Firefox 9.0: Font matching is broken

I have, among other the following font substitution in .fonts.conf:
<match target="pattern" name="family" >
<test name="family" qual="any" >
<string>Verdana</string>
</test>
<edit name="family" mode="assign">
<string>DejaVu Sans</string>
</edit>
</match>
[me@mycroft ~]$ fc-match Verdana
DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
I don't have the Microsoft fonts installed, and have similar substitutions for the other common web fonts and on Firefox 8 or on Epiphany this works wonderfully. On Firefox 9, however, some websites look really absolutely horrible.
When I test on http://www.w3schools.com/css/tryit.asp? … ont-family with the following snippit I get:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
p.sansserif{font-family:Verdana;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>CSS font-family</h1>
<p class="sansserif">This is a paragraph, shown in the Verdana or Dejavu Sans font.</p>
</body>
</html>
This is wat it should look like (Firefox 8 or Epiphany):
This is what I get on Firefox 9.0:
This is not Dejavu Sans!!!
Obvious bug in Firefox ?

lolilolicon wrote:
Leviathan1 wrote:I have filed the following bugzilla report:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=712900
But you seem to be giving the wrong version there:
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:8.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/8.0.1
I entered the report on Firefox 8, and the user agent string was added automatically.

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
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