26-12-2022 00:46 via news.slashdot.org

Mozilla Just Fixed an 18-Year-Old Firefox Bug

Mozilla recently fixed a bug that was first reported 18 years ago in Firebox 1.0, reports How-to Geek:Bug 290125 was first reported on April 12, 2005, only a few days before the release of Firefox 1.0.3, and outlined an issue with how Firefox rendered text with the ::first-letter CSS pseudo-element. The author said, "when floating left a :first-letter (to produce a dropcap), Gecko ignores any declared line-height and inherits the line-height of the parent box. [...] Both Opera 7.5+ and Safari 1.
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