On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 08:27:17AM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote:

> >> http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0/contrib/solaris_pkgadd/
> > 
> > They've still not fixed the fonts problem :(
> > 
> > http://movementarian.org/firefox3-solaris.png
> 
> What's the problem there and what makes you think Firefox can do anything
> about it, when it's likely just using GTK/Pango/Fontconfig/Freetype from
> the system?   (I can't tell what that picture is trying to show other than

Firefox can most certainly do something about it, since FF2 isn't
broken, and nor is any other application on the system.

> different methods of anti-aliasing, and have no idea which you think is
> better or worse, or how you got the two different versions.)

I don't know what kind of display you have, but on my LCD it's very
obvious that Firefox 2 (on the right) has clear and readable fonts, and
Firefox 3 (on the left) has dreadfully muddy ones.

If you have a config option to turn the latter into the former, I'd be
super happy. I couldn't find anything, beyond turning off anti-aliasing
altogether, which is even worse.

regards
john

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