The fifth beta of Firefox has been released. "Mozilla Firefox 3 Beta 5 has been released for testing. The fifth beta of the next major Firefox version offers over 750 bug fixes over Beta 4, including improvements in user interface, location bar autocomplete, bookmark backup and restore, full page zoom and other new features based upon user feedback."
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Member since:2005-07-06
people mod me down cause i have a problem with firefox. god these OSS nazi's never cease to amaze me. Hurry mod me down before people here something isn't perfect.
anyway. I scaled it down and the text is still cut off but the fonts are no tiny and unreadable. the fonts are serif and monospace. Min font size is set to 10 (also tried up to 14)
Member since:2005-10-13
I found your original post rather hilarious, as Epiphany is using the exact same Gecko rendering engine that Firefox is (well, an older version). There is, by definition, nothing it can do that Firefox can't as far as rendering is concerned.
Looking at those pictures, it appears that Firefox is either using a different font or a larger size for some reason. Or maybe it's just some sort of bug causing that. I wouldn't be surprised if the Linux version is lagging behind the Windows/Mac ports, because they've really been focusing on those lately.
Member since:2006-01-24
I can't see why you would get modded down. that said I think the problem lies with the hinting and a badly formatted webpage. looking at the epiphany shot the hinting is awful but it helps squeezing the text together so that much more fits into the visible cell space.
I took a firefox 3 beta 5 screenshot from my xubuntu installation:
http://img221.imageshack.us/img221/6629/foxnewsow1.png
and here I have the pretty much the same font size as in your epiphany shot but with more readable hinting (wider spacing) on the text and as such it doesn't fit into the cell. again, I'd mainly chalk this up to very bad formatting on the original webpage, like in the following blurb "Sophie Monk, who dated Paris Hilton's beau, OK with nude scenes in new Winona Ryder movie", the word 'movie' isn't visible in either the epiphany shot you showed nor is it visible under Firefox on WinXP.
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2005-11-10
Try pressing Ctrl+0 to reset zoom to 100%.
You've got some kind of scaling going on, either in your OS, or in Firefox because it doesn't look like that for me on defaults.
I've begun to notice a pattern in the comments though - everybody having some kind of problem with Firefox is using Linux. Maybe the port is lagging behind?