[Nix-dev] firefox 21 font rendering

Petar Bogdanovic petar at smokva.net
Thu Jun 20 15:40:43 CEST 2013


On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 02:07:08PM +0200, Mathijs Kwik wrote:
>
> The old behavior (ff20) was not to use the system libraries and thus
> not use the system-wide font rendering config, but use an oldschool
> default, regardless of the rest of the system.

With system-wide you mean settings in fonts.conf?


> Anyway, let's first try to find out why subpixel rendering doesn't
> look good for you.
> Please have a look at http://www.lagom.nl/lcd-test/img/subpixel.png to
> find out the subpixel-order of your screen.

I think that I see a very tiny black edge on the left side.  Which means
RGB, I guess.

After reviewing the screenshots, I still think that 21 is just a blurry
version of 20.  Even when displayed by ff on OSX.


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