Hi all,
As I've already told some people on IRC, I recently experienced a very
bad degradation of font display quality in SeaMonkey, affecting both
chrome (menus) and content. I couldn't explain what happened since
Firefox was unaffected even though it uses the same back-end and font
settings.
Today I found the issue: I have a very recent NVIDIA graphics card which
supports FXAA (Fast Approximate Anti-Aliasing) which can be enabled via
the driver (NVIDIA Control Panel, 3D Settings, Manage 3D settings,
Global Settings, Antialiasing - FXAA). You can enable or disable it
globally, but override the choice for certain applications.
Incidentally, NVIDIA ships a default profile for Mozilla Firefox which
disables FXAA for that application. Of course there's no SeaMonkey
profile by default...
Anyway, disabling FXAA globally solved the issue for me. YMMV.
HTH
Jens
P.S.: You might wonder why the NVIDIA driver thinks SM is a 3D
application. Well, nowadays it uses hardware acceleration (e.g. Direct3D
10) and supports WebGL, that's why.
--
Jens Hatlak <http://jens.hatlak.de/>
SeaMonkey Trunk Tracker <http://smtt.blogspot.com/>
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