Firefox and Epiphany crash after today's updates

Felix Miata mrmazda at ij.net
Sat Feb 2 07:51:07 UTC 2008


On 2008/02/01 23:15 (GMT+0100) Nicolas Mailhot apparently typed:

> Fractionnal point sizes are not rocket science,

One wouldn't think so, but exactly which apps permit selection of and
actually use sizes specified in fractional pt? NAICT, all GUI web browsers
round all font sizes to pixel integer multiples regardless of what they seem
to calculate to.

> there's no need to switch to a different unit (hardware
> specific even) just to up the precision.

The switch regarding mainstream mozilla apps is ancient history, and attempts
to reverse it via mozilla's bugzilla have been wontfixed.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=414427 seems more likely to
stand a chance of a fix, and is probably overdue. I'm surprised it hasn't
been marked a dupe of a much older bug.
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