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Firefox 8 does not exhibit this problem.

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Title:
  Firefox 5.0 appplies wrong kerning with "FreeSans" font

Status in “firefox” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  The attached sample, firefoxfreefont.html, contains a text paragraph with the four letters a/ŭ/a/ŭ and some spacing. The first pair of letters has no spacing, so the letters should appear next to each other. Firefox puts them on the same place. The second pair has two non-breakable spaces between them, and Firefox displays them with a roughly normal distance.
  I would like to post a screen picture but cannot find a way to submit a second attachment. I will post it afterwards. If anybody cares I can also post the FreeSans.ttf file (from /usr/share/fonts/truetype/freefont).
  Of course this could be a buf in the FreeSans font but neither Opera nor Konqueror exhibit the problem.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.47-generic-pae 2.6.38.8
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic-pae i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Tue Aug  2 20:59:35 2011
  FirefoxPackages:
   firefox 5.0+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu0.11.04.2
   flashplugin-installer N/A
   adobe-flashplugin 10.2.153.1-0hardy1
   icedtea-plugin 1.1.1-0ubuntu1~11.04.1
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta i386 (20100406.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=eo:de_DE:de_AT:de_CH:en_AU:en_CA:en_GB:en_NZ:en_US:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=eo.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: firefox
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-30 (94 days ago)

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