[RndTbl] Fwd: Re: firefox font weirdness?

[Adam Thompson]

Oh!  Also clear your font *cache*.  This is supposed be automatic today, but ... maybe?

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From: Roundtable <roundtable-bounces at muug.ca> on behalf of Trevor Cordes <trevor at tecnopolis.ca>
Sent: Friday, March 8, 2024 9:11:04 PM
To: Hartmut W Sager <hwsager at marityme.net>
Cc: Continuation of Round Table discussion <roundtable at muug.ca>
Subject: Re: [RndTbl] Fwd: Re: firefox font weirdness?

On 2024-03-08 Hartmut W Sager wrote:
> Furthermore, here's my Firefox settings "fonts, advanced ...":
>
>
> Of those settings, the only one that might have been me is the Times
> New Roman for serif(ied) font.

Thanks Hartmut.  I went in there and mines was set to firefox default
which appears to be Bitstream Vera.  I changed it to Liberation and now
my minimal html page looks fine again.

I wonder why Vera would look all messed up in firefox?  My rpm logs
show Vera was last updated Jan 1, which is like 4 reboots ago (lots of
power outages lately), so that rpm is not the likely culprit.

The web forum textarea I mentioned still looks horrid, as its css is
specifying DejaVu Sans Mono, and my system does indeed have that font;
or maybe it's ignoring that and using the font css, not font family.

The firefox webdev inspector lets me see what css was selected for the
final font-family and font choices, but it still shows the list for
each.  Is there a way to see what font the browser actually chose from
the list?  I know it'll go through each one from first to last until it
finds one you have installed.  But how can you tell which one it
settled on?

The most annoying part isn't the font per se, it's that it's messing up
the line heights, space between characters and underlines, font
thickness/color, and the numbers appear to be from a completely
different font (but maybe same family) from the letters!

I can't just point firefox bug report page to the forum because the
textarea form is on a logged-in-only page.
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