Fonts on google search page in Firefox suddenly becomes bigger?

shallpion · 2014-03-02 20:58:29

Hi All,

Recently I noticed that the fonts used in google search page (which I think to be Arial) suddenly became bigger (especially taller), but only in firefox. I am using infinality-patched fontconfig and freetype2 but to rule out the possibility that those patches broke I did the following things:

1. Roll back to the original fontconfig, freetype2 provided by the official repository
2. Use firefox --safe-mode to disable all plugins/addons

But the issue remained. I did an update in the last week but a careful look at the pacman.log didn't reveal any clue, I didn't see any possible font-related packged was updated. Also this issue only affects the pages on google search page in firefox. As a comparison, the fonts in chromium or opera looks normal.

http://pasteboard.co/14Mj2KOX.png (this free image link may expire after some time)

It doesn't look terrible after I tweaked Arial in fontconfig a little, but still quite too large.

So I highly suspect it was something done by google which triggered this issue. But I am not sure. Is there anyone else ran into this trouble? Thanks!

Last edited by shallpion (2014-03-05 03:56:44)

shallpion · 2014-03-02 21:06:01

I just cleared all the cookies/cache and everything is back to normal... Probably a corrupted cookies or cacahe...

GE · 2014-03-02 21:08:35

The same here, even on Windows 8.

shallpion · 2014-03-05 03:57:29

Suddenly the problem came back This time removing cookies/cache did not work. Then I went to chromium and found it changed also. It appears to be something done on google side

Last edited by shallpion (2014-03-05 04:00:14)

thiagowfx · 2014-03-05 04:07:02

What a coincidence, I noticed this change just a few hours ago (on Chromium). Yeah, I think google has changed it, maybe we'll see some websites informing about this soon.

shallpion · 2014-03-05 04:23:56

I am very sad because I use google search a lot and I hate the current Arial apperance. I tweaked fontconfig for a while but didnt find anything satisfactory.

thiagowfx · 2014-03-05 04:40:13

I've just noticed www.google.com.br is unchanged. These new fonts are only found on www.google.com (and, consequently, encrypted.google.com too).

Last edited by thiagowfx (2014-03-05 04:40:57)

shallpion · 2014-03-05 04:44:35

I changed arial from hintfull to hintslight, looks slightly better but still I wish it could go back

http://pbrd.co/1fGknWZ

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Fonts on google search page in Firefox suddenly becomes bigger?

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