Ubuntu
firefox package

  1. Bug #379761
  2. Comment #33

Comment 33 for bug 379761

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Krzysztof Kosinski (tweenk) wrote : Re: MASTER - FF 3.5 font hinting does not honour gnome-settings

The apparent culprit is /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf from the binary package fontconfig-config (source package fontconfig); Firefox uses the settings from this file instead of using the desktop's settings. Removing that file brings back the correct behavior (hinting matches desktop). I'm not sure whether this is a bug in Firefox or Fontconfig because other programs do not show this behavior.