Why does Appearance->Fonts->Rendering not affect Firefox?

[Luke M]

Why does Appearance->Fonts->Rendering not affect Firefox? Is this a bug or intentional for some reason? Firefox itself has no way of changing these preferences, as far as I can tell. This is a default ubuntu 11.04 install.

[nomko]

There is the option of changing the font in FF. Take a look here: http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Changing%20fonts%20and%20colors

[Luke M]

No, there is no rendering option, only font selection.

[lovinglinux]

No, there is no rendering option, only font selection.

See the fourth item at http://www.webgapps.org/tutorials/firefox/troubleshooting/rendering-issues-and-solutions

[Luke M]

See the fourth item at http://www.webgapps.org/tutorials/firefox/troubleshooting/rendering-issues-and-solutions

What does this do?

[Luke M]

I found a solution here:

http://linuxtweaking.blogspot.com/2011/01/ubuntu-10x-firefox-font-rendering-fix.html

As a Ubuntu user you may notice Firefox does not obey the Gnome Appearance Setting with respect to the font rendering.

To make Firefox match your Gnome font rendering setting, simply erase the following file links in the /etc/fonts/conf.d folder

10-antialias.conf
10-hinting.conf
10-hinting-slight.conf

In a terminal type,

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d

sudo rm 10-*.confRestart Firefox for the changes to take effect.

How to restore the symbolic links

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-antialias.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/