Weird font display issue in Firefox 3.6

[dcstar]

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Please report if that works or not. It seems this will be a very common question.

Ever since FF 3.5 when they decided to no longer use the actual Gnome font aliasing settings you set for the rest of your Ubuntu system - which still actually works in FF 3.0.x.

It is a common question because the FF developers basically broke the link between FF and the way Ubuntu controls these things.

[yyka]

[delete this plz], don't know how to delet]

[yyka]

Try this:

gedit ~/.fonts.conf

then replace the content of that file with this:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintslight</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

Save it and restart Firefox.

Please report if that works or not. It seems this will be a very common question.

hey, ! big up for your tip !

"works like a charm " as you say in Usa , very good , I'm search for this for about 2 days ! your .fonts.conf is excelent for me.....



thanks you

[lovinglinux]

hey, ! big up for your tip !

"works like a charm " as you say in Usa , very good , I'm search for this for about 2 days ! your .fonts.conf is excelent for me.....



thanks you

You are welcome. It isn't actually mine. I took that from the forums a while back and can remember from where. So I just posted the one I use

[Michalxo]

Ok, so no help from that you posted
Making .fonts.conf and rebuilding fonts made it actually even worse in firefox 3.6 and 3.7 I removed .fonts.conf and rebuilded again. So, now I have ugly fonts in 3.6 but normal in 3.7. Any other guesses how to fix that? :-/

Attached image: 3.7 vs 3.6

[lovinglinux]

Any other guesses how to fix that? :-/

Nope.

[yyka]

[QUOTE=. So, now I have ugly fonts in 3.6 but normal in 3.7. Any other guesses how to fix that? :-/

[/QUOTE]

so only use firefox 3.7 , why not ?

[Joey B.]

hey, ! big up for your tip !

"works like a charm " as you say in Usa , very good , I'm search for this for about 2 days ! your .fonts.conf is excelent for me.....



thanks you

I can't really tell the difference.

[Michalxo]

so only use firefox 3.7 , why not ?

I am using chromium, but I prefer "stable" releases a bit more over instable and 3.7 is not that good... and this problem may arise in more PCs then only in mine.. I can be wrong though

lovinglinux - thanks anyway

[Michalxo]

Interesting thing is, that I have similar ugly fonts in VLC too.