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rainbowdashc

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(Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

With the latest upgrade to Chromium, it appears that font rendering for tab names worsened slightly. (Unfortunately, I don't have any screenshots beforehand.) This was observed on Chromium 32, x86_64, with the latest versions of vanilla fontconfig and freetype2. I suspect this is an upstream bug, however, as similar issues occurred with Chrome/ium 33 builds.

ninian

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Registered: 2008-02-24

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

I suspect this is an upstream bug, however, as similar issues occurred with Chrome/ium 33 builds.

Yes indeed, it appears to be an upstream problem when you check the Chromium buglist and forums.
Looks quite horrible when I look at the tab titles on my system too!

Breakage

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Yeah, same here on x86_64. Although mine looks subjectively worse, look at that spacing.

Onyros

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Jeebus, it happened with my latest update as I was trying MATE, too, I thought it was related to some change MATE introduced in the font rendering, but now I see it's a general thing. It looks godawful, why doesn't it just follow the GTK theme, for instance?

Last edited by Onyros (2014-01-16 20:26:14)

cdown

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

I'm glad it's not just me -- I am also experiencing this after the upgrade today on x86_64. My fonts look exactly like that in Breakage's post.

The fonts in the first post, comparatively, don't look that bad to me...

gilmoreja

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Mine looks the same as Breakage's screencap as well.

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o_caino

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Same as Breakage's, but on i686

kelloco2

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

For me the same thing. Is this a bug or Chromium planned change?

jryan

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Same here.

LucetLux

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

I think mine just looks "different" I wouldn't call it worse.

battlepanic

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

The subject says it all.  Since upgrading from Chromium 31 to chromium 32 I have noticed that the font of tabs has changed  I find the new font looks bad.  Can I configure the tab font, giving it the previous appearance?  See the attached screenshots for details.

Before... (Chromium 31):

...and after (Chromium 32):

graysky

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Use the search button before posting in the future
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=175770

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battlepanic

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

My bad!

Obviously I didn't search hard enough.  Yikes.  Thanks for the pointer!

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Merging threads...

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kelloco2

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Maybe the developers will know. I suspect that it is possible that the new functionality. When you play a sound icon appears. This is useful, but the font is ugly.

rainbowdashc

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Maybe the developers will know. I suspect that it is possible that the new functionality. When you play a sound icon appears. This is useful, but the font is ugly.
http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/5466/y3vu.png

That feature is completely unrelated. Also, Aura (which has many known font rendering issues), won't ship till 33, so it can't be that, either.

Herbalist

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

same thing here after a fresh install of chromium,another thing I found but I'm not sure if it's related to chromium
when I search for videos on youtube the titles of the video that appear are huge and bold although chromium's fonts are not changed.

stee1rat

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

So, has anyone found a solution? Same problem here.

tylerl

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Here's the upstream bug: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issu … ?id=335651

Apparently related to the fact that they switched tab font rendering to Skia/Canvas instead of Pango. It's expected to be fixed with Aura, expected in 34 or 35 or 36... or sometime.

cris9288

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

So, has anyone found a solution? Same problem here.

my temporary solution was to install google-chrome-dev from the aur. I'll might check out chromium or google-chrome-stable when they are released with Aura, but the unstable version works fine.

tylerl

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Aura does in fact fix this. Top is 33, bottom is latest Chromium beta release (36).

kelloco2

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Is there any PKGBUILD for this?

karol

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Is there any PKGBUILD for this?

For what? Chromium 36? Have you checked the AUR?
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chro … owser-bin/ is one. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/chromium-nightly/ should work too.

kelloco2

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Thanks.

Roberth

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Re: (Tab name) font rendering in Chromium 32

Wasn't chromium 34 released so 35 has gone into beta now?

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