Yes, the same problem is still in effect as of Firefox 20.0 on all of my Ubuntu 12.04 LTS systems including a clean install.
The problem and a successful workaround are described well here: http://keramida.wordpress.com/2009/11/07/dejavu-condensed-as-default/ >From reading other bug reports and issue trackers, it appears that application teams (Mozilla and others) and GTK+ developers have pointed at each other, so the problem is stuck in the "probably won't fix" zone and has been for several years now. This is bad for a lot of users who find DejaVu Sans Condensed to be by far the clearest, most readable and comfortable font on their machine, especially for web browsing. I am sorry that I currently have to trick Firefox into recognizing this font by forcing a font substitution. At least it works, which is more than I can say for Chrome... thus far I have not discovered any way to make DejaVu Sans Condensed available in Chrome's font picker. That issue alone is completely constraining my choice of browsers. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to firefox in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/86689 Title: firefox does not recognize some font styles Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu: Incomplete Bug description: Binary package hint: firefox Firefox does not recognize certain font styles in the chrome or when rendering the page. For example, choosing "DejaVu Sans Bold" as the Application font in Gnome will cause the UI to use that font, but choosing "DejaVu Sans Condensed" will cause the UI to be rendered in "DejaVu Sans". ProblemType: Bug Date: Wed Feb 21 13:34:57 2007 DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04 Uname: Linux mpagon-laptop 2.6.20-8-generic #2 SMP Tue Feb 13 05:18:42 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/86689/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
