Bug 146198

Summary:	Fonts in the menus of Firefox are extremely small when using Firefox in Japanese
Product:	[openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1	Reporter:	Mike Fabian <mfabian>
Component:	Firefox	Assignee:	E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	shinkichi.yamazaki, tiwai
Version:	Beta 2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Found By:	Development	Services Priority:
Business Priority:		Blocker:	---
Marketing QA Status:	---	IT Deployment:	---

Description Mike Fabian 2006-01-27 16:33:26 UTC

When using Firefox in Japanese, the fonts in the Menus are extremely
small. Unreadably small on my screen.

Usually one can change the font size for the menus by editing ~/.gtkrc-2.0.
But although I have a *huge* font size set in ~/.gtkrc-2.0:

mfabian@magellan:~$ cat .gtkrc-2.0
gtk-font-name = "sans-serif 30"
gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"
mfabian@magellan:~$

this is ignored.

The file is read (seen in strace) but apparently the font size request
has no effect.

Starting Firefox not in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale but in en_US.UTF-8
locale fixes this, in en_US.UTF-8 locale the font size specified
in ~/.gtkrc-2.0 is really used.

After deleting the package "MozillaFirefox-translations", the font
size works OK again even in ja_JP.UTF-8 locale (but of course there
are no Japanese translations then).

Apparently something in the Japanese translation of Firefox
hardcodes the font size for the menus.

Comment 1 Mike Fabian 2006-03-16 10:30:19 UTC

Not reproducible anymore on STABLE.
→apparently FIXED.