Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #379761
  2. Comment #135

Comment 135 for bug 379761

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In , Mozilla-behdad (mozilla-behdad) wrote :

Ubuntu patches cairo and fontconfig to use the newer FreeType subpixel filters, whereas upstream cairo doesn't (yet). The whole thing is very controversial since those filters are suspected to infringe patents in the US...

So, that's where the discrepancy comes from...