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List:       opensolaris-desktop-discuss
Subject:    Re: [desktop-discuss] fonts and firefox3
From:       Guido Berhoerster <guido+opensolaris.org () berhoerster ! name>
Date:       2008-09-25 0:37:50
Message-ID: 20080925003750.GC8718 () hal
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* Jay Twery <jay@trdlnk.com> [2008-09-24 23:29]:
> I'm using Solaris 10 and just tried upgrading from Firefox 2 to Firefox
> 3. When using Firefox 3, my fonts look really bad and the characters are
> difficult to read. Can anybody help me to figure out what is causing this?

I just filed bug #3586 with a screenshot attached, please see if
this is the problem you're observing. "Bad" font rendering seems
to be caused by Firefox 3 using a version of libcairo which is
not capable of rendering fonts with full hinting. See also my
thread from last week
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=75254

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Guido Berhoerster
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