I can confirm it on lucid with firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1. Deactivate all smoothing and hinting. Then you will see that every font looks ugly except firefox.
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed -- [MASTER] Firefox-3.6 doesn't respect font settings https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/512561 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs