Brave-browser: Shields menu text is not visible

Created on 16 Sep 2018 · 28Comments · Source: brave/brave-browser

Description

Text in shields menu is not visible (see screenshot)

Steps to Reproduce

Download latest dev release and run it
Go to any website
Open shields menu

Actual result:

brave_shields_invisible

Reproduces how often:

Always

Brave version

v0.55.4

Reproducible on current release:

Additional Information

Void Linux (Kernel 4.18)
i3 window manager

I have tried dark/light classic and gtk+ themes, changing the system gtk theme.
If not all fonts are packaged with the release maybe I am missing one.

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Source

DBLouis

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Most helpful comment

This appears to be a packaging issue in the zip version. Looking at the various issues and threads I didn't see any definition on what's going on, so I've narrowed it down, further details here: https://community.brave.com/t/brave-shield-ui-bug/33570/63

I hope this helps resolve it!

rjocoleman on 23 Jan 2019

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All 28 comments

I haven't looked too much in depth into this, but it _seems_ that the text is just not there at all, at least when inspecting the popup with the Dev Tools.

screenshot from 2018-10-16 11-52-55

On this screenshot I just manually added the text into the <option> element via Dev Tools. Notice how the <option> elements from the other <select> earlier are completely empty.

jaromero on 16 Oct 2018

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@srirambv Could you see if this is fixed on new builds?

tomlowenthal on 31 Oct 2018

Still not working in v0.57.3

DBLouis on 31 Oct 2018

Same here, on Linux (4.18.16) with Cinnamon desktop environment.

warwickmm on 1 Nov 2018

In v0.57.6 the menu is prettier but still no text

DBLouis on 6 Nov 2018

I have the same issue on Version 0.56.12 Chromium: 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit). Running KDE on Arch Linux 4.19.1-arch1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Sun Nov 4 16:49:26 UTC 2018 x86_64 GNU/Linux

MafiaInc on 14 Nov 2018

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In additional I have some strange i18n prefixes on the text in "Brave Rewards" menu:

I'm not sure whether it worth opening separate issue for that one? :)

MafiaInc on 14 Nov 2018

@MafiaInc Please log an another issue for the rewards panel with translation strings. Also please mention the OS details. This could be specific to Arch based distros. I don't see this problem on Ubuntu

srirambv on 14 Nov 2018

@srirambv Issue: #2138 opened

MafiaInc on 14 Nov 2018

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I can confirm this issue on Arch. Version 0.56.12 Chromium: 70.0.3538.77 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit).

This somehow feels like a font problem - ~~what font is used on the Shield?~~

Edit: looks like Poppins font is used. However, installing the font changed nothing.

In Inspect it does seem there is no text at all.

cptMikky on 19 Nov 2018

Still in 0.58.9

DBLouis on 21 Nov 2018

Still in 0.56.15-1

bartduisters on 30 Nov 2018

same thing here (Slackware 14.2, Version 0.57.18 Chromium: 71.0.3578.80 (Official Build) unknown (64-bit))
shields

mdkcore0 on 11 Dec 2018

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@posix4e do you have an idea of what can be causing this? this seems related to arch based distros only. other distributions doesn't seem to be affected. can't repro on ubuntu for example

cezaraugusto on 12 Dec 2018

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This strikes me as something going wrong with our translation layer (either JS or outside) and not a font issue since there is _some_ text on the page, the text that is hidden is not in the DOM at all, and the text that is displaying Ok is non-translated (domain names and numbers).

petemill on 13 Dec 2018

I've tried to manually extract and run Brave from the Ubuntu package (v 0.57.18) on my Arch and the shield works there so apparently there is something wrong with the plain zip release.

cptMikky on 13 Dec 2018

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Still in v0.59.6

DBLouis on 13 Dec 2018

@posix4e do you have an idea of what can be causing this? this seems related to arch based distros only. other distributions doesn't seem to be affected. can't repro on ubuntu for example

just to say, I'm on Slackware and it doesn't work either.

I've tried to manually extract and run Brave from the Ubuntu package (v 0.57.18) on my Arch and the shield works there so apparently there is something wrong with the plain zip release.

yup, I'm running it from the zip as well (the slackware package is just a repackage of it too).

mdkcore0 on 13 Dec 2018

Running Brave on Solus from zip as well, still no fonts on Shield, on last stable, beta and dev Brave versions

ghost on 18 Dec 2018

I'm also seeing the i18n issue on Ubuntu 18.04

Installed via the zip download.

kirkins on 23 Dec 2018

+1 from Community https://community.brave.com/t/bad-colours-on-brave-extension/41076?u=eljuno

eljuno on 27 Dec 2018

I had to uninstall Brave on Arch for this reason, also. The issue persists in latest brave-bin (0.58.18-1) and brave-dev-bin (0.60.6-1). Using Cinnamon 4.0.8 with Mutter.

RainmakerRaw on 5 Jan 2019

un-assigning myself as this is platform specific and I won't be able to help much. cc @posix4e who could answer better regarding Linux-related issues

cezaraugusto on 17 Jan 2019

I hope this helps resolve it!

rjocoleman on 23 Jan 2019

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@rjocoleman great find. I have just tested this with brave-beta-0.59.28 on my arch install. Extracting the resources from the debian package and inserting them into the zip distribution, fixes this issue.
screenshot from 2019-01-23 15-14-14