Comments on: Firefox 3 Font Rendering

By: Nick

Nick — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:23:40 +0000

Dan: I set up font rendering via the Gnome Configuration Editor as follows:

In /desktop/gnome/font_rendering, set antialiasing to ‘rgba’, dpi to ’96′, hinting to ‘slight’ and rgba_order to ‘rgb’.

Your own optimum settings may well be different, depending on your monitor, but the above will be a good place to start on LCD types at least.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:12:24 +0000

How did you solve the font rendering issue?
Please share details.

Thanks,
Dan

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 06:25:31 +0000

Actually, I managed to solve the problem after much messing around with the font settings in Gnome. Even after switching back to KDE, Firefox 3 picks up the Gnome settings.

By: James Mason

James Mason — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:17:10 +0000

I feel your pain. As someone prone to visual migranes, firefox 3 is, quite literally, painful.

Since Mozilla has taken the approach that this is up to the packagers, I’ve posted a bug on Novell’s bugzilla. Feel free to add a few votes!

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=401537