I filed a bug recently on the occurence of text input boxes at Amazon.com whose contents are invisible. These input boxes (found on the sign-in form and elsewhere) are also too "short" or "narrow".

I also found the cause of this bug with the help of Jesse Ruderman's Edit Styles Bookmarklet: an errant line of CSS.

Can anyone confirm this bug for me?

Update:
I have a work-around for this bug.

Summary of the Problem:
It seems that in certain cases, Windows XP thinks that a font / font-family named 'fixed' is installed, but in fact it is not. This leads Mozilla (and Internet Explorer) to display any text marked up with the font-family named 'fixed' as blank / invisible text.
The reason that Internet Explorer shows Amazon's sign-in form correctly is that Amazon only feeds the CSS rule determining that certain text should be shown in the font-face 'fixed' only to Mozilla (and not to Internet Explorer).

To Fix This Problem -
We just feed Windows XP what it expects: a real font named 'fixed'. I have taken an existing free font and renamed it to 'fixed'. The original author's copyright is still preserved.

Download this font file to your desktop, and then copy it to your fonts directory (most probably C:\Windows\Fonts). This will install it. Close and restart FireFox / Mozilla Navigator. The Amazon site should work now.

Important Note: Do not directly save this file to your C:\Windows\Fonts folder. If you do that Windows will not install this font. Only by copying the font file from one Windows folder (in this case your desktop) to the C:\Windows\Fonts folder does Windows actually install the font for you.

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