Ugly font rendering in firefox in xubuntu?

[strabes]

Title pretty much says it all. I installed xubuntu-desktop to check it out and the font rendering in firefox in it is really really ugly. It's hard to explain. Any ideas? Font rendering in everything else in xfce and gnome is great btw.

[IcemanV9]

Maybe if you could install msttcorefonts (M$ fonts)? It should help a lot.

[grumpymole]

Alex,

Try Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced under Fonts & Colors. Then change the fonts to Bitstream Vera Sans or Serif. This should improve them.

Also, the size of the Firefox menu fonts sometimes doesn't match the size of the system fonts. There is a fix here.

Regards

Warren
http://grumpymole.blogspot.com

[capital]

The problem is with Firefox, not the system. Here is the easiest fix:

type about:config in the address bar [enter]
find layout.css.dpi (type dpi in the filter)
change the value to '0' (zero) -- this forces firefox to use system font settings
restart firefox

No need to mess with other configuration files.
That was for Firefox 2.0 and up.

For Firefox 1.5, just go to Preferences > Content > Fonts & Colors
Go to the advanced dialog box, and tell it to use system font settings.