Firefox display Text overlap

[David Oxland]

Binary package hint: firefox-3.0

This and several other pages display with overlapping text in this case so that the telephone #'s are partly obscured.
expected to be able to read all text.

SYSTEM INFORMATION
 Running Ubuntu Linux, the 5.0 release.
 GNOME: 2.26.1 (Ubuntu 2009-05-06)
 Kernel version: 2.6.28-15-generic (#49-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 18 18:40:08 UTC 2009)
 GCC: 4.3.3 (i486-linux-gnu)
 Xorg: unknown (09 April 2009 02:10:02AM) (09 April 2009 02:10:02AM)
 Hostname: david-laptop
 Uptime: 0 days 4 h 3 min

CPU INFORMATION
 GenuineIntel, Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.86GHz
 Number of CPUs: 1
 CPU clock currently at 1867.000 MHz with 2048 KB cache
 Numbering: family(6) model(13) stepping(8)
 Bogomips: 3723.90
 Flags: fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss tm pbe nx up bts est tm2

MEMORY INFORMATION
 Total memory: 1002 MB
 Total swap: 282 MB

STORAGE INFORMATION
 SCSI device - scsi0
  Vendor: ATA
  Model: SAMSUNG MP0804H
 SCSI device - scsi1
  Vendor: _NEC
  Model: DVD+-RW ND-6650A

HARDWARE INFORMATION
MOTHERBOARD
 Host bridge
  Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
  Subsystem: Dell Device 0189
 PCI bridge(s)
  Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3) (prog-if 01)
 USB controller(s)
  Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
  Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 20)
 ISA bridge
  Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
  Subsystem: Dell Device 0189
 IDE interface
  Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 80 [Master])
  Subsystem: Dell Device 0189

GRAPHIC CARD
 VGA controller
  nVidia Corporation NV41.8 [GeForce Go 6800] (rev a2)
  Subsystem: Dell Device 019c

SOUND CARD
 Multimedia controller
  Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
  Subsystem: Dell Device 0189

NETWORK
 Network controller
  Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG [Calexico2] Network Connection (rev 05)
  Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1020
 Ethernet controller
  Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
  Subsystem: Dell Device 0189
 Modem
  Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
  Subsystem: Conexant Systems, Inc. Device 5423

NVIDIA GRAPHIC CARD INFORMATION
 Model name: GeForce Go 6800
 Card Type: PCI-E 16x
 Video RAM: 256 MB
 GPU Frequency: 125 MHz
 Driver version: NVIDIA UNIX x86 Kernel Module 185.18.14 Wed May 27 02:23:13 PDT 2009

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0.13+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.9.04.1
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_CA.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox-3.0
Uname: Linux 2.6.28-15-generic i686

[David Oxland (doxland)]

Screen shot of display in case you do not see what I see

[drew212 (mstngdrew212)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. However, according to this report, you are not using the most recent version of this package for your Ubuntu release. Please upgrade to the most recent version and let us know if you are still having this issue. Thanks in advance.

[David Oxland (doxland)]

Version I'm using is Firefox ver. 3.0.14 which is the most only one offered via Ubuntu's Synaptic.
While checking on the Firefox site I see that there is a version for Linux ver 3.5 and while exploring how to untar Iand install I discovered the solution on this page which has fixed my problem.
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Some+text+shows+up+bold+after+upgrade?style_mode=inproduct&s=upgrade

 It lay in coming back to the shown font sizes. I've no idea how they got changed or set that way.

 I notice that the fonts were set this way on both my computers leading me to believe that it happened by install or upgrade from Ubuntu.
For me the problem is solved.
Thanks for your patience