Currently, you can't choose a font to be used when the page doesn't specify one. The default is locked in as "serif", and I'd much prefer "sans-serif". NS4.x lets me set this. I assume this is cross-platform, but I can only test the Mac.

Hi. I'm not sure exactly what you mean. You either have a pre-M13 build, which doesn't have the new font preferences panel, which lets you choose all kinds of fonts for all kinds of occasions. Or you do have M13 and are saying that what you choose there doesn't actually get remembered. That is bug 24830. Please reopen and explain if I've misunderstood. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24830 ***

Neither of those is what I mean. I should have been more specific. Sorry. Take the following HTML: <p> What font is this in? <p> <FONT FACE="sans-serif">This is in sans-serif</FONT> <p> <FONT FACE="serif">This is in serif</FONT> Now, the Mozilla font prefs lets you select what font you want to use if "serif" or "sans-serif" or whatever is specified. It *doesn't* let you choose the font to use when *nothing* is specified, which is the case for the vast majority of web pages out there (including the Mozilla home page). The default is "serif". I want to be able to change that default to "sans-serif" or whatever. NS4 uses a different font prefs UI: given the encoding, you choose what font you want for variable-width and what font you want for fixed-width. That way, I can select the default font if none is specified. I think that the Mozilla UI is better, in that it allows finer-grained control, but it's lacking that one feature that I'd really really like.

Putting erik & myself on CC list. Platform/OS = All.

The back-end does have a way to set this: user_pref("font.default", "sans-serif"); The problem is that the UI does not support this yet.

Eric, Should we add a preference for this in M15?

I'd like to see it in the UI in M14, but I have no idea what your work-load and priorities are like. Your manager's call.

Bulk move of all Pref UI component bugs to new Preferences component. Pref UI component will be deleted.

Move to M16 for now ...

Silly me, but isn't this done? It's in the current UI, and seems to work fine.

Move to M21 target milestone.

The UI is there now. Due to other bugs I cannot check if it is actually working or not.

Resolving this as WORKSFORME. The UI allows you to select a default font (per language encoding) for Serif and Sans Serif. Underneath these dropdown menus, there are 2 radio buttons for "Default Type:". So if you want Arial as the default font, you set Sans Serif to Arial and then check the Sans Serif radio button.

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