Firefox Fonts in Ubuntu

Leeum · 25 Jul 2008 at 15:09

Hi there,

I've just switched from Win XP to Ubuntu and find that the fonts in Firefox are very blurry/ unclear. I've installed msttcorefonts which improved things a little but it still doesn't seem right. Has anyone found a setup for Firefox which is almost identical to the fonts in Windows?

Cheers

brummie · 25 Jul 2008 at 23:08

If its an LCD change the font settings

goto SYSTEM - ADMIN - PREFERENCES - APPEARANCE - FONTS -

GraemeUK · 25 Jul 2008 at 23:16

ignore me

sparkey196 · 26 Jul 2008 at 22:12

Font rendering is a bit hit an miss on Linux because different apps use completely different rendering libraries. None of them are as good as XP imo but each to their own.

I've heard that that recompiling firefox with cairo rendering helps a great deal. There's also numerous cairo patches to improve sub-pixel (clear type) rendering.

Theguy · 27 Jul 2008 at 05:23

that was one of the reasons I had to go back from ubuntu to windows tbh. I could not stand the fonts. odd eh

brummie · 28 Jul 2008 at 22:21

Theguy said:
that was one of the reasons I had to go back from ubuntu to windows tbh. I could not stand the fonts. odd eh

But they are so easily changed :confused: