Reply button text and text editing Dingbats in Trac are not visible on Gnu+Linux TBB

Strangely, the text on the reply button in our bug tracker is not visible with Tor Browser based on ESR45. I have no such issues with 6.0a4. The security slider setting does not matter. This is on a Linux box.

added TorBrowserTeam201609 component::applications/tor browser ff45-esr owner::tbb-team parent::18364 priority::high severity::normal status::needs-information tbb-6.0-issues tbb-fingerprinting-fonts tbb-rbm tbb-regression tbb-usability type::defect labels

Seems to have been a local glitch. Works for me now.

Trac:
Status: new to closed
Resolution: N/A to worksforme

It is back!1!! And on different systems, how odd.

Trac:
Resolution: worksforme to N/A
Status: closed to reopened

Dragging into May to have it on our 6.0 radar.

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Keywords: N/A deleted, TorBrowserTeam201605 added

This is related to our font fingerprinting defense. Commenting out

export FONTCONFIG_PATH="${HOME}/TorBrowser/Data/fontconfig"

solves the problem for me.

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201605 deleted, tbb-regression, TorBrowserTeam201605 tbb-fingerprinting-fonts added
Cc: N/A to arthuredelstein
Summary: Text on reply button in Trac is not visible to Text on reply button in Trac is not visible on Linux

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201605 tbb-fingerprinting-fonts deleted, tbb-fingerprinting-fonts, TorBrowserTeam201606 added

If I "inspect" the "Reply" button it and look at font-family under the Computed (style) tab, it says

input[type="submit"]> -moz-use-system-font

and indicates that this style setting comes from re[/gre-resources/forms.css.](/gre-resources/forms.css.) Interestingly, this font-family` setting overrides one provided by tor.css (in the content page).

On my (Ubuntu/xfce4) system, the "Reply" text is visible, however. The "Fonts" tab indicates that it is rendered in Cousine, which is bundled with Tor Browser. Georg, what OS/desktop did you see this problem?

Trac:
Status: reopened to needs_information

Replying to arthuredelstein:

If I "inspect" the "Reply" button it and look at font-family under the Computed (style) tab, it says {{{ input[type="submit"]> -moz-use-system-font }}} and indicates that this style setting comes from re[/gre-resources/forms.css.](/gre-resources/forms.css.) Interestingly, this font-family` setting overrides one provided by tor.css (in the pagxfce4 On my (Ubuntu/xfce4) system, the "Reply" text is visible, however. The "Fonts" tab indicates that it is rendered in Cousine, which is bundled with Tor Browser. Georg, what OS/desktop did you see this problem?

On several different ones, e.g. on an Ubuntu 14.04 with GNOME or an Debian testing system with XFCE. Would it help if I set some debugging env vars to see what is going on within the font code in Tor Browser to debug this? If so, what would help here?

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-6.0-issues added

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201606 deleted, TorBrowserTeam201607 added

Moving items to August 2016.

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201607 deleted, TorBrowserTeam201608 added

Tickets for September.

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Keywords: TorBrowserTeam201608 deleted, TorBrowserTeam201609 added

Trac:
Username: vegansalad
Parent: N/A to #18097 (moved)
Priority: Medium to High

I wrote a fair bit about this problem in the ticket over here: https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/18172

Actually, more things are broken in Trac in Linux TBB than just the reply button not being visible. I'm not able to view the "bold" "italic" "link" or any other icons above the box that I'm typing in right now. I'm assuming others are having the same problem.

The issue seems to be related to a number of very commonly used dingbats not rendering in Linux TBB. #18364 (moved)

As you can see at this page, a lot of dingbats don't work: http://danshort.com/HTMLentities/index.php?w=dingb

Trac:
Username: vegansalad

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Username: vegansalad
Parent: #18097 (moved) to #18364 (moved)

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Username: vegansalad
Summary: Text on reply button in Trac is not visible on Linux to Reply button text and text editing Dingbats in Trac are not visible on Gnu+Linux TBB

Does it not matter to the Tor Project that Tor Browser's issue tracking site doesn't work when viewed view GNU+Linux users using Tor Browser? Seems like this is worth fixing.

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Username: vegansalad

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Username: vegansalad

This bug still hasn't been fixed for gnu+linux TBB users.

Trac:
Username: vegansalad

Replying to vegansalad:

This bug still hasn't been fixed for gnu+linux TBB users.

Do you still see this issue? I don't see it anymore.

Putting this into tbb-rbm because this is related to bundled fonts.

Trac:
Keywords: N/A deleted, tbb-rbm added

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#18860 (closed)