7/3 Alexander Sack <email address hidden>

> I played a bit around and i cannot reproduce the problem for the builds
> we provide for karmic. It happens with upstream builds only, which
> probably happens because of a version mismatch of what mozilla builds-in
> and what we have on the system. Can you confirm that you dont see any
> difference comparing ffox menu with other gnome app menus?

the menu in ff 3.5 has the same rendering as the desktop apps, it's only the
content of the page that seems to use a different rendering. can others
confirm?

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> FF 3.5 font hinting
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/379761
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> Status in “firefox-3.5” package in Ubuntu: Triaged
>
> Bug description:
> Binary package hint: firefox-3.5
>
> asac, ask that I create a new account and observe if the FF 3.5 uses the
> gnome appearance settings, it seems that it doesn't.
>
> I set my gnome settings to *hint full*.
> http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/9426/74100265.png, FF 3.1 (on the
> right) is hinting correctly. F 3.5 isn't, it seems to be using *hint
> slight*. Have a look at the gnome taskbar and the FF 3.5 menu bar the
> renderings clearly aren't the same.
>
> Is the hinting hardcoded somewhere?
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> Architecture: amd64
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
> NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
> Package: firefox-3.5 3.5~b4~hg20090330r24021+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
> ProcEnviron:
> SHELL=/usr/bin/zsh
> PATH=(custom, user)
> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
> SourcePackage: firefox-3.5
> Uname: Linux 2.6.28-11-generic x86_64
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