[solved] Firefox displays ugly fonts and chromium good fonts?

xanb · 2015-03-11 12:11:19

Hi,

When I go to some pages (for example github), I see those pages with ugly fonts in firefox while with good fonts in Chromium. I have the defaults settings.
Can you look at this and see what I say (zoom it).

Any hints?

Thanks in advance,

Last edited by xanb (2015-03-11 14:45:19)

Alad · 2015-03-11 12:50:05

That's as meaningful as "Nvidia gives me good graphics, AMD doesn't". Please provide some detail: GPU+drivers, recent updates, desktop environment or lack thereof, font settings and packages, DPI and monitor, wiki articles you have followed, and so on.

Last edited by Alad (2015-03-11 12:52:10)

skottish · 2015-03-11 13:06:10

There are a number of threads on the forums dealing with firefox, github, and fonts. Just search for those three terms.

xanb · 2015-03-11 14:40:47

I found it here the same problem. The solution disable bitmap fonts:

$ sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

Why this section is removed in new versions of Firefox Wiki page?

karol · 2015-03-11 14:53:30

xanb wrote:

Why this section is removed in new versions of Firefox Wiki page?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=309161

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … tmap_fonts

xanb · 2015-03-12 12:33:06

The changelog says that Firefox instructions are put in Fonts Page. But in the Fonts page there is no tricky for the Firefox. Perhaps in the "Disable bitmap fonts" section we should refer to Firefox problems, don't we?

Alad · 2015-03-12 13:04:32

You could add a sentence to the Firefox article linking to Font configuration.

It would be better though if that sentence would include an actual reason why Firefox struggles with bitmap fonts, compared to Chrome (40+?) - "It can happen that" is not really statisfactory.

xanb · 2015-03-12 14:26:32

Alad wrote:

You could add a sentence to the Firefox article linking to Font configuration.
It would be better though if that sentence would include an actual reason why Firefox struggles with bitmap fonts, compared to Chrome (40+?) - "It can happen that" is not really statisfactory.

Better if you do. Perhaps you know the reasons of bad behaviour of Firefox. I don't

karol · 2015-03-12 18:36:03

I'm not sure I understand. Are you sure it's a firefox-exclusive issue? If not, it belongs to a fonts article.
D you want to post a hint in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fi … eaks#Fonts with a link directly to
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Fo … tmap_fonts ?

xanb · 2015-03-13 14:25:30

Done: firefox tricks...

brebs · 2015-03-13 15:11:15

xanb wrote:

ugly fonts in firefox while with good fonts in Chromium. I have the defaults settings.

It's chrome that is naughty.

Do your eyes a favour - install Infinality's rendering via bohoomil's packages

And yes, bitmap fonts should be *disabled*, e.g. in the fontconfig rules:

    <!-- Prevent Gnome from using embedded bitmaps in fonts like Calibri -->
    <match target="font">
        <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign"><bool>false</bool></edit>
    </match>

    <!-- Reject bitmap fonts in favour of Truetype, Postscript, etc. -->
    <selectfont><rejectfont><pattern>
        <patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
    </pattern></rejectfont></selectfont>

    <!-- Substitute truetype fonts for bitmap ones -->
    <match target="font">
        <edit name="prefer_outline"><bool>true</bool></edit>
    </match>

Alad · 2015-03-13 15:41:07

brebs wrote:

xanb wrote:
ugly fonts in firefox while with good fonts in Chromium. I have the defaults settings.
It's chrome that is naughty.

See, that's what I meant with reasoning. You'd rather include a note in the Chromium article explaining why the browser won't behave WRT fonts.

Last edited by Alad (2015-03-13 15:42:34)

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