Re: Firefox, fixed with fonts and Google Groups

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On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 07:37:25PM -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 01:57:12PM +1030, Tim wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 17:53 -0800, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> > > I've noticed this now on two separate Fedora 10 installations running
> > > Firefox 3.0.5.  Messages viewed within Google Groups are not showing
> > > up as fixed with text -- even when I have selected fixed with from the
> > > options.
> > >
> > > It works fine in Windows with both FF and IE, and an examination of
> > > the CSS shows that font-family: fixed-width, monospace; is being set,
> > > but it doesn't seem that Firefox is honoring this.
> > 
> > As another test point, it certainly works on Fedora 9 running Firefox
> > 3.0.5.
> > 
> > The HTML and CSS is sheer chaos to look through, though.  And my reading
> > of it, trying not to lose count of nesting, looks like it oughtn't to do
> > monospaced fonts, there.  It'd have to be some JavaScripting doing
> > further modifications, and that's not my forte.
> > 
> 
> I seem to recall it working fine in Fedora 9 as well.  Here's an ogg
> clip (warning 4MB) of what it looks like for me and shows how I can
> "fix" the problem via DOM Inspector:
> 
>   http://www.bludgeon.org/~rayvd/videos/firefox-google-groups.ogg
> 
> [rayvd@tinyox ~]$ rpm -q firefox
> firefox-3.0.5-1.fc10.i386
> 
> Ray

I set up another Fedora 10 machine and this problem does not occur.
Must be something with my Firefox/Mozilla profile I guess (I'd upgraded
from a previous Fedora on both systems where I was having issues).

Ray

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