Ask YC: All things being equal, why would a browser render pages differently?

2 points by lalagrande 17y ago ↗ HN

I recently reinstalled my operating system, and reinstalled Mozilla Firefox. For all practical purposes, my configuration is exactly what it was two days ago.

However, now I've noticed that margins are a few pixels off in FF3. I'm concerned about designing on this box now, as my CSS might be a few pixels off.

I'm wondering, what might be the cause of this discrepancy?

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babyshake 17y ago ↗

I really doubt its the margins.

What kind of fonts are on the page? I bet the problem is that you don't have Microsoft fonts installed. (they're not included with Linux distros, for example)

aaronblohowiak 17y ago ↗

how can you tell that they are "off"? what do you mean by "off" ?

gtani 17y ago ↗

You need to provide more info: what is your O/S, what is your baseline (markup and stylesheet developed/tested first in FF/firebug/Safari vs. IE 6 or 7?), whether your sure this is not an IE 6/7 "feature".