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Firefox does not render fonts on certain pages how it should

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On certain webpages (google and facebook), the fonts are not rendered correctly. See screenshot for example.

setting gfx.use_text_smoothing_setting to true did not work; setting ayers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false did not work; dis- or enabling hardware acceleration did not work.

I have cleartype smoothing on windows vista and only firefox has a problem.

Please help, thank you

On certain webpages (google and facebook), the fonts are not rendered correctly. See screenshot for example. setting gfx.use_text_smoothing_setting to true did not work; setting ayers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled to false did not work; dis- or enabling hardware acceleration did not work. I have cleartype smoothing on windows vista and only firefox has a problem. Please help, thank you

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There have been issues reported on Windows Vista with the kb3013455 update from Microsoft. Microsoft has released an update to address these issues.

MS15-010: Description of the security update for Windows kernel mode driver: February 10, 2015:

Fix for text quality degradation after security update 3013455 (MS15-010) is installed:

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There have been issues reported on Windows Vista with the kb3013455 update from Microsoft. Microsoft has released an update to address these issues.

MS15-010: Description of the security update for Windows kernel mode driver: February 10, 2015:

Fix for text quality degradation after security update 3013455 (MS15-010) is installed: