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Fonts look a bit ugly?

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ffilou6
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I have a 17" screen, 1024x768. After updating Mozilla Firefox, I look at this page http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.12/whatsnew/ .

Firefox Extension: NoScript.

1)Before allowing scripts: fonts look clean and readable. http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab81/ffilou6/ff3612a.png ;

2)After allowing scripts: fonts look a bit ugly, bold and kind of blurry, not precise and straight, aliased http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab81/ffilou6/ff3612b.png .

I hope in the next Firefox updating page, fonts will look better :-) .

I have a 17" screen, 1024x768. After updating Mozilla Firefox, I look at this page [http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.12/whatsnew/ http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/3.6.12/whatsnew/] . Firefox Extension: NoScript. 1)Before allowing scripts: fonts look clean and readable. [http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab81/ffilou6/ff3612a.png http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab81/ffilou6/ff3612a.png] ; 2)After allowing scripts: fonts look a bit ugly, bold and kind of blurry, not precise and straight, aliased [http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab81/ffilou6/ff3612b.png http://i852.photobucket.com/albums/ab81/ffilou6/ff3612b.png] . I hope in the next Firefox updating page, fonts will look better :-) .

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cor-el
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Reset the page zoom on pages that cause problems: View > Zoom > Reset (Ctrl+0 (zero); Cmd+0 on Mac)

See also Websites look wrong or appear differently than they should

You can enable ClearType system wide for all programs to make other programs like Firefox use it.

XP: Control Panel > Display > Appearance > Effects: "Use the following method to smooth edges of screen fonts"

See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/306527 - HOW TO: Use ClearType to Enhance Screen Fonts in Windows XP

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