Browser: Mozilla 1.4, Win98 (Javascript/Cookies enabled) Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts has the following changes from the default Proportional: Serif (actually, I forget if this was the default already) Serif: Garamond Size (pixels): 18 1. Type about:plugins in the location box and hit enter 2. The list of plugins is displayed, and all of them show garbled text for the dll file name. Expected result -- the text should appear normal. I've noticed this for a long time (since 1.2 I think, if not earlier). This bug may be similar to 181010, but I'm not sure. Also, apologies if the component chosen for this bug was not the right one.. I'll attach a screenshot of the about:plugins page that demonstrates this problem.

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On second thought, this does look like a layout bug.... Bharat Kumar, if you save the about:plugins page and open it as a file, do you see the same problem?

I had this bug some time ago, but only on one of my two computers. IIRC the culprit was a file in the profile, but I don´t remember which one. I saved the output of the about:plugin to a floppy, to compare, and display on the other computer. If I find this floppy, I could tell you more. Maybe the CSS was changed by installing an extension? chrome://communicator/skin/plugins.css

Boris, yes, the problem still happens if I save the page to a file and then view it. I messed around with the generated HTML/CSS a bit and was able to come up with a reduced testcase. I'll attach the corr. HTML and CSS files. Hopefully this will be useful.

Some additional comments about the reduced testcase. If I remove the outer div from the HTML file, the problem disappears. If I change the font-style for span.label from "italic" to "normal" or "bold", the problem disappears. Oh and I just found out that the style rule for "body" in the CSS file doesn't make a difference if its removed, so it need not be in the testcase..

This seems to not be a problem on Linux; is this a win32 text measurement bug?

Looks like bug 94519

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This is provoked by the bad windows' fonts MS Sans Serif, MS Serif and all the other fonts in windows\fonts directory which has a .fon extension. Those fonts takes up much more space than the normal when they're set as italic ; still this seems not to explain the bug, as if a font takes up more space, the text following should slide forward such as to not overcoming the preceding text (which is what happens). It could be a mozilla bug in managing those fonts. Explanations: chrome://communicator/skin/plugins.css generally has font:message-box set for the plugins' table; 1st thing: where does this attribute comes from? it's not defined either in css 2.x or in 3.0 working drafts. 2st: most mozilla themes (but not classic and modern) has span.label{font-style:italic} in chrome://communicator/skin/plugins.css; if you use classic or modern, or some other theme which has not that setting, you'll see that the bugs doesn't subsist; anyway, with all themes, try changing your message-box font from the windows settings, most windows predefined themes use MS Sans Serif, change it with a truetype font such as Arial or Gill Sans and the bug disappears.

I'm sorry, I was wrong, the message-box value exists. (I also mistook to write, what seemed strange to me was the <em>property</em> <em>value</em>. anyway...

This bug is a duplicate of #94519: note the div#outside{text-align: justify} in chrome://communicator/skin/plugins.css; it's essential for the bug's occuring as much as the font-family.

As I told in comment #4, I had exactly this bug in one of my computers. Could it be that deleting localstore.rdf solved my problem? Localstore grows and grows ...

A workaround was done for the Modern theme 2002-11-21 in bug 174072 *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94519 ***

Hermann Schwab: To solve the problem just use another theme such as modern or classic. Otherwise, you should change the font used by windows in message-boxes, for example with Arial, or modify manually the chrome://communicator/skin/plugins.css of your favourite theme by changing the used font, removing span.label{font-style:italic} or adding to that text-align: left.