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[firefox] gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled must remain false #31

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coopsmoss opened this issue Apr 10, 2016 · 16 comments
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@coopsmoss
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First of all, thanks a lot for these. Only issue is that when I do:

gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled = false
restart
gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled = true
restart
The problem with the fonts comes back

I'm using Firefox 45.0.1 on Ubuntu 15.10.
I'm just leaving it as false at the moment, not sure if it's having any detrimental affects.

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@13rac1
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13rac1 commented Apr 10, 2016

Thanks for creating an issue about this! The solution in the README worked for me and a number of others. Hmm... Now that you mention it, I realize while it fixes the actual problem, bold fonts are just far too bold with it set to true. I've actually got it set to false for that reason on my machine.

Are there relevant details you could add to @salty-horse 's issue: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1254245 ?

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@13rac1
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13rac1 commented Apr 10, 2016

True:
fontlist-true

False:
fontlist-false

The font weight seems doubled with it True.

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13rac1 commented Apr 13, 2016

This should be fixed according to: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1245811#c47

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13rac1 commented Apr 27, 2016

Firefox 46 was just released, but this regression isn't fixed until Firefox 47. I'll update the readme to say users of Firefox <47 should set this to false.

@salty-horse
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Firefox 47's planned release date is 2016-06-07.

@PhilippBaschke
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I am using the Firefox Developer Edition (currently at 48.0a2 (2016-05-10)) and the fonts only look right (like they used to look before) when I set gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled to false. 😢

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13rac1 commented May 11, 2016

Thanks @PhilippBaschke I'll update the readme.

@NoXPhasma
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When I set gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled to false fonts will be displayed correctly, but some sites will crash Firefox. For example Wikipedia always crashes Firefox. When I set gfx.font_rendering.fontconfig.fontlist.enabled back to true nothing crashes.

Linux Mint 17.3 Rosa - Firefox 46/47b

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13rac1 commented Jun 2, 2016

@NoXPhasma If you can reproduce this, especially without my font enabled, I suggest opening a new issue on the mozilla bug tracker.

@NoXPhasma
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@eosrei This does indeed happen even your font isn't installed. Should have check that before.

@NoXPhasma
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Just a heads up on my issue, this doesn't happen in Firefox 48.0a2 (2016-06-02).

@salty-horse
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I believe this is the fix for the crash: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1266341

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13rac1 commented Oct 2, 2016

Additional related bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306715 Thx @salty-horse

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perk11 commented May 19, 2017

Still had to change this setting on Firefox 53 for it to not change default font

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13rac1 commented May 20, 2017

@salty-horse
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This fix will break in Firefox 55 (can test with Nightly). The related changes:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1119128
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285533

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