Lower parts of letters get eaten by making line-height uniform

In #23104 (moved) we tried to make the line height uniform in order to avoid operating system fingerprinting. It seems that affects some systems in a way that lower parts of letters in the URL bar are eaten:

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-browser-75a5-released#comment-271522

added component::applications/tor browser owner::tbb-team priority::medium severity::normal status::needs-information tbb-fingerprinting-os tbb-usability type::defect labels

I wonder whether that would get solved by making sure the patch only applies to content and not the chrome parts.

Text drifts slightly in the Browser Console. Is this because of this feature?

Replying to cypherpunks:

Text drifts slightly in the Browser Console. Is this because of this feature?

Could be if you are using 7.5a5. You could test whether disabling fingerprinting resistance fixes the issue for you (this feature, as many other fingerprinting related ones, is bound to privacy.resistFingerprinting which we set to true).

Should be "fixed" by backing out the patch for #23104 (moved) until we have a better solution.

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

In content: https://dxr.mozilla.org

Replying to cypherpunks:

Text drifts slightly in the Browser Console. Is this because of this feature? Confirmed.

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

Did you try the experimental tor browser? I am not able to reproduce the problem there. (However it is reproducible in the latest stable build 7.5.x).

Replying to cypherpunks:

In content: https://dxr.mozilla.org

Replying to cypherpunks:

Text drifts slightly in the Browser Console. Is this because of this feature? Confirmed.

Trac:
Status: reopened to needs_information

Kidding? They are identical in that regard.

Trac:
Status: needs_information to new

And just to make sure we are in the same page, when the JavaScript is disabled (noscript), the page content doesn't render properly. Even in Firefox Quantum.

Replying to cypherpunks:

Kidding? They are identical in that regard.

Replying to cypherpunks:

In content: https://dxr.mozilla.org

What do you mean? Which operating system are you on? Could you add a screenshot showing your problem?

Trac:
Status: new to needs_information

mentioned in issue #26146 (moved)

moved to tpo/applications/tor-browser#23701 (closed)