Firefox rendering issues since 89.0 update

[Gottox]

The font does not resize when zooming with Ctrl++ and is much too small for hidpi displays.

Site: facebook.com

[Gottox]

If I remove the font family via devtools the font is scaled correctly.

[lonwillett]

I'm also seeing issues with a large number of websites (github included). Turning off the option "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of your selections above" is my workaround, but I would like a proper fix, or at least an understanding of what is going wrong.

[egorenar]

I have the same issue.

[marmeladema]

Same issue for me too.

[oreo639]

Edit: Consider reading below #31294 (comment)

What is the output of xbps-query -Rs xorg-fonts?
(If you remove xorg-fonts and all of it's dependencies, the issue should go away.)

There is also this section in the void handbook with a workaround of disabling bitmap fonts:
https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/graphical-session/fonts.html

[Gottox]

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Deleted, I had my 5 minutes again 🙄

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[Gottox]

@lonwillett @marmeladema github is actually fine for me.

[Gottox]

workaround:

xbps-remove font-adobe-100dpi font-adobe-75dpi xorg-fonts

[meator]

I have the same issue, everything was fine before I upgraded firefox to version 89. My github is messed up too.

[lonwillett]

What is the output of xbps-query -Rs xorg-fonts?

[*] xorg-fonts-7.6_5 Modular Xorg Fonts

Hasn't this been an issue for a long while?

It's new with ff 89 for me. Where I've looked, it seems like some of the fonts from font-adobe-* don't work; and probably others.

(If you remove xorg-fonts and all of it's dependencies, the issue should go away.)

This section was added to the void handbook specifically because of this issue:
https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/graphical-session/fonts.html

That does seem to work; i.e. disabling bitmap fonts with fontconfig; i.e. enabling the 70-no-bitmaps.conf for fontconfig. Although it seems like a bit of a heavy-handed kludge. (Or it should be the default configuration).

[egorenar]

What is the output of xbps-query -Rs xorg-fonts?
Hasn't this been an issue for a long while?
(If you remove xorg-fonts and all of it's dependencies, the issue should go away.)

This section was added to the void handbook specifically because of this issue:
https://docs.voidlinux.org/config/graphical-session/fonts.html

Thanks, this helps.

[hervyqa]

Guys, try this at home

ln -sf /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
ln -sf /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-rgb.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
ln -sf /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
ln -sf /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/50-user.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
ln -sf /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

[stnby]

Can we guys revert this broken version of Firefox back?

[Duncaen]

Can we guys revert this broken version of Firefox back?

No, this version fixes security issues we are not going to revert a browsers version because some font setups are broken.

[PurpleVsGreen]

I put this in userContent.css:

@font-face {
	font-family: Courier;
	src: local("DejaVu Sans Mono");
}

@font-face {
	font-family: Helvetica;
	src: local("DejaVu Sans");
}

@font-face {
	font-family: Times;
	src: local("DejaVu Serif");
}

It goes in a (new) directory called chrome (lol) inside the FF profile directory. It can be opened with a button in about:support. In about:config, toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets has to be true.

[stnby]

Can we guys revert this broken version of Firefox back?

No, this version fixes security issues we are not going to revert a browsers version because some font setups are broken.

I can't even read your reply on that browser :D

[arp242]

Also see: #25584

Installing the fixed fonts generally causes issues because some software may select them with the font selection wizandry, and has for years. It's not really a new issue or unique to Firefox 89 as such, although Firefox probably could fix it, it'll probably break somewhere sooner or later again.

I'm not sure if installing them by default in xorg/xorg-fonts is still a good default, as was mentioned in the other issue. Maybe some old stuff like xeyes or whatnot might break though, but I doubt many people will care and we can add dependencies if need be. There's also some other stuff like xterm that's a bit more common; I don't know what its defaults are these days.

Either way, doing some work on that seems like the best long-term fix.

[arp242]

And another: #16573

[Unixware]

just FYI there is no such issue with the dev version of the firefox (version 90)..

[Duncaen]

just FYI there is no such issue with the dev version of the firefox (version 90)..

Is this actually comparable because you've build it with the same system dependencies void uses or does it mozillas binary that statically links a lot of things?

[Unixware]

nope its the one from Mozilla...

[sirn]

For anyone getting this issue after 89.0, this seems to be a regression in Firefox upstream caused by a new default. Turning off gfx.e10s.font-list.shared fixed the issue in my case. This would still use bitmap Helvetica font if it's installed and used at certain font size, but it will now scale properly. See also: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1714318

[HadetTheUndying]

gfx.e10s.font-list.shared

How do i get to this setting as I can't find it by searching in Firefox's search in settings?

[Duncaen]

about:config

[mtbc]

Looks to be fixed in 89.0.1 - https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1714282
Sorry if I missed something in above discussion, it's too tiny for me to read!

[ahesford]

Is this matter resolved with newer Firefox packages?

[stnby]

Is this matter resolved with newer Firefox packages?

Seems like, we can probably close this issue.

[StreetStrider]

It happens for me today. The solution was to disable bitmap fonts as described here: https://www.reddit.com/r/voidlinux/comments/fa9wyk/solution_for_non_antialiased_fonts_in_firefox_and/

ln -s /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf
fc-cache -fv