[Bug 622176] [NEW] Firefox does not render Droid Sans Bold when font is loaded from the Google Web Fonts directory, if the font already exists on the computer

[Philip Kent]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: firefox

If a developer wishes to use the Droid Sans font on their website, they
may choose to load it using the Google Web Fonts directory, so visitors
who do not have the font installed can have the page rendered correctly.

However since there is a package in Ubuntu of the Droid fonts, it is
possible an Ubuntu user may already have the fonts installed.

If this is the case, then, whilst the web page correctly renders in the
Droid font, no bold fonts are rendered (if the bold font is loaded from
Google). If the fonts are not installed locally then the bold font
correctly loads.

In other web browsers, such as Arora or Epiphany, this issue does not
occur - though no Droid appears when the font is removed suggesting that
these dont support the font-face CSS parameter. This issue does not
occur in Google Chrome which does support font-face.

By the look of it, this is a problem with Firefox's handing of fonts. I
have tested this under openSUSE and Windows, and could not reproduce
this issue.

Expected: bold droid fonts load
Happened: no bold droid fonts

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-24.41-generic 2.6.32.15+drm33.5
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-24-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Aug 22 11:20:52 2010
FirefoxPackages:
 firefox 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-gnome-support 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 firefox-branding 3.6.8+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.10.04.1
 abroswer N/A
 abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_GB.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

** Affects: firefox (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid

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Firefox does not render Droid Sans Bold when font is loaded from the Google Web Fonts directory, if the font already exists on the computer
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