On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 at 16:39:34 +0000, Kevin Chadwick wrote: > If you can reproduce it, I wonder if it only happens with downloaded > fonts. gfx.downloadable_fonts.enabled may test that?
It happens with installed fonts. I can reproduce it on demand with a page with a lot of links and a hit-a-hint extension which draws boxes over each link temporarily. Here's a screenshot showing the effect with the default fontconfig setup: http://i.imgur.com/mXJJZ9u.png Here's what it looks like normally, if I refresh the page, or switch to another workspace and back: http://i.imgur.com/IL4F7SC.png Since Ted reported it happening in Chrome as well, I figured it might be a Freetype issue. I tried reverting Freetype to 2.4.8 (-D2012-01-01 in CVS) but it made no difference in Firefox 19.0.2. I installed Chrome and can't seem to reproduce the issue with either Freetype, but I didn't use it for very long. I installed firefox36 and couldn't reproduce the problem on Freetype 2.4.8 or our current 2.4.11, so I just compiled Firefox 12.0 (-D2012-06-01) and it also looks fine. I'm compiling Firefox 17.0 now (-D2012-12-01) and will see how it looks. Are other people seeing this issue in non-Mozilla applications?
