Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: firefox-3.0
I recently started trying out firefox-3.0, and noticed a strange effect
in the URL bar from time to time. It looks like kerning is calculated
slightly differently when the URL bar is highlighted from when it isn't.
Specifically, when there's a capital T in the URL bar (possibly happens
with other letters too, but that's what I noticed most recently), the
horizontal space allocated for the T is wider when highlighted than when
not.
I've attached a small animation (created using byzanz) of what happens
when I press Ctrl-L to highlight the URL, followed by right-arrow to
unhighlight it, followed by Enter. You can see that when I press Enter
there's a rather disconcerting effect where it recalculates the kerning
and the last few characters of the URL "slide" back to their previous
position. In fact, if you step through the animation frame by frame in
the Gimp, you'll see in frames 5 through 7 that it actually animates
this transition so that both the old and the new kerning are briefly
visible. I'm sure this transition is useful in some other setting, but
in this case it's remarkably ugly.
Although I have a number of extra font packages installed for
development purposes, I believe I'm using Ubuntu 7.10's default fonts to
all intents and purposes.
** Affects: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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disconcerting URL bar effect: unstable font kerning
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/164569
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