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brutus

Member

From: DK

Registered: 2005-08-03

Posts: 15

Ugly Firefox fonts

Why do fonts on some sites look so terrible in Firefox??

Example:

I use KDE, but this also happens in GNOME (installed on one of my other computers).

The text on this forum isn't beautiful either:

I have tried to enable freetype2 in Firefox's about:config, no difference...
It doesn't happen in any other applications - what can I do?

ozar

Member

From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

Posts: 1,686

Re: Ugly Firefox fonts

Fonts with Arch and Firefox have always looked bad for me, too.  I generally just set Firefox to "always use my fonts" in preferences.  Another option that worked was to delete the helvetica fonts from my system using the KDE Control Center, then restarting X.

Some users say adding the mscorefonts fixes them but that has always caused additional fonts issues for me, so no more mscorefonts on this box.

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oz

brutus

Member

From: DK

Registered: 2005-08-03

Posts: 15

Re: Ugly Firefox fonts

Thank you!

Looks like it's working.