OK , with Melko I've found out what's going on. It seems I have 2 packages
: font-adobe-75dpi and font-adobe-100dpi which contain a Helvetica font.
The website asks for a font from this family: font-family:
verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;
 Since I don't have verdana or arial ( I don't have the MS fonts package )
it chooses the helvetica bitmap version which is finds in those 2 packages
mentioned earlier.
 One way to avoid this is to have the liberation-fonts package installed
since then it will choose these before Helvetica. Another option is to just
remove those adobe font packages in wich case it will use
ttf-bitstream-vera.
 I'm looking into moving the adobe font packages into extra and pulling
liberation-fonts into base.


On Sat, Nov 30, 2013 at 3:34 PM, Marius Cirsta <[email protected]> wrote:

>  I've noticed that my font look really ugly in Firefox in current when
> using current and KDE. Upon investigating ( inspect object in Firefox )
> I've traced the problem to websites using a Helvetica font, a bitmap
> version which look really bad, very aliased and jagged.
>  I'm not sure what the solution for this is by I've noticed that Kubuntu
> uses another font in this case in Firefox, Liberation as I recall and it
> looks much, much better. Maybe this is because Kubuntu uses only ttf fonts
> as far as I can tell.
>  Should we maybe disable all bitmap fonts and use ttf ones instead ? Or al
> least in this case ?
>
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