codewiz51, 2008/08/29 08:42 This is just a running list of notes on issues I have with FireFox3.
- Fonts are too small. After upgrading the fonts are just tiny.
- Default font changed from Verdana to Arial. The upgrade changed my default font.
Administrator, 2008/09/26 10:19 Firefox upgraded to 3.02 today.
- Fonts are better, but not fixed. The Google ad fonts are too large, compared to how they render in FireFox 2. and IE 7.
- The address bar shows a completely different internet history compared to what was showing in FF 3 before the upgrade. I now have to type in a web site, and I have to type a lot more of the name before I see the match I am looking for.
- Regarding my blog, I found that most of the problem with font rendering differences between FireFox 3 and IE 7 were associated with the style sheet body element font declaration:
body {
background: #0094D6 url(img/bg.gif) repeat-x;
color: #466;
/* font: normal 62.5% "Verdana",sans-serif; */
font: normal 8pt "Verdana",sans-serif;
margin: 0;
} - By changing the font to a fixed point size, instead of a percentage, I was able to get both browsers to render my blog in roughly equivalent images.
- I had to relentlessly cycle through the style sheet and remove any ambiguous font size definitions or items inadvertently relying on font-size inheritence. (e.g. .content .postheader class)
- I also found it necessary to run the Windows XP Sp2 Powertoy for ClearType™ to tune up the font rendering for FireFox. I think you'll find the font rendering is fairly uniform now.
Administrator, 2008/09/28 13:37 Ultimately, despite my preconcieved notions of the better browser, I had to admit that for my purposes, IE 7 does a better job rendering fonts. I don't have time to learn all the nuances of web design and style sheets. Ultimately, timely and valuable content is what drives web traffic. There are only so many ways I can make a "cute", "attractive" and "pleasing to the eye" web site when I am spouting out code examples. Give me simple and readable. I want to spit out useful code and have it look the same to everyone. For the time being, I am surrendering. If it looks good in IE 7, then FireFox had better make it look good. I'm not spending more hours trying to figure out why.
codewiz51, 2008/09/29 20:42 I decided to try and reset my FireFox 3 profile, to see if there were any corrupted settings left over from the 2.0 Upgrade. I discovered a number of references to the command
firefox.exe -profilemanager. Executing this command from the run command opens the FireFox profile manager. I simply deleted my old profile and exited the profile manager. When I restarted FireFox, I had to download my add-ons. However, FireFox was properly rendering fonts after I deleted my profile.
Here are a couple of commands that may prove useful, along with information links.
- firefox -safe-mode
- firefox.exe -profilemanager
codewiz51, 2008/10/01 09:49 FireFox upgraded itself to 3.03 yesterday. I haven't noticed any changes. Maybe that is a good thing? Ever since I blew away my profile on my home PC, font rendering has been consistent. My home profile was upgraded from the 2.x version, so who knows, maybe something corrupted when I moved over the 3.x?