Jun 29 2008, 11:28 am
FireFox 3 has been a pain in the neck ever since I downloaded it. Please tell me I am not the only one.
I continually come across a nasty text rendering bug when using this browser. At first I expected to see this bug being written up all over the internet. But I never heard anyone else complain. So I threw up some screenshots of my issue on twitter, and came to find out that some other people did not have this issue with their install of FF3. So I completely removed FF3 and then re-downloaded it. Same problem.
What is the problem you ask? This:
This is what every single Google webpage looks like for me with FF3. Horrible. The kerning is completely messed up, the margins are all jacked up, and look at the links!!! Look at those underlines, unbelievable!
And it's not just Google:
CNN suffers here as well.
Even ThinkVitamin.com gets bitten by the bug.
Now the odd thing is that not all text shows up like this. Most websites show up completely normal. Like mine for example:
Nothing wrong with any of the text on my website at all. Shows up completely normal. And there are many other websites like this... Just look at the above screenshots. With the exception of Google, all the screenshots have text that shows up completely fine, with some text that is totally ruined by this bug.
So what's going on here? You got me. My guess is is has something to do with NOT applying enough CSS to the text. FF3 displays text horribly on my machines (Quad core G5 and an Intel Macbook Pro) by default. So if all you did was change the "color" in CSS, that wouldn't be enough and FF3 would force your text to look like crap. But if you applied a "font-size" property and a "margin"... FF3 would give in and decide to display your text like other normal browsers.
Even Mozilla themselves are not prone to this disease:
Yes, this is the kind of crap I deal with when using FF3.
All I can say is LONG LIVE SAFARI. In my personal opinion, I think every browser should be forcefully shut down, and Web Kit should be the browser we all use. Wouldn't that make things easier :)
Anyone else have this same problem with FireFox3?
Peace,
Drew
I continually come across a nasty text rendering bug when using this browser. At first I expected to see this bug being written up all over the internet. But I never heard anyone else complain. So I threw up some screenshots of my issue on twitter, and came to find out that some other people did not have this issue with their install of FF3. So I completely removed FF3 and then re-downloaded it. Same problem.
What is the problem you ask? This:
This is what every single Google webpage looks like for me with FF3. Horrible. The kerning is completely messed up, the margins are all jacked up, and look at the links!!! Look at those underlines, unbelievable!
And it's not just Google:
CNN suffers here as well.
Even ThinkVitamin.com gets bitten by the bug.
Now the odd thing is that not all text shows up like this. Most websites show up completely normal. Like mine for example:
Nothing wrong with any of the text on my website at all. Shows up completely normal. And there are many other websites like this... Just look at the above screenshots. With the exception of Google, all the screenshots have text that shows up completely fine, with some text that is totally ruined by this bug.
So what's going on here? You got me. My guess is is has something to do with NOT applying enough CSS to the text. FF3 displays text horribly on my machines (Quad core G5 and an Intel Macbook Pro) by default. So if all you did was change the "color" in CSS, that wouldn't be enough and FF3 would force your text to look like crap. But if you applied a "font-size" property and a "margin"... FF3 would give in and decide to display your text like other normal browsers.
Even Mozilla themselves are not prone to this disease:
Yes, this is the kind of crap I deal with when using FF3.
All I can say is LONG LIVE SAFARI. In my personal opinion, I think every browser should be forcefully shut down, and Web Kit should be the browser we all use. Wouldn't that make things easier :)
Anyone else have this same problem with FireFox3?
Peace,
Drew
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Everyone,
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Adam,
Great suggestion, but I don't know if that is possible. If my font's were messed up, they would be messed up in all applications; like Safari, Photoshop, etc. But the fonts are fine in every application, and I have not changed the fonts since FF2. So that means FF3 is the problem. If it is a font problem as you say (and I agree), FF3 would be the one with the issue. Not my fonts.
Oh btw Wall-e is AWESOME!
I am not upgrading yet... still FF2 on Mac.
Thanks for pointing this out.