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estangl

Member

Registered: 2008-05-17

Posts: 17

Poor firefox Chinese performance

Dear all:

I tried different version of Firefox and all suffer from poor Chinese rendering performance. Opera works better at a cost of rendering quality.
I wonder whether this is related to font or something else? What can I do about it?

Thank you

Kind regards

D.
font list : family

Clean
Century Schoolbook L
Helvetica
Andale Mono
Trebuchet MS
LucidaBright
Webdings
DejaVu Sans Mono
Arial Black
Lucida
Verdana
URW Palladio L
Bitstream Vera Sans
Charter
Terminal
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
URW Gothic L
Dingbats
URW Chancery L
Times New Roman
LucidaTypewriter
Bitstream Vera Serif
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Light
ClearlyU PUA
DejaVu Sans
DejaVu Serif,DejaVu Serif Condensed
Times
Utopia
ClearlyU
DejaVu Sans,DejaVu Sans Condensed
Comic Sans MS
Nimbus Sans L
Standard Symbols L
Nimbus Mono L
Courier
ClearlyU Alternate Glyphs
Nimbus Roman No9 L
Fixed
Georgia
Arial
Courier New
DejaVu Serif
Newspaper
New Century Schoolbook
Tahoma
Impact
URW Bookman L

semdornus

Member

From: Tokyo

Registered: 2007-08-07

Posts: 47

Re: Poor firefox Chinese performance

I don't know if it's related, but have you tried specific fonts for Chinese like the arphic fonts?

Also, is freetype enabled in firefox? This would also help I guess http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_F … fox_1.0.2B.
EDIT, don't just copy that since it's quite specific. Try enabling freetype2, autohinted and disable unhinted in about:config first. See http://opensuse-community.org/SubpixelH … figuration.

Last edited by semdornus (2008-05-18 01:43:08)

hk2717

Member

From: China

Registered: 2007-09-13

Posts: 217

Re: Poor firefox Chinese performance

Configure your fonts.conf properly and Firefox (with its default config) should have perfect Chinese rendering, according to my own experience. You may search the wiki for some fonts config guide.

Edit: I noticed that you haven't installed any proper Chinese font. I suggest you running "pacman -S wqy-bitmapfont wqy-zenhei" to install the good-looking and FREE fonts from WenQuanYi project.

Last edited by hk2717 (2008-05-18 14:53:08)

estangl

Member

Registered: 2008-05-17

Posts: 17

Re: Poor firefox Chinese performance

Thank you both semdornus and hk2717.
Problem solved after installing new fonts.....

Going to try out the freetype library......It is not enabled in about:config or pref.js -- is it necessary to enable it?  - The performance is OK at the moment
Best,
D.

Last edited by estangl (2008-05-19 17:29:33)