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fonts on many pages are not anti-aliased and look very bad, they look like what in opera is called core x fonts, which I always disable to get nice fonts. In firefox there is an option to not allow webpages to choose their own fonts which fixes the bad looking fonts but also affects all other pages which then start using the font specified....

 

is there an option to turn off core x fonts somewhere or to always anti-alias fonts?

 

 

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Well I've just tried FF3 and almost immediately changed back to V2. As you say FFI the fonts are shocking. All the eyecandy does not improve on the looks either, but that may be me. I didn't stay with it long enough to try and like it. No back I came to a browser I can read the pages comfortably.

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I've just downloaded the rpm from the repos which it states is a release candidate and the fonts on all pages render correctly now, much better for these poor eyes. The previous version was downloaded from Mozilla and displayed just what ffi was getting. The two example pages that were given as examples were noticeably different. I have now turned on anti aliasing and the quality has improved even further. One thing I haven't done is install windows fonts. Many sites use these fonts and the substitutes are not quite as good. Could it be that Ubuntu have used windows fonts on one of their pages?

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This is from http://beranger.org/ Maybe it is of some help.

 

Who the bleep is using bitmap fonts these days? To avoid weird font substitution that make some pages look awful in Firefox, the first thing I do is not to install extra fonts, but to disable the bitmap fonts. As root: ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf. (It works in Debian, it worked in Mandriva, you can do it in a similar way in other distros too.)
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