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The width of text box in the web pages is wider than normal

Bug #292443 reported by Minqiang
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Mozilla Firefox
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The text box in a web page displays in an abnormal way. I have shown you in my picture, you can see it.

I found this bug in ubuntu8.10 and ubuntu7.10

网页上的文本框宽度太宽了，比正常的要宽很多。我在ubuntu8.10和 ubuntu7.10都发现这个bug

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Minqiang (ptpt52) wrote :
description: updated
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Anthony Noto (angusthefuzz) wrote :

Thank you for reporting this bug. I can confirm that this problem exists and is reproducible. The textbox using firefox-3 on ubuntu appears as it does in the screenshot. Using opera in ubuntu produces a textbox about half as long as the screenshot. Using firefox-3 in windows xp produces a text box that is perfectly aligned with the top links and is about a third as long as the screenshot.

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

please open a bug in bugzilla.mozilla.org against the "Core -> Layout" component and give us your bug id. Thanks!

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
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Minqiang (ptpt52) wrote : Re: [Bug 292443] Re: The width of text box in the web pages is wider than normal

what do you mean? what is my bug id and how can I give it to you?

2008/11/3 Alexander Sack <email address hidden>:
> please open a bug in bugzilla.mozilla.org against the "Core -> Layout"
> component and give us your bug id. Thanks!
>
> ** Changed in: firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu)
> Status: Confirmed => Triaged
>
> ** Also affects: firefox
> Importance: Undecided
> Status: New
>
> --
> The width of text box in the web pages is wider than normal
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/292443
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> of the bug.
>

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Chen Minqiang

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In , Anthony Noto (angusthefuzz) wrote :

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008101315 Ubuntu/8.10 (intrepid) Firefox/3.0.3

The textbox using firefox-3 on ubuntu appears as it does in the screenshot <http://launchpadlibrarian.net/19209463/bug.png>. Using opera in ubuntu produces a textbox about half as long as the screenshot. Using firefox-3 in windows xp produces a text box that is perfectly aligned with the top links and is about a third as long as the screenshot.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. View http://www.baidu.com in both windows and linux versions of firefox
Actual Results:
The text box is not aligned with the top navigation links in linux. In windows, the same text box is aligned perfectly with the top navigation links.

Expected Results:
Windows and Linux versions of firefox should display the text box perfectly aligned with the top nav links.

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/292443

Changed in firefox:
importance: Undecided → Unknown
status: New → Unknown
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Changed in firefox:
status: Unknown → New
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Mante (mante) wrote :

I can confirm this bug. Moreover it looks like happen only if the encoding id utf8. Trying a iso-8859-1 put the text bar size to default size.
This problem happens only when there is no css width applied to the text box but anyway affects several pages. Some pages become unbrowsable too. Need to be fixed.

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Trey Hunner (treyhunner) wrote :

I confirm this bug in Ubuntu Server 8.10 with Openbox. However, on most websites that this problem appears on, no matter what character encoding I select the problem persists.

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In , Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

the side uses absolute css metrics (margin .. 15px ...), which probably means they tuned their layout for win ... marking bug invalid

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Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

invalid as explained in upstream bug

Changed in firefox-3.0:
status: Triaged → Invalid
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Changed in firefox:
status: New → Invalid
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apurva (apurva) wrote :

This Bug should not be marked invalid, as its prevalent in most sites, and is happening on firefox 3.0 and 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) as well. The width of text boxes on prominent sites like google.com is stretched as well (See attached screenshot). This bug renders complex forms unusable on Firefox and is a serious issue for me.

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In , apurva (apurva) wrote :

This Bug should not be marked invalid, as its prevalent in most sites, and is happening on firefox 3.0 and 3.5 on Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty) as well. The width of text boxes on prominent sites like google.com is stretched as well (See attached screenshot). This bug renders complex forms unusable on Firefox and is a serious issue for me.

Screenshot: http://launchpadlibrarian.net/30855646/firefox_bug.png

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drr (drr) wrote :

I get the same problem with firefox-3.5 in ubuntu 9.10 beta 64bit. The text boxes appear too wide when I use custom font settings for web pages (Please see attached screenshots). This happens when I use Lucida fonts that I downloaded from http://ubuntu-debs.googlecode.com/files/macfonts.tar.gz. With other fonts, everything works perfect.

firefox:
  Installed: 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Candidate: 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
  Version table:
 *** 3.5.3+build1+nobinonly-0ubuntu3 0
        500 ftp://ftp.egr.msu.edu karmic/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Linux 2.6.31-11-generic #38-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 2 11:06:40 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

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Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Low
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