[partially solved] firefox and input boxes

Question

I've updated firefox to 3.5 recently, after update, I noticed that input boxes look too long.
here's a screenshot of www.archlinux.org (pay attention to package search area)
and here's a screenshot from google.
I dont have any problems with midori, it renders the page fine:
I tried changing firefox theme and gtk theme but it didnt help.
So, any ideas about this problem?
solved
well, i've solved my problem by changing main font from Lucida Grande to another font.
Last edited by ras0ir (2009-07-14 08:43:05)

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem but i didn't want to change my system font because i really like the elegance of 'Lucida Grande'.
I tried a bit tweaking Firefox with creating userChrome.css but it didn't work for me.
Then i installed the stylish addon and created a custom userstyle:
* Bugfix for the firefox input fields when using 'Lucida grande' as system font
@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
input {
font-family: sans-serif !important;
With this workaround all input fields are at the right size again. Of course 'sans-serif' shouldn't again point to 'Lucida Grande' For me it's 'DejaVu Sans'.
Could someone help me to realize this workaround with a userChrome.css so i don't need the stylish extension anymore?
Also this tweak applies to all 'input' fields - e.g. to buttons, too. How can i specifiy, that it should only target single-line text inputs?
cheers
Fat