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Poor text rendering FF 35.01, fresh install no addons.

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I am switching from Chrome to FireFox but the initial experience is terrible. Text is rendered very badly.

Windows 8.1 Dell Precision M4800 with dual graphics - Intel and AMD FirePro M5100

Fresh install of FF, no addons.

Attached is an example from The Guardian. Look at the hairy fonts!...

Even the text on this site and this text box is rendered poorly. paradoxically the title text on this page is rendered perfectly ie. this:

"Ask your question to our community of users

Be nice. Our volunteers are Mozilla users just like you, who take the time out of their day to help. Be descriptive. Saying "Playing video on YouTube is always choppy" will help our volunteers identify your problem better than saying "Something is wrong" or "Firefox is broken". "

I am switching from Chrome to FireFox but the initial experience is terrible. Text is rendered very badly. Windows 8.1 Dell Precision M4800 with dual graphics - Intel and AMD FirePro M5100 Fresh install of FF, no addons. Attached is an example from The Guardian. Look at the hairy fonts!... Even the text on this site and this text box is rendered poorly. paradoxically the title text on this page is rendered perfectly ie. this: "Ask your question to our community of users Be nice. Our volunteers are Mozilla users just like you, who take the time out of their day to help. Be descriptive. Saying "Playing video on YouTube is always choppy" will help our volunteers identify your problem better than saying "Something is wrong" or "Firefox is broken". "

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Image did not attach with my post. So here is the image. FF team, your forum has issues with attachments.

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Type about:preferences#content<enter> in the address bar. Across from fonts and colors, press the Advanced button. On the bottom, turn on Allow Web Sites To Choose Their Own.

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Thanks for the quick reply, but that did not help as the option was already ticked. I also need to add that this text that I am typing now in this text box looks great.

The original post text entry box text was rendered poorly, and The Guardian is still terrible to behold.

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You can try to disable OMTC and leave hardware acceleration in Firefox enabled.

  • about:config page: layers.offmainthreadcomposition.enabled = false

You can open the about:config page via the location/address bar. You can accept the warning and click "I'll be careful" to continue.

See also:

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That did not work either. All it did was make FF crash on restart.

I have the latest Intel HD drivers that were pushed by Microsoft yesterday.

The Guardian is still full of fuzzytext.

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Well now I am on my dual Xeon workstation with nVidia GTX970 and The Guardian fuzzytext is gone, however on my monster desktop I now have jerkyvision.

Scrolling happens in large leaps, typing this text happens with a delay...time for another support post.

Overall I was hoping to upgrade from Chrome due to its increasing misbehaviour, but so far FF has been a nightmare and a disappointment.

Two computers, two different UI problems. FF seems to work well on my Ubuntu workstation however.

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Did you already 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.