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Status: Assigned
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einbinder@chromium.org
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OS: Windows
Pri: 3
Type: Bug
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Font smoothing is always enabled in instances that inspect pages

Project Member Reported by phistuck@gmail.com, Jul 22 2016 
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Disable font smoothing completely (Control Panel > System > Advanced system settings > Advanced > Performance > Settings... > Uncheck "Smooth edges of screen fonts", also, Control Panel > Display > Adjust ClearType text > Uncheck "Turn on ClearType").
2. Go to Chrome.
3. Go to some page.
4. Press F12.

What is the expected behavior?
Non smooth edges of screen fonts.

What went wrong?
Smooth edges of screen fonts.

Did this work before? N/A 

Chrome version: 54.0.2803.0 64 bit  Channel: canary
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)
Flash Version: 

Note - if you press Control + Shift + J (to open a Developer Tools instance on the Developer Tools instance), the second instance does not have smooth edges of screen fonts. Only the first instance does.
Inspecting Service Worker instances also does not smooth edges of screen fonts. It seems that smooth edges of screen fonts is enabled only when the device mode button exists.
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Comment 1 by phistuck@chromium.org, Jul 22 2016

Components: -Platform>DevTools Platform>DevTools>UX Blink>Fonts UI>Browser
Status: Untriaged (was: Unconfirmed)
This is a problem because some people (me included, obviously) have issues reading when ClearType is enabled. Since Chrome shows fonts either with ClearType enabled (or something similar to it), or without font smoothing altogether (it ignores the middle state of disabling ClearType and not disabling font smoothing altogether, but that is a different issue), I have to turn off font smoothing completely (at the operating system level) in order to disable ClearType in Chrome. Everything in Chrome adheres to this setting, except the Developer Tools. The fonts are blurry for me as a result.

Comment 2 by caseq@chromium.org, Jul 22 2016

Components: -Platform>DevTools>UX Platform>DevTools
Owner: dgozman@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)

Comment 3 by dgozman@chromium.org, Jul 29 2016 

I think the problem is in difference between WebContentsDelegate in docked vs undocked mode.

Comment 4 by dgozman@chromium.org, Jul 29 2016

Labels: -Pri-2 Pri-3

Comment 5 by phistuck@gmail.com, Jul 29 2016 

Note that this is unrelated to the docking mode. It looks the same docked or undocked.

Comment 6 by dgozman@chromium.org, Dec 1 2016

Labels: Hotlist-Polish

Comment 7 by phistuck@chromium.org, Dec 1 2016

Components: UI>Accessibility
Labels: Hotlist-Accessibility
Adding accessibility labels/components here, since this affects people that are having difficulties reading fonts that use ClearType and the like.

Comment 8 by phistuck@gmail.com, Dec 2 2016 

More information - if you press F12 while viewing a popup window, font smoothing is disabled.
It is only enabled when inspecting tabs.

Comment 9 by dmazz...@chromium.org, Mar 7 2017

Labels: NewComponent-Accessibility-Browser

Comment 10 by dmazz...@chromium.org, Mar 27 2017

Labels: NewComponent-Accessibility

Comment 11 by dmazz...@chromium.org, Apr 21 2017

Labels: -newcomponent-accessibility-browser -newcomponent-accessibility

Comment 12 by dmazz...@chromium.org, Aug 4 2017

Labels: triage-lpalmaro

Comment 13 by lpalmaro@chromium.org, Aug 4 2017

Labels: -triage-lpalmaro
dgozman@ any updates on this bug?

Comment 14 by dgozman@chromium.org, Aug 4 2017

Owner: einbinder@chromium.org
No updates. Over to Joel for accessibility.

Comment 15 by leberly@chromium.org, Dec 14 2017

Labels: a11y-secondary
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