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[dino99 <622176@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

outdated flavor, and firefox have had so many new releases.

** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  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

Status in firefox package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  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

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