[OpenIndiana-discuss] Poor text antialiasing behaviour in Firefox

[Guido Berhoerster]

* Dave Koelmeyer <davekoelmeyer at me.com> [2010-12-19 14:13]:
> Hi,
> 
> I posted this over on OpenSolaris.org, but FWIW:
> 
> This has always bugged me for as long as I can remember, and I
> wonder if anyone knows why.
> 
> Firefox 3.6.8 in Ubuntu:
> 
> http://www.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/docs/Ubuntu1004Firefox368.png
> 
> All headings and text are antialised, and page appears fine.
> 
> Now, compare with the same page in Firefox 3.6.12 on
> OpenSolaris/OpenIndiana:
> 
> http://www.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/docs/oi_147Firefox3612.png
> 
> Most text elements by comparison are pretty jagged, but the headings
> are particularly ugly.
> 
> Interestingly, this is the same page, but zoomed in two increments:
> 
> http://www.davekoelmeyer.co.nz/docs/oi_147Firefox3612-zoomed.png
> 
> Note that main heading ("DATAZUUL") is now displaying with nicely
> antialiased edges.
> 
> All the above examples are on stock-standard installs of Firefox,
> with fonts settings left at defaults.
> 
> Any ideas?

If you want to get completely rid of bitmaps font in applications
that use fontconfig you can either enable
/etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf (which is what Ubuntu
does) or put its contents in your ${HOME}/.fonts.conf. For
details  see fonts.conf(5)

-- 
Guido Berhoerster