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unclear fonts

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hi,

some fonts on some web pages are jagged, with bold vertical lines and hard to read in FF 43.0.4 [see the attached screenshots comparing FF and IE11].

texts in other apps and in the whole win7 enviroment look fine and crisp. i don't use and don't want to use the win7 feature "ClearType": it solves the firefox issue [i.e. the texts become smooth], but a system-wide use makes the fonts in other apps+win7 somewhat bold...

i've googled for hours and tried the following, but it didn't help: - display driver is up to date - uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" - set "webgl.disabled" to true.

thank you very much for help.

panda


system info: win7 pro N FF 43.0.4 FF troubleshooting information: Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Adapter Drivers nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um Adapter RAM 2048 Asynchronous Pan/Zoom none Device ID 0x0fc2 Direct2D Enabled true DirectWrite Enabled true (6.2.9200.17461) Driver Date 6-4-2014 Driver Version 9.18.13.3325 GPU #2 Active false GPU Accelerated Windows 3/3 Direct3D 11 (OMTC) Subsys ID 0936103c Supports Hardware H264 Decoding No; Failed to create H264 decoder Vendor ID 0x10de WebGL Renderer Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0) windowLayerManagerRemote true AzureCanvasBackend direct2d 1.1 AzureContentBackend direct2d 1.1 AzureFallbackCanvasBackend cairo AzureSkiaAccelerated 0

hi, some fonts on some web pages are jagged, with bold vertical lines and hard to read in FF 43.0.4 [see the attached screenshots comparing FF and IE11]. texts in other apps and in the whole win7 enviroment look fine and crisp. i don't use and don't want to use the win7 feature "ClearType": it solves the firefox issue [i.e. the texts become smooth], but a system-wide use makes the fonts in other apps+win7 somewhat bold... i've googled for hours and tried the following, but it didn't help: - display driver is up to date - uncheck "Use hardware acceleration when available" - set "webgl.disabled" to true. thank you very much for help. panda system info: win7 pro N FF 43.0.4 FF troubleshooting information: Adapter Description NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Adapter Drivers nvd3dumx,nvwgf2umx,nvwgf2umx nvd3dum,nvwgf2um,nvwgf2um Adapter RAM 2048 Asynchronous Pan/Zoom none Device ID 0x0fc2 Direct2D Enabled true DirectWrite Enabled true (6.2.9200.17461) Driver Date 6-4-2014 Driver Version 9.18.13.3325 GPU #2 Active false GPU Accelerated Windows 3/3 Direct3D 11 (OMTC) Subsys ID 0936103c Supports Hardware H264 Decoding No; Failed to create H264 decoder Vendor ID 0x10de WebGL Renderer Google Inc. -- ANGLE (NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0) windowLayerManagerRemote true AzureCanvasBackend direct2d 1.1 AzureContentBackend direct2d 1.1 AzureFallbackCanvasBackend cairo AzureSkiaAccelerated 0
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What font uses Firefox when this happens?

You can right-click and select "Inspect Element" to open the Inspector (3-bar Menu button or Tools > Web Developer) with this element selected. You can check the font used for selected text in the Font tab in the right pane of the Inspector.

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cor-el, thanks for your interest. here is the complete font info:

Open Sans remote

http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/opensans/v13/u-WUoqrET9fUeobQW7jkRVtXRa8TVwTICgirnJhmVJw.woff2 (woff2)

Used as: "Open Sans"

@font-face {

 font-family: "Open Sans";
 font-style: normal;
 font-weight: 400;
 src: local("Open Sans"), local("OpenSans"), url("http://fonts.gstatic.com/s/opensans/v13/u-WUoqrET9fUeobQW7jkRVtXRa8TVwTICgirnJhmVJw.woff2") format("woff2");

}