====== How to fix font rendering of Firefox 3.5 under Ubuntu 9.04 ======

The problem is that Firefox 3.5 doesn't seem to use font hinting and therefore looks ugly while the default version (3.0) is OK.

After some googling I found out that 3.5 doesn't use GNOME font settings and relies on fontconfig.

Font configuration is stored in /etc/fonts/conf.d/[0-9][0-9]*.conf files. By convention, config files starting with 10 through 19 control font rendering (see /etc/fonts/conf.d/README) and, in fact, are symlinks to the corresponding files in the /etc/fonts/conf.avail directory.

My experiments have shown that it is enough to disable the 10-hinting-slight.conf symlink by removing or just renaming it:

    sudo mv /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf{,.disabled}
    sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig


{{tag>firefox-3.5 font-hinting font-rendering jaunty ubuntu}}

Source: http://www.timka.org/tech/2009/05/02/firefox-3.5-in-jaunty/

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