Closed Bug 1714610 Opened 3 years ago Closed 3 years ago

Scaling fails, font is smaller than before

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(Core :: Layout: Text and Fonts, defect)

Firefox 89
defect

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1714282

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(Reporter: john, Unassigned)

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User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:89.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/89.0

Steps to reproduce:

Visited, eg. https://news.yahoo.com or https://guides.github.com/features/mastering-markdown/

Actual results:

The font is very small and does not seem to respond to scaling commands.
See the attached screenshots at various scales.
The page layout does scale, just the fonts don't follow.

Expected results:

Normal scaling

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Screenshot at 50%

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Screenshot at 70%

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Screenshot at 100%

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Screenshot at 150%

Attached image Screenshot_200%.png (deleted) —

Screenshot at 200%

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Layout: Text and Fonts' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Component: Untriaged → Layout: Text and Fonts
Product: Firefox → Core

I guess your system is configured to use a bitmap font by default, in which case this is bug 1714282. You should be able to work around it by setting gfx.e10s.font-list.shared to false in the about:config settings page (and then quit/restart Firefox).

Yes, Jonathan - thanks, that did it. Thanks!
(The scaling worked before, so I guess updating FF changed this parameter, even though I'm using the same profile).

Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 3 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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