On 2024-03-08 Hartmut W Sager wrote:
Furthermore, here's my Firefox settings "fonts, advanced ...":
Of those settings, the only one that might have been me is the Times New Roman for serif(ied) font.
Thanks Hartmut. I went in there and mines was set to firefox default which appears to be Bitstream Vera. I changed it to Liberation and now my minimal html page looks fine again.
I wonder why Vera would look all messed up in firefox? My rpm logs show Vera was last updated Jan 1, which is like 4 reboots ago (lots of power outages lately), so that rpm is not the likely culprit.
The web forum textarea I mentioned still looks horrid, as its css is specifying DejaVu Sans Mono, and my system does indeed have that font; or maybe it's ignoring that and using the font css, not font family.
The firefox webdev inspector lets me see what css was selected for the final font-family and font choices, but it still shows the list for each. Is there a way to see what font the browser actually chose from the list? I know it'll go through each one from first to last until it finds one you have installed. But how can you tell which one it settled on?
The most annoying part isn't the font per se, it's that it's messing up the line heights, space between characters and underlines, font thickness/color, and the numbers appear to be from a completely different font (but maybe same family) from the letters!
I can't just point firefox bug report page to the forum because the textarea form is on a logged-in-only page.