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Is anyone else having trouble with font hinting in the latest firefox and gnome? The application will render everything else great, but there's no font hinting to be seen. It hurts the eyes something feirce.
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Re: Subpixel font hinting in Firefox 3.0 b3
Seems to be working fine for me. If I am understanding things correctly, Firefox 3 uses your system defaults for things like drop-downs, fonts, check-boxes, etc. So maybe check that your font settings in gnome are configured correctly?
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Re: Subpixel font hinting in Firefox 3.0 b3
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Firefox2.png is Firefox 2.0.0.12 Firefox3.png is Firefox 3 beta 3 I know its kind of hard to distinguish but on my LCD, firefox 3 has sparklies all around the font edges and look rough. FF2 all nice and smooth. Last edited by darktempest; February 16th, 2008 at 07:52 PM.. |
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Re: Subpixel font hinting in Firefox 3.0 b3
Sorry to revive an old thread but I've been having the exact same problem from ff 3b3 through today with beta5... To be more specific, I think it's not that firefox doesn't do subpixel hinting, it's that it does it too much or just differently than everything else..
There is colorization on the edges of some letters, while others appear too crisp as if sharpened. See below, firefox3 beta5 menu bar next to a menubar from another app. Compare with next screenshot, which is firefox2 menubar and terminal menubar. Also some text from ubuntuforums, the first one is from firefox3 beta5 and the second from firefox2. Are others seeing this as well? Is there some way to fix this? PS: My font settings are set to subpixel smoothing with full hinting, and I'm using the Liberation fonts, in ubuntu gutsy.
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Re: Subpixel font hinting in Firefox 3.0 b3
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Re: Subpixel font hinting in Firefox 3.0 b3
Just wanted to say, I have the same problem. I tried starting firefox 3 with: firefox --enable-system-cairo, but it doesn't help, at all. I hope they get this fixed soon, I love everything about firefox 3 except for the awful font rendering.
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Re: Subpixel font hinting in Firefox 3.0 b3
Judging from this thread firefox must be compiled with the -enable-system-cairo option, for fonts to look like other apps. This is both good and bad, good because the official package will presumably be compiled correctly , but I'm sure compiling something like firefox isn't an easy process.
For the record, the current package in the repos (beta3 iirc) doesn't show any improvements.
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