The Official 20170809 builds are out

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The Official 20170809 builds are out

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Previous Nightly Builds thread 20170808

The Official 20170809 NIGHTLY builds are out
The Official Firefox 56 Beta 1 builds are out

Previous NIGHTLY: 20170808 (Fx 57.0a1)
Previous BETA: 20170804 (Fx 55.0 RC3)

Tinderbox Builds
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Release Notes: NIGHTLY | BETA
Changelogs: NIGHTLY | BETA


Fixed:
  1. NIGHTLY +118
  2. #1374024
  3. #1378207
  4. #1388228 [Core:Audio/Video: Playback]-Move some members from MediaDecoder to ChannelMediaDecoder [Uns][]
  5. #1384435 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-Stylo: Size labels missing on hover in webpack-bundle-analyzer [Lin][]
  6. #1384120 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-Stylo: image flickers during mouseover triggered fade on fluentcpp.com [Uns][]
  7. #1374233 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: Clamp negative interpolated values for non-negative properties while using negative timing functions [Uns][]
  8. #1387953 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: Crash in mozalloc_abort | abort | core::option::expect_failed | geckoservo::glue::Servo_HasAuthorSpecifiedRules [All][]
  9. #1387948 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: Interpolation of font-weight is not correct in test_transitions_per_property.html [Uns][]
  10. #1388319 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: Mark ServoStyleSet dirty in Init [Uns][]
  11. #1379577 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: computed style indexed property access to custom property names is intermittently wrong [Uns][]
  12. #1382137 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: make 'list-style-type' animatable [Uns][]
  13. #1366163 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: rendering of <video controls> and <audio controls> is wrong [Uns][]
  14. #1363601 [Core:DOM: Content Processes]-Crash in mozilla::ipc::MessageChannel::Clear from ~PContentParent() [Win][[e10s-multi:?]]
  15. #1383978 [Core:DOM: Content Processes]-Update child process name on ContentChild::RecvRemoteType so about:memory process names aren't "Web Content" for webextensions process, etc. [Uns][[e10s-multi:+]]
  16. #1388119 [Core:DOM: Events]-Drop support for ErrorEvent and PopStateEvent in createEvent [Uns][]
  17. #1388069 [Core:DOM: Events]-Support createEvent("FocusEvent") [Uns][]
  18. #1382869 [Core:DOM: Security]-CSP in <meta> tag of unrendered document leaks to rendered document. [Uns][[domsecurity-active]]
  19. #1377377 [Core:DOM]-Blocking on reading in string bundle to report error message to console slows down Facebook group page load [All][[qf:p1]]
  20. #1362075 [Core:DOM]-Correct window.open() URL failure exception [Uns][]
  21. #1350637 [Core:DOM]-PStorage::Msg_Preload sync IPC takes too long [Uns][[qf:p1]]
  22. #1374460 [Core:DOM]-Remove code for showModalDialog [Uns][]
  23. #1388132 [Core:DOM]-Telemetry for XMLDocument.async to gauge feasibility of removal [Uns][]
  24. #1386798 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Add profiler markers for a11y events [Win][]
  25. #1386836 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Make a nsACString overload of nsAccessibilityService::GetStringEventType [Uns][]
  26. #1060051 [Core:Editor]-(nsIEditor-builtin) Make nsIEditor and related interfaces builtin classes [All][]
  27. #1386960 [Core:Editor]-Text in input is garbled/overlapping/corrupted/not rendered correctly [All][]
  28. #1387945 [Core:Editor]-Use nsIContent for CreateAnonymousElement [Uns][]
  29. #1387834 [Core:Event Handling]-Remove @deprecated nsIDOMWindowUtils.WHEEL_EVENT_CAUSED_BY_PIXEL_ONLY_DEVICE [Uns][]
  30. #1386495 [Core:Gecko Profiler]-Include event timeStamp with DOMEvent marker [Uns][]
  31. #1387381 [Core:General]-Remove nsXPIDLString local variables [All][]
  32. #1385101 [Core:Graphics: Layers]-Asynchronous paints should hold a ref to backing TextureClients [Uns][]
  33. #1388254 [Core:Graphics: Layers]-Fix borrowed DrawTarget's transform of DXGITextureData. [Uns][]
  34. #1385029 [Core:Graphics: Text]-Cache ScaledFonts in gfxFont::GetScaledFont [Uns][[gfx-noted]]
  35. #1387455 [Core:Graphics: WebRender]-Crash in mozilla::layers::PaintItemByDrawTarget [Win][]
  36. #1380979 [Core:Graphics: WebRender]-Enable DXGITextureHostD3D11 usage with WebRender [Uns][]
  37. #1386080 [Core:Graphics]-Make DrawTarget thread safe RefCountable [Uns][]
  38. #1355746 [Core:HTML: Parser]-Parser should use idle dispatch and not a timer for background tabs [Uns][[qf:p1]]
  39. #1347800 [Core:Internationalization]-Create Localization API for Gecko [Uns][]
  40. #1333980 [Core:Internationalization]-Land L10nRegistry [Uns][]
  41. #1347801 [Core:Internationalization]-Land MessageContext in Gecko [Uns][]
  42. #1387535 [Core:JavaScript Engine: JIT]-2.14 - 7.57% a11yr / damp / tart / tcanvasmark / tsvgr_opacity / tsvgx (linux64, windows10-64, windows7-32) regression on push bbe6f10263b955dd1a4add95089b3da6ab3ee602 (Thu Aug 3 2017) [Uns][]
  43. #1377566 [Core:JavaScript Engine: JIT]-IonBuilder::ensureDefiniteTypeSet is not used [Uns][]
  44. #1388110 [Core:JavaScript Engine: JIT]-UnsafeSetReservedSlot self-hosting intrinsic is less safe than expected [Uns][]
  45. #1387394 [Core:JavaScript Engine: JIT]-irregexp::InterpretCode: don't heap-allocate |registers| [Uns][]
  46. #1083476 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-Add console warnings for JS1.7 legacy generators [All][]
  47. #1382449 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-Assertion failure: compiler.cx()->isExceptionPending(), at js/src/irregexp/RegExpEngine.cpp:1793 [Lin][[jsbugmon:update,bisect]]
  48. #1083470 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-Disable SpiderMonkey support for E4X for-each [All][[DocArea=JS]]
  49. #1383053 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-Remove unused constant gStackChunkSize [Uns][]
  50. #1386680 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-irregexp: reduce size of initial evaluation stack [Uns][]
  51. #1379306 [Core:Layout: Tables]-Position absolute not work as expected in table with border collapse [Uns][[parity-chrome][webcompat]]
  52. #1385929 [Core:Layout: Web Painting]-Find a way to prevent duplicate gfxContext::Save/Restore [Uns][[qf]]
  53. #1379344 [Core:Layout: Web Painting]-nsDisplayWrapList iterates over its children twice in UpdateBounds, which is very cache-unfriendly [All][]
  54. #1385178 [Core:Layout]-Decoded data allocation in SyncLoadFontData shouldn't be infallible [Uns][]
  55. #1385395 [Core:Layout]-nsTextFrame::CharacterDataChanged() uses content properties that are expensive to access [Uns][]
  56. #1380154 [Core:Networking: DNS]-Improve Effective TLD service lookups [Uns][[necko-would-take]]
  57. #1387285 [Core:Networking: HTTP]-Intermittent /fetch/api/redirect/redirect-schemes.html,/XMLHttpRequest/send-redirect-bogus.htm | application crashed [@ MOZ_CrashOOL] [Uns][[necko-active][PBg-HTTP-M4]]
  58. #1377206 [Core:Networking: HTTP]-Set DontThrottle class of service flag on background audio downloads [Uns][[necko-active]]
  59. #1382178 [Core:Networking]-Crash in mozilla::net::nsHttpChannel::ContinueProcessResponse2 [Win][[necko-active]]
  60. #1388160 [Core:Networking]-Disable predictor prefetch (again!) [Uns][[necko-active]]
  61. #1372656 [Core:Security: PSM]-load loadable roots on a background thread [Uns][]
  62. #1388545 [Core:Security: Process Sandboxing]-PulseAudio regressions from filesystem read restrictions [Lin][sb+]
  63. #1322024 [Core:Security: Process Sandboxing]-Remove com.apple.windowserver.active from the content process Mac sandbox [Uns][sb+]
  64. #1388172 [Core:Security: Process Sandboxing]-[Mac] Remove access to "com.apple.window_proxies" from the content sandbox [Mac][sb+]
  65. #1385332 [Core:Security: Process Sandboxing]-[mac] Remove com.apple.pluginkit.pkd access from content process [Mac][sb+]
  66. #1387233 [Core:Security: Process Sandboxing]-[mac] restrict ipc-posix-shm permissions in content [Mac][]
  67. #1387570 [Core:Security: Process Sandboxing]-remove access to com.apple.cache_delete mach service [Mac][sb+]
  68. #1386664 [Core:WebVR]-Add "Knuckles" string id for SteamVR Knuckles controllers [Uns][]
  69. #1382114 [Core:WebVR]-Update openvr to 1.0.9 [Uns][[third-party-lib-audit]]
  70. #1387802 [Core:Widget: Win32]-Remove [deprecated] methods from nsITaskbarPreviewController [Uns][]
  71. #1367416 [Core:Widget: Win32]-WinTaskbar::Initialize() causes a library to be loaded on the main thread during startup [Win][[qf:p1][tpi:+][fce-active]]
  72. #1387702 [Core:XPCOM]-Crash in mozilla::AbstractThread::DispatchDirectTask [And][[clouseau]]
  73. #1387682 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Screenshots missing when thumbnailer Promise is garbage collected [Uns][]
  74. #1387580 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Some top sites never get screenshots of redirected pages [Uns][]
  75. #1387694 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Top frecent sites query should dedupe to the more frecent rev_nowww [Uns][]
  76. #1385733 [Firefox:Bookmarks & History]-"bookmark all tabs" doesn't save most tabs from 2017-07-26 nightly or earlier [Uns][[fxsearch]]
  77. #1385083 [Firefox:Bookmarks & History]-History button (and history panel in library, after bug 1354117) doesn't show the Recent History [Uns][[photon-structure]]
  78. #1388128 [Firefox:Developer Tools: Debugger]-Debugger does not remove some breakpoints [Uns][]
  79. #1386821 [Firefox:Developer Tools: Graphic Commandline and Toolbar]-Developer toolbar not displayed when firefox first starts up [Uns][]
  80. #1382025 [Firefox:Developer Tools: Netmonitor]-'Transferred' size in Network panel does not include HTTP headers [Uns][]
  81. #1386525 [Firefox:Developer Tools: Shared Components]-devtools reps: update bundle to v0.12.0 [Uns][]
  82. #1387122 [Firefox:Developer Tools]-Remove all useless import: Promise = require("promise") [Uns][]
  83. #1387123 [Firefox:Developer Tools]-Replace all usages of require(promise).defer by require(devtools/shared/defer).defer [Uns][]
  84. #1387497 [Firefox:Developer Tools]-dt-addon-tests: update specificity of selector in firebug-theme.css [Uns][]
  85. #1387477 [Firefox:Developer Tools]-report source fetch failures to the web console [Uns][]
  86. #1386800 [Firefox:Downloads Panel]-Photon download toolbar icon progressbar should progress from right to left on RTL builds [Uns][[reserve-photon-animation]]
  87. #1382899 [Firefox:Downloads Panel]-Reduce Promise overhead in the DownloadLegacy.js progress events [Uns][[qf:p3]]
  88. #389565 [Firefox:File Handling]-Remove nsIExternalProtocolService::LoadUrl [Mac][]
  89. #1291331 [Firefox:Installer]-Windows 10 start menu tile doesn't always use updated settings in firefox.VisualElementsManifest.xml [Uns][[reserve-photon-animation]]
  90. #1371195 [Firefox:Migration]-Preserve Form Autofill profiles during a Firefox Refresh/Reset [All][[form autofill:MVP]]
  91. #1387987 [Firefox:Preferences]-List header in the new notification permission dialog scrolls with list items [Uns][]
  92. #1382135 [Firefox:Preferences]-Remove all colon signs on sub-dialogs. [Uns][[photon-preference]]
  93. #1361957 [Firefox:Preferences]-Update new icons to match Photon spec [Uns][[photon-preference]]
  94. #1387650 [Firefox:Shell Integration]-Associate json files with Firefox on OS X [Mac][]
  95. #1387769 [Firefox:Tabbed Browser]-Difficult to scroll back to current tab, if it it scrolled out of view (make all tabs dropdown scroll selected tab into view when clicked) [Uns][]
  96. #1387737 [Firefox:Theme]-Regression: Changing theme breaks default theme [Uns][]
  97. #1366555 [Firefox:Theme]-Remove MOZ_PHOTON_THEME ifdefs and non-MOZ_PHOTON_THEME code [Uns][[photon-visual][p1][57]]
  98. #1387689 [Firefox:Theme]-[macOS] Close button is white on heartbeat-style notification bar on current nightly [Uns][[photon-visual][p3]]
  99. #1388087 [Firefox:Theme]-new nightly logo is oddly placed on "about nightly" window [Uns][]
  100. #1387182 [Firefox:Toolbars and Customization]-Toolbar icons "shaking" if holding an icon over another, while in customization mode on RTL builds [Uns][[photon-structure]]
  101. #1382579 [Firefox:Tours]-UITour should support showMenu, showInfo, showHighlight on the Page action Panel [Uns][[photon-onboarding]]
  102. #553869 [Toolkit:Add-ons Manager]-XPIProvider's onUpdateFinished uses error codes not defined in AddonManager [All][[lang=js][good first bug]]
  103. #1358960 [Toolkit:Form Manager]-Exclude "united" string when applying "address-level1" regular expression [Uns][[form autofill:M3]]
  104. #1384185 [Toolkit:Form Manager]-[Form Autofill] Autofill triggered when available values for form fields <3 [All][[form autofill]]
  105. #1388166 [Toolkit:Password Manager]-Bug 1266836 introduced toolkit/browser dependency (breaks http auth on XUL apps) - follow up [Uns][]
  106. #1388250 [Toolkit:Places]-Remove old sync isBookmarked and getBookmarkedURIFor APIs from nsINavBookmarksService [Uns][]
  107. #1388570 [Toolkit:Safe Browsing]-The Safe Browsing advisory title should not include a period [Uns][]
  108. #1375008 [Toolkit:Telemetry]-Prioritize submission of Health ping [Uns][]
  109. #1379125 [Toolkit:Telemetry]-Support recording discarded pings with Health Ping in all available places. [Uns][]
  110. #1383210 [Toolkit:Telemetry]-Try to precompute the bucket range [Uns][[qf:p1]]
  111. #1379145 [Toolkit:Telemetry]-Use Policy in TelemetrySend.jsm to set up/reset custom timeout [Uns][]
  112. #1382819 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: Experiments]-Experiment names must be lower case [Uns][]
  113. #1387899 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: Frontend]-Cache browserAction/pageAction icon data for startup [Uns][]
  114. #1387902 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: Frontend]-Don't attempt to localize browserAction widget properties [Uns][]
  115. #1387789 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: General]-Convert ExtensionTabs.jsm to an API script [Uns][]
  116. #1370716 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: General]-Error on console when browserAction button is pressed with no background script [Uns][triaged]
  117. #1387898 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: General]-Remove unnecessary uses of EventEmitter.decorate [Uns][]
  118. #1387907 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: General]-Store computed module data in the startup cache [Uns][]
  119. #1386533 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: Request Handling]-HttpObserverManager.canModify throws breaking WaybackMachine add-on [Uns][]
  1. Partial Landings/Diagnostic Patches:
  2. #1381844 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-2.92% quantum_pageload_amazon (windows7-32) regression on push e9ec92fd4f47d69cec602e81bb283d045b6bd87a (Sat Jul 15 2017) [Uns][]
  3. #1363200 [Core:JavaScript Engine]-Change JSAPI to distinguish realms and compartments [Uns][]
  1. Nightly 56 -> 56 Beta 1 Changelog +27
  2. #1371657
  3. #1385112
  4. #1385822
  5. #1386457 [Cloud Services:Screenshots]-Update Screenshots to version 10.10.0 [Uns][]
  6. #1387917 [Core:Audio/Video: Playback]-Turn on the pref "media.block-autoplay-until-in-foreground" by default [Uns][]
  7. #1386263 [Core:Canvas: WebGL]-Perma failure when 56 merges to beta application crashed [@ nsLayoutUtils::SurfaceFromElement(mozilla::dom::HTMLVideoElement *,unsigned int,RefPtr<mozilla::gfx::DrawTarget> &)] for gl and mda on Windows 8 [Uns][gfx-noted]
  8. #1381731 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: Assertion failure: removedCount <= gUnusedAtomCount, at /home/ikezoe/central/xpcom/ds/nsAtomTable.cpp:432 [Uns][]
  9. #1382568 [Core:CSS Parsing and Computation]-stylo: crash in Servo_ResolveStyle loading Twitter [Uns][]
  10. #1384560 [Core:Disability Access APIs]-Annotate crash reports with accessibility client information [Uns][aes+]
  11. #1387211 [Core:DOM: Service Workers]-avoid potential deadlock with hybrid event target when shutting down a worker [Uns][]
  12. #1386182 [Core:Graphics]-Should set FeatureState after EnableByDefault() in gfxWindowsPlatform::InitializeD3D11Config [Win][]
  13. #1381016 [Core:Networking: HTTP]-Youtube Live video stops after about 5-10 minutes [Win][[necko-active][spdy]]
  14. #1385716 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Add geo-based sites/stories, CSP tag and bug fixes to Activity Stream [Uns][]
  15. #1386314 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Add default icons, enable snippets and bug fixes to Activity Stream [Uns][]
  16. #1386737 [Firefox:Activity Streams: Newtab]-Fix broken top sites with pinned links lacking title for Activity Stream [Uns][]
  17. #1387626 [Firefox:General]-Ship e10s-multi to 100% of eligible users on beta [Uns][]
  18. #1386560 [Firefox:Preferences]-The Firefox Account header should not be highlighted on search result page. [Uns][[photon-preference]]
  19. #1325902 [Firefox:Security]-Increase visibility of container highlight on tabs [Uns][[userContextId][domsecurity-active]]
  20. #1386575 [Firefox:Theme]-Photon customization-header styles get (presumably) spilled into cedar/56 [Uns][[reserve-photon-structure][p2]]
  21. #1386337 [Firefox:Toolbars and Customization]-this.mainViewNode is null error is causing major test failures on mozilla-beta and Cedar [Uns][]
  22. #1387231 [Toolkit:Application Update]-Backout LZMA and SHA384 along with the mar generation script changes on 56 Beta (will reland for 56 Beta 3). [Uns][]
  23. #1387004 [Toolkit:Form Manager]-[Form Autofill] Collect information on how many people enable credit card Autofill [All][[story][form autofill:M4][autofill-metrics]]
  24. #1385090 [Toolkit:General]-Pass Remote Pages instance from AboutNewTab on override [Uns][]
  25. #1385396 [Toolkit:Telemetry]-Calling setExperimentActive forces graphics initialization [Uns][[qf:p1]]
  26. #1380449 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: General]-Propagating clonable console message args to the parent process causes huge performance problems [Uns][]
  27. #1385864 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: Request Handling]-Web extension with "chrome://favicon/" permissions in manifest breaks webrequest [Uns][]
  28. #1375490 [Toolkit:WebExtensions: Untriaged]-Alerts do not work correctly in OOP popup browsers [All][]

Nightly 57 fixes since 20170802 (Gecko 56) ~445
Beta 56 fixes since 20170613 (Gecko 55) ~2624

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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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Is there a bug for this ?
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Mockup for compact theme seems to have more compacted buttons as in the current Nightly.
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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The tab bar is still really slow to scroll horizontally - does anyone know if there is a bug raised on this?
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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Noscript is broken in today's build.
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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alex-the-cat wrote:Noscript is broken in today's build.
Yeah, it's already known. I've been told uMatrix works though and the functionality is similar. It may be worth giving it a shot until it's fixed.
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sciguyryan wrote:The tab bar is still really slow to scroll horizontally - does anyone know if there is a bug raised on this?
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1387718

mentioned here too: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.c ... 356705#c67
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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Filed a bug for more compact buttons https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1388457

FoxClocks is dead from today. Still showing date and time on a toolbar but unfortunately not updating data after browser launched, so basically dead.

In the meantime I managed to get my userstyle working, but it required a bit of dirty hacking. Will see how long it lasts.
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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KeeFox and MinimizeToTray revived stopped working for me. RIP :(
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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Seems like Mozilla are going full steam ahead on the betas. Version 56 beta1 already up to build 5 :)
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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DinGo wrote:Seems like Mozilla are going full steam ahead on the betas. Version 56 beta1 already up to build 5 :)

That normally means that something failed to build or failed to work. Which is a good thing. :-)
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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Why is the font different in Nightly? I mean, Youtube video titles should be bold as in every other browser.
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There are some cases when a font face is like a completely different.
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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Edds wrote:Why is the font different in Nightly?
I'm not sure, but that might just be a difference in the kind of cleartype rendering used. IIRC Firefox on Windows still uses the style where letters are rendered sharply at the expense of kerning quality, whereas Chrome switched to the Linux style where perfect kerning takes precedence over font sharpness.

If I recall correctly, setting gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode to 5 in about:config should give you the default style for DirectWrite that prioritizes kerning quality. It's been a long time though, 5 might not be the right value.

Of course, it could also be that Firefox is getting subpixel anti-aliasing where Chrome is falling back to grayscale, I haven't looked into these things enough to tell which is which.
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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Edds wrote:Why is the font different in Nightly? I mean, Youtube video titles should be bold as in every other browser.

There are some cases when a font face is like a completely different.
Hmm... same regardless of Stylo being enabled or not. Weird thing is in both Edge and Firefox it's being computed as font-weight 500 which isn't bold but it's bold in Edge.
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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And this?
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How is this possible ? It looks like a completely different font.
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Re: The Official 20170809 builds are not yet out

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Yes, those are definitely different fonts. Firefox is using a serif font, Chrome and Edge are using a sans serif font there. I don't know why, do you have any custom font settings for either browser?
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