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ginkotoday at 12:54 PM4 repliesview on HN

The typesetting of this looks very broken on firefox with extreme gaps between lines of text. Seems to render fine on chromium.


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nk_koljatoday at 1:48 PM

Thank you for letting me now, but I cannot replicate the issue on Firefox. There are some issues with math and the animations not breaking on mobile, which I am working on repairing. (fixed)

EDIT: I have added a different fallback font so it should work on your Firefox now.

Retr0idtoday at 1:31 PM

It renders fine for me, but I've also had the "extreme gaps between lines" thing happen before on Firefox, and in my case it was caused by a bad font fallback - I forget the precise details but I think it had something to do with having Arabic fonts installed, which were erroneously taking preference for certain non-arabic glyphs. (Check the Fonts tab in dev tools)

voakbasdatoday at 2:36 PM

I believe this is a missing font issue, whereupon Firefox chooses very poor substitutes. I ran into this recently on one of my machines and solved it by installing the Microsoft fonts package (or possibly another one… I can’t remember now exactly which one did the trick).

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metalliqaztoday at 1:15 PM

I use firefox and it renders approximately the same as Chrome for me.

Assuming OP didn't patch something, you may have a misbehaving extension.