Firefox now breaks after a hyphen, under some conditions - what happened?
Jukka K. Korpela
in two lines, after the hyphen, when the word does not fit into the
available width as a whole but the first part does. That is, it treats the
hyphen as allowing a line break after it, as Internet Explorer has done for
a long time (always?).
When did this happen? I'm pretty sure this a relatively new feature in
Firefox, and I did not find any description of it.
A quick test,
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/test/hyphens.html
suggests that Firefox behaves much more reasonably than IE. In particular,
it does not break after a word-initial hyphen, and it seems to break a
hyphenated compound like world-famous only if there are at least five
letters on each side of the hyphen. But what are the exact conditions?
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Andreas Prilop
> I accidentally noticed that Firefox 3.6.6 breaks a word like "world-famous"
> in two lines, after the hyphen,
> When did this happen?
Starting with version 3.0, I believe. I tested with "Iceweasel 3.0.6"
(rv:1.9.0.14), which wraps as you describe: at least five characters
are necessary.
> I did not find any description of it.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95067
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