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Dun

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Registered: 2014-12-28

Posts: 98

[SOLVED]Fonts for Firefox

Chrome is getting even more bloaty than Firefox ever was, so I switched back but encountered a cosmetical problem with my setup.

As you can see some parts are rendered pretty badly, some not and I have no idea why. There are old threads about this but the solutions were always switching states of variables of Firefox which doesn't exist anymore in the current version. I also switched off hardware acceleration.

I disabled "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above" in Firefox and it looks like this:

Could someone explain this to me?

Last edited by Dun (2015-09-08 16:40:58)

wrkerr

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Registered: 2015-04-02

Posts: 18

Re: [SOLVED]Fonts for Firefox

What fonts do you have set in Firefox's options as the defaults?

Do you have a few high quality font families installed (e.g. DejaVu, Liberation, Noto, Heuristica), for the browser to draw from, and fall back on if a site calls for one you don't have?

What font rendering preferences to you have set up in your environment?

I use Firefox in Gnome, with the infinality font setup described in the wiki, and everything is beautiful. My default fonts in Firefox are Heuristica, Noto Sans, and Liberation Mono (from the infinality repo), and I allow websites to automatically determine their own fonts.

Setting the defaults to Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans, and Liberation Mono would probably give you the fewest layout issues though, and is probably still a good "best practice."

Last edited by wrkerr (2015-09-08 16:51:54)

Dun

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Registered: 2014-12-28

Posts: 98

Re: [SOLVED]Fonts for Firefox

What fonts do you have set in Firefox's options as the defaults?

Do you have some high quality fonts installed? (e.g. DejaVu, Liberation, Noto, Heuristica)

What font rendering preferences to you have set up in your environment?

I use Firefox in Gnome, with the infinality font setup described in the wiki, and everything is beautiful. My default fonts in Firefox are Heuristica, Noto Sans, and Liberation Mono (from the infinality repo), but I allow websites to automatically display their own fonts.

Setting the defaults to Liberation Serif, Liberation Sans, and Liberation Mono would probably give you the fewest layout issues though, and is probably still a good "best practice."

I set it now to Helvetica and disabled websites own fonts and it's much better now. The source of my problem seems to be some old fonts in my system which are used by several sites. Now I have to find those.
Thanks for your help.

Roken

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From: South Wales, UK

Registered: 2012-01-16

Posts: 1,372

Re: [SOLVED]Fonts for Firefox

I had this problem - removing infiinality and installing infinality-ultimate then setting the base fonts worked for me (facebook was particularly ugly before I did this, but then, facebook is always something to steer clear of).

Last edited by Roken (2015-09-08 20:58:58)

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