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Font rendering in Firefox Developer Edition is not working as in Firefox standard

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Hello

I have downloaded latest version of developer edition and noticed that the font rendering is much different than IE ,Chrome and the standard Firefox or is just not existent .

Is it a general issue of Firefox Developer Edition (that is not using font rendering) or is my pcs fault?

Thanks a lot !

Hello I have downloaded latest version of developer edition and noticed that the font rendering is much different than IE ,Chrome and the standard Firefox or is just not existent . Is it a general issue of Firefox Developer Edition (that is not using font rendering) or is my pcs fault? Thanks a lot !

Modified by shak3800

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hi, in general font rendering shouldn't be different in firefox dev edition. could you go to the firefox menu ≡ > help ? > troubleshooting information, copy the contents of that page and paste them here into a reply on the forum? this might give us a clue what is going on...

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Here it is , and i have also attached two screenshots. One with developer and the other with firefox. Font rendering in developer makes the fonts thin whereas the firefox makes it bolder and clearer.


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You can try to disable hardware acceleration in Firefox.

  • Tools > Options > Advanced > General > Browsing: "Use hardware acceleration when available"

You need to close and restart Firefox after toggling this setting.

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I have tried that but nothing changed . Maybe this is they way developer edition has to be . Maybe it uses a developer font which makes rendering look different . It reminds me the rendering on linux machines.

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I have found the culprit . It is the experimental feature of Enable Multiple Processes of firefox developer edition .once enabled the rendering of the fonts goes bad. So there is a bug with that feature

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I have the same issue.

@shak3800 I wanted to disable Multiple Process option as you said it is buggy. But it was disabled already. [Enable multi-process Firefox Developer Edition (disabled: An accessibility tool is or was active. See bug 1115956.)]

Nevertheless it is disabled, i have this issue with fonts yet.

Any idea? :(

[+] Chromium-based browsers and Firefox Developer font render screenshots attached for more info.