The font settings you chose in gnome preferences, "subpixel smoothing" (subpixel + full hinting), aren't used by firefox which is apparently using "best shapes" (grayscale + medium hinting) Gnome exports Xft resources (see output of: xrdb -q |grep Xft) You should see rgba=rgb (subpixel), and hintstyle=hintfull (full hinting)
Now I'm not sure why firefox doesn't use that. Maybe you've conflicting fontconfig settings. Do you have a ~/.fonts.conf file? -- Semi-random ugly font rendering in Edgy (no font hinting) https://launchpad.net/bugs/63403 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
