Bug 14949 - Google search results first 2 letters of words in subject overlapping
Summary: Google search results first 2 letters of words in subject overlapping
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: New Bugs (show other bugs)
Version: 523.x (Safari 3)
Hardware: Mac OS X 10.4
: P2 Normal
Assignee: mitz
URL: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa...
Keywords: GoogleBug, InRadar
: 17495 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2007-08-12 09:27 PDT by Patricia Warwick
Modified: 2008-07-06 17:05 PDT (History)
2 users (show)

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Screen capture of results page (71.13 KB, image/png)
2007-08-12 09:30 PDT, Patricia Warwick
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Description Patricia Warwick 2007-08-12 09:27:07 PDT
I did the following search in Google: "How to Save the World in your Spare Time"

Some words in the results displayed with the first letter and the second letter overlapping.

Other searches resulted in the same problem. Safari 3 displayed the results correctly.
Comment 1 Patricia Warwick 2007-08-12 09:30:57 PDT
Created attachment 15939 [details]
Screen capture of results page
Comment 2 Patricia Warwick 2007-08-12 10:50:32 PDT
Oops ... this is a much more general problem ... it seems to apply to many sites. Google is just one example.
Comment 3 David Kilzer (:ddkilzer) 2007-08-12 12:05:53 PDT
I can't reproduce this with this URL:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&client=safari&rls=en&q=%22How+to+Save+the+World+in+your+Spare+Time%22&btnG=Search

Using a local debug build of WebKit r25023 with Safari 3 Public Beta v. 3.0.3 (522.12.1) on Mac OS X 10.4.10 (8R18).

Patricia, what is the exact search URL that you're using?  You may be hitting different Google servers.

Are you logged into Google when this happens?
Comment 4 Patricia Warwick 2007-08-12 15:55:25 PDT
It's not happening any more but I think I restarted my computer in the meantime. It definitely was repeatable when I created the bug.
Comment 5 mitz 2008-02-25 17:01:25 PST
This seems to happen sometimes when fonts are removed or replaced on the system while Safari is open.

<rdar://problem/5735163>
Comment 6 mitz 2008-03-08 17:53:45 PST
*** Bug 17495 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 7 mitz 2008-07-06 17:05:19 PDT
(In reply to comment #5)
> This seems to happen sometimes when fonts are removed or replaced on the system
> while Safari is open.
> 
> <rdar://problem/5735163>

That bug was fixed in <http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/35025>.