GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 333801
Font family preference for Serif is broken
Last modified: 2006-03-19 21:40:21 UTC
Please describe the problem: The user preference on which font to use as serif is completely ignored. The standard system font called "Serif" is used instead. Steps to reproduce: 1. Edit, Preferences, Fonts, choose your default encoding, and under Serif choose a weird font 2. Paste the following into the address bar: data:text/html,<span style="font-family:serif">Test Actual results: The word Test is displayed with some system-wide Serif font Expected results: The word Test should be displayed with the chosen weird font Does this happen every time? Yes Other information: This is NOT http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=324717 This only seems to happen to serif and possibly monospace. Sans-serif, cursive, and fantasy are ok. This bug, coupled with the aforementioned 324717, means that most web pages are displayed with the system-wide "serif" font, which on some systems is ugly. This is actually Galeon 2.0.1 on Debian Sid, but the nearest version number in Bugzilla in 2.0. Galeon 2.0 didn't have this bug.
Hmm, I fail to see how this differs from bug 324717. For me, bug 324717 is summarized in the fact that galeon used a global serif/sans serif switch, and now needs a per-encoding/language serif/sans-serif switch (via the font.name.variable.$encoding prefs). If I set font.name.variable.x-western to serif in my prefs.js, your sample content is displayed with the configured serif font (font.name.serif.x-western).
Yes, this is almost certainly related *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 324717 ***