[tor-bugs] #33151 [Applications/Tor Browser]: Broken font rendering in Tor Browser (uneven and inconsistent spacing between glyphs)

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#33151: Broken font rendering in Tor Browser (uneven and inconsistent spacing
between glyphs)
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 Reporter:  TrickleSubzeroSpoof       |          Owner:  tbb-team
     Type:  defect                    |         Status:  new
 Priority:  Medium                    |      Milestone:
Component:  Applications/Tor Browser  |        Version:
 Severity:  Normal                    |     Resolution:
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Comment (by TrickleSubzeroSpoof):

 Replying to [comment:2 Thorin]:
 >
 > - font whitelisting is different per os (windows, linux, mac: not sure
 what android is doing)
 > - not everyone necessarily has all fonts in the whitelist: mac should be
 consistent, windows I know has some entropy (differences), and Linux I
 suspect would be the most diverse
 > - not everyone has the same version of the font whitelisted
 >
 > That said, the webpage's css shows `arial,sans-serif` for the side-bar
 links
 >
 > I'm not a font kerning expert, but it looks pretty much identical to me
 in TB vs FF on my windows system - and both are using the same font: Arial
 - I'll attach a pic.
 >
 > What OS are you on?
 >

 My OS is Manjaro/KDE.
 I looked at your screenshot (Windows-FF-vs-TB.png), both variants are
 obviously suffering from the same issue as described in this report -
 kerning is way off.

 To compare, this is how it looks in FF: (see the last attached pic) - much
 more readable.

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