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Blurry font rendering

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I just installed Firefox. What I noticed right away while using it was that fonts were very blurry/hard to read on all web pages, and even in firefox's menus and URL bar.

I attached two pictures, one is a screenshot in Firefox, and the other is a screenshot in Brave. (All chromium web browsers I have tried don't have firefox's font problem)

I just installed Firefox. What I noticed right away while using it was that fonts were very blurry/hard to read on all web pages, and even in firefox's menus and URL bar. I attached two pictures, one is a screenshot in Firefox, and the other is a screenshot in Brave. (All chromium web browsers I have tried don't have firefox's font problem)
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After doing some research, I found out that going to about:config and setting the gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode option to a value of 5 (and then restarting Firefox) solved the issue. Extra information: for me, the value was set to -1 by default.

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Waseem
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The first screenshot is in Brave, and the second one is in Firefox.

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Chosen Solution

After doing some research, I found out that going to about:config and setting the gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode option to a value of 5 (and then restarting Firefox) solved the issue. Extra information: for me, the value was set to -1 by default.

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