challenged confessions - marco: Firefox 3 still has this annoying...

Jan 26, 2009

marco:

Firefox 3 still has this annoying text-rendering bug.
This is the complete source of my test page:
<html><body>Look at the so/urce code to this.</body></html>
It converts o/ to ø, plus a few other similar bugs. Am I the only one seeing this?
This might be related to the Twitter random-spaces-in-words bug: does this say “for th e Underworld” in Firefox 3 for you?

Looks like the “o/” bug only happens on Macs. It renders fine on Windows and Linux.
The Twitter bug seems to be all over the place, some have it and some don’t with not much discernable reason. FF2 on Windows actually has the space somewhere else.
(Mac screenshots should be ready in a few minutes, there’s a big queue for them.)
Update: Marco, it looks like it’s only you.

Firefox 3 still has this annoying text-rendering bug.

This is the complete source of my test page:
<html>
<body>
Look at the so/urce code to this.
</body>
</html>
It converts o/ to ø, plus a few other similar bugs. Am I the only one seeing this?

This might be related to the Twitter random-spaces-in-words bug: does this say “for th e Underworld” in Firefox 3 for you?

Looks like the “o/” bug only happens on Macs. It renders fine on Windows and Linux.

The Twitter bug seems to be all over the place, some have it and some don’t with not much discernable reason. FF2 on Windows actually has the space somewhere else.

(Mac screenshots should be ready in a few minutes, there’s a big queue for them.)

Update: Marco, it looks like it’s only you.

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