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Sunday, 23 January 2011

Ubuntu 10.x Firefox font rendering fix for Gnome

As a Ubuntu user you may notice Firefox does not obey the Gnome Appearance Setting with respect to the font rendering.

To make Firefox match your Gnome font rendering setting, simply erase the following file links in the /etc/fonts/conf.d folder

10-antialias.conf
10-hinting.conf
10-hinting-slight.conf

In a terminal type,

cd /etc/fonts/conf.d

sudo rm 10-*.conf


Restart Firefox for the changes to take effect.

How to restore the symbolic links

sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-antialias.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/

3 comments:

  1. Since that is a change which isn't specific to Firefox, what more does this affect?

    Note, those 10.* files don't exist in my conf.d/ folder on Debian Squeeze with KDE and the Iceweasel browser.

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  2. As far as I am aware all mozilla apps, such as Thunderbird.

    This is a Ubuntu specific tweak, not Debian.

    Added how to restore the sym links

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  3. Thanks so much for posting this!

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