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Font not displaying properly

lanceg
lanceg
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Recently did a clean install of Windows 7. Installed Firefox, and text on webpages looks horrible. Here is a screenshot

http://i.imgur.com/U5R84Bc.png

I tried disabling hardware acceleration, no effect. I reinstalled the Arial font, which the web inspector says is being used, no effect. I have font smoothing turned off, and I am keeping it that way, I hate font smoothing

I know it can be fixed since I fixed it in the past without turning on font smoothing, I just can't remember how I did it.

Recently did a clean install of Windows 7. Installed Firefox, and text on webpages looks horrible. Here is a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/U5R84Bc.png I tried disabling hardware acceleration, no effect. I reinstalled the Arial font, which the web inspector says is being used, no effect. I have font smoothing turned off, and I am keeping it that way, I hate font smoothing I know it can be fixed since I fixed it in the past without turning on font smoothing, I just can't remember how I did it.

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Rimas Kudelis
Rimas Kudelis
  • Locale Leader
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Try setting gfx.content.azure.enabled to false.

Also, bug 760248 and other related bugs in Bugzilla might be of interest.

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
  • Top 25 Contributor
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First, on having to edit the rule, do you mean because there are a lot of different fonts in use? I think you'll accumulate all the significant ones pretty quickly.

If you meant adding domains, simply don't list any domains. This garish rule demonstrates: 

@namespace url(http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml);
body {
  background-color: yellow !important;
}

Second, I think if you go with the flow of default settings, the fonts look fine. I've attached a screenshot for comparison with your original image.

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