google-chrome weirdness

[Tom Horsley]

Google-chrome has started rendering the "Oswald" web
font with all the characters in a string mostly on top
of one another, but only for my user.

See: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald

If I create a completely new user, log out and log back
in as new user, google-chrome works. That web page
above renders just fine.

If I merely rename ~/.config/google-chrome and run
google-chrome as my original user, it still screws up
the font.

So who knows where besides ~/.config/google-chrome
google-chrome will get information? Because something
about my user screws it up even when I try to start
from scratch with no saved profile.

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 20:38:31 -0400
Tom Horsley wrote:

>  So who knows where besides ~/.config/google-chrome
>  google-chrome will get information? Because something
>  about my user screws it up even when I try to start
>  from scratch with no saved profile. 
Amazing! I actually found it. ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
had this stuff in it (for years and years and years in
order to make fonts look better when fedora was going
through a long "spindly" phase for fonts):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

Renaming that file allows Oswald to render correctly.

What it is about Oswald (and no other fonts I checked)
that makes it screw up so badly, I have no idea.

It doesn't happen in firefox even though that fonts.conf
file would (I imagine) affect it as well.

[Tim]

On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 21:02 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  Amazing! I actually found it. ~/.config/fontconfig/fonts.conf
>  had this stuff in it (for years and years and years in
>  order to make fonts look better when fedora was going
>  through a long "spindly" phase for fonts):
>  
>  ...[snip]...
>
>  Renaming that file allows Oswald to render correctly.
>  
>  What it is about Oswald (and no other fonts I checked)
>  that makes it screw up so badly, I have no idea. 
My guess would be that the browser may have misidentified the font, and
it's being rendered with data from something wildly different.

e.g. Try rendering a 24 point font as if it were a 2 point font, and
I'm sure layout would be scrambled.

[Tim]

On Sat, 2019-06-01 at 20:38 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>  Google-chrome has started rendering the "Oswald" web
>  font with all the characters in a string mostly on top
>  of one another, but only for my user.
>  
>  See: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Oswald
>  
>  If I create a completely new user, log out and log back
>  in as new user, google-chrome works. That web page
>  above renders just fine.
>  
>  If I merely rename ~/.config/google-chrome and run
>  google-chrome as my original user, it still screws up
>  the font. 
It may have cached the site in a mangled manner.  Look in:

~/.cache/google-chrome/

[ToddAndMargo]

Hi Tom,

Not what you asked, but Chrome no longer supports
ad blockers to "enhance the user experience".  In
other words, to more effectively collect data/spy
on you.

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/19/05/31/2110257/google-struggles-t...

The alternative is Brave, which also uses the "Blink" engine.
Brave's claim to fame is that it has build in add and spy
blocking.  As such, it is very fast indeed.  It will
also import your Chrome profile.

http://brave.com

-T

Brave?? (was Re: google-chrome weirdness)

[Beartooth]

On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 21:46:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
	[....]
>  The alternative is Brave, which also uses the "Blink"
> engine.
>  Brave's claim to fame is that it has built in ad and spy blocking.  As
>  such, it is very fast indeed.  It will also import your Chrome profile.
>  
>  http://brave.com 
	I've been looking and wondering. "dnf install brave" fails with 

No match for argument: brave
Error: Unable to find a match

	From which (I THINK) Fedora isn't (yet?) supporting it. That 
implies two questions: is it in the works? and can people running it 
anyway comment on incidents if any of dependency hell? 

	Fwiw,  dnf update on a machine with Opera and Vivaldi installed 
(by downloading rpms and running rpm -ivh) checks Opera and Vivaldi repos 
and has been trouble-free so far.

-- 
Beartooth Implacable, curmudgeonly codger learning linux
I try to be paranoid, but I just can't keep up.

Brave?? (was Re: google-chrome weirdness)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2019-06-03 at 15:11 +0000, Beartooth wrote:
>  On Sat, 01 Jun 2019 21:46:47 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>  	[....]
>  > The alternative is Brave, which also uses the "Blink" engine.
>  > Brave's claim to fame is that it has built in ad and spy blocking.  As
>  > such, it is very fast indeed.  It will also import your Chrome profile.
>  > 
>  > http://brave.com
>  
>  	I've been looking and wondering. "dnf install brave" fails with 
>  
>  No match for argument: brave
>  Error: Unable to find a match
>  
>  	From which (I THINK) Fedora isn't (yet?) supporting it. That 
>  implies two questions: is it in the works? and can people running it 
>  anyway comment on incidents if any of dependency hell?  
It has its own repo. See
https://brave-browser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installing-brave.html#linux

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