Firefox/Thunderbird Font Rendering changed after upgrade of xulrunner

karol · 2010-10-01 12:27:27

unknwn wrote:

However you will have to build firefox-pgo itself however this package gives performance boost.

And takes ages to compile ;P

Does it use the internal cairo?

unknwn · 2010-10-01 13:53:22

karol wrote:

unknwn wrote:
However you will have to build firefox-pgo itself however this package gives performance boost.
And takes ages to compile ;P
Does it use the internal cairo?

Xulrunner also isn't the fastest to build and you won't have additional benefit from it.
firefox-pgo package uses option --enable-system-cairo. It will benefit from third party cairo packages. It uses global font config and is independent from xulrunner.
firefox-pgo feels really snappy on my system

Jurassic · 2010-10-01 16:46:37

Could've been a great way out to fix these ugly fonts on my high-dpi LCD, but libgnomeui as a dependency?? No thanks...
Is there a binary package for this?

unknwn wrote:

For people having this issue with firefox i also suggest to try firefox-pgo/beta package which doesn't use xulrunner so it is not necessary to build it. However you will have to build firefox-pgo itself however this package gives performance boost.

karol · 2010-10-01 16:50:15

IIRC the idea is that you _profile_ (that's the 'p' in -pgo) the code on your setup, so I don't think a binary would make sense.

Jurassic · 2010-10-01 16:56:37

I get the idea, but at this point I'd rather run it profiled for any x86 machine than installing libgnomeui, not to mention looking at my current FF/Thunderbird

karol · 2010-10-01 17:11:11

firefox-beta (XULRunner independent) from

[heftig]
Server=http://archlinux.ro/~heftig/repo/$arch

Maybe
firefox-beta: Standalone web browser from mozilla.org, beta build - binaries
from

[archstuff]
# AUR's most voted packages
Server = http://archstuff.vs169092.vserver.de/i686

How do they perform the rendering - I have no idea.

Last edited by karol (2010-10-01 17:22:10)

Jurassic · 2010-10-01 17:36:23

Thanks karol, will give it a shot if -pgo build fails on me.
BTW, I removed libgnomeui from the dependencies and so far it didn't complain, we'll see...

EDIT: Build successfully completed! Running -pgo version and enjoying my smooth fonts Will test the performance later, after having thunderbird fixed.

Last edited by Jurassic (2010-10-01 18:03:15)

broch · 2010-10-01 22:11:37

use abs
build firefox without libgnomeui (or whatever you don't need)
use system cairo
pgo is not per machine but per usage scenarios so unless your firefox is used for something else that standard application, you can get binary. -pgo is crappy anyway, icc is better though still far behind windows icc.

firefox-beta (XULRunner independent) from... How do they perform the rendering - I have no idea.

LOL I bet this is magic...

building firefox (without xulrunner) is much faster than building -pgo. As I mentioned, -pgo will not improve performance.

TheMuffinMan · 2010-10-04 17:37:03

Is there a good solution to this yet?

I seem to be having the same problem.

perseus · 2010-10-04 18:13:50

I use only firefox. Singul's xulrunner-system-cairo from AUR (for which I am very, very grateful), gets rid of the disgusting, hideous, unusable font changes for me.

Leonid.I · 2010-10-04 19:20:14

So... I have no problem running stock FF on an external LCD. Can someone tell me how to make my fonts ugly, so that I can complain too ?

cosmo0 · 2010-10-09 23:05:01

Just wanted to say, since this thread is being linked as a solution to ciaro-lcd problems eg here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=105835 ... would be nice if it contained solution to ciaro-lcd problems

I too find things like cyrillic font rendering, fonts on coloured background, mozilla not hurting my eyes to point of unusability important and LOLed several times reading softtower's funny strong words!

just went to pacman -Syu and I see ' cairo and cairo-lcd are in conflict. Remove cairo-lcd? [y/N] '

ZOMG headaches, search and find ciaro-lcd is deprecated and so of course I will Y to above... looks like I will spend several hours of my Sunday in lynx on console sorting this out...

It's fine to talk about upstream vs downstream and the end user must be competent etc but gee... would be nice if fonts 'just worked' - just sayin'

And I'm truely happy for the people who have no problem with this problem

BTW I installed cairo-lcd following wiki article when I first was found by Arch, good intro to AUR but adding my voice to the 'font's are pretty core' crowd

cosmo0 goes away to continue Sunday morning pacman -Syu...

cosmo0 · 2010-10-09 23:55:30

*amazingly* after pacman -Syu with Y(es) to remove cairo-lcd...

no major breakage (a little unrelated compiz wierdness but I'm liking compiz wierdness )

I guess the moral is YMMV ... fonts, even cyrillic are now quite OK on my laptop LCD without cairo-lcd

Heema · 2010-10-19 01:18:27

perseus wrote:

I use only firefox. Singul's xulrunner-system-cairo from AUR (for which I am very, very grateful), gets rid of the disgusting, hideous, unusable font changes for me.

Thanks that fixed it for me too

memeplex · 2011-01-21 06:28:32

Are there any news on this topic? You've my vote to link the official xulrunner package to system cairo again. Really, the AUR is awesome for things like gmpc-plugins, urxvt-tabbedex or dwm-one-less-loc-patch but not for fixing firefox font rendering.

fettouhi · 2011-02-15 09:55:04

I would be nice if this could get included in xulrunner again when firefox 4.0 hits.

JokerBoy · 2011-02-15 10:36:59

the patch attached here works for me with system cairo enabled on 3.6.x.

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