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ajstein

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Registered: 2013-11-03

Posts: 36

[SOLVED] Conkeror (xulrunner 31.0) Font Degradation

Howdy everyone.  I regularly use Conkeror on my laptop running in i3.  I have in the i3 window manager Inconsolata font set as my default.  I am not sure if this is a problem or not, but a recent update to Firefox 31.0 and xulrunner 31.0 (underlying Conkeror) has led to a serious degradation in font rendering in Conkeror.  I have tried loading the same page in Firefox 31.0 post-update, and Firefox appears better (I know Firefox has its own xulrunner compiled in, but I thought this would be a more objective comparison).  I have updated with pacman and no new updates.  Rebooted and Firefox still looks better font wise.

Any Conkeror user experiencing the same problem?

Last edited by ajstein (2014-07-26 18:43:17)

ajstein

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Registered: 2013-11-03

Posts: 36

Re: [SOLVED] Conkeror (xulrunner 31.0) Font Degradation

Sigh, it appearances I messed something up not with xulrunner, but in general with my GNOME configuration.  The ugly font issue was fixed by using lxappearance to properly set up the theme and fonts for GNOME again.  It appears case closed for now.