Firefox does not render Droid Sans Bold when font is loaded from the Google Web Fonts directory, if the font already exists on the computer

[Philip Kent]

Binary package hint: firefox

If a developer wishes to use the Droid Sans font on their website, they may choose to load it using the Google Web Fonts directory, so visitors who do not have the font installed can have the page rendered correctly.

However since there is a package in Ubuntu of the Droid fonts, it is possible an Ubuntu user may already have the fonts installed.

If this is the case, then, whilst the web page correctly renders in the Droid font, no bold fonts are rendered (if the bold font is loaded from Google). If the fonts are not installed locally then the bold font correctly loads.

In other web browsers, such as Arora or Epiphany, this issue does not occur - though no Droid appears when the font is removed suggesting that these dont support the font-face CSS parameter. This issue does not occur in Google Chrome which does support font-face.

By the look of it, this is a problem with Firefox's handing of fonts. I have tested this under openSUSE and Windows, and could not reproduce this issue.

Expected: bold droid fonts load
Happened: no bold droid fonts

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 22 11:20:52 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

[Dim (gigadim)]

Hi, Firefox 3.6.3 on WinXP also has this problem. I have Google Droid Sans TTF's installed for graphic design with it. Firefox does not show Droid Sans bold. My Other browsers ( Chrome and IE7 ) have no problem.

[dino99 (9d9)]

outdated flavor, and firefox have had so many new releases.