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  1. Bug #379761
  2. Comment #58

Comment 58 for bug 379761

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

All I read are, IMHO, workarounds, but not more.

The problem lies with the fact that, even though firefox-3.5 honors font configuration as configured by fontconfig-config (/etc/fonts/conf.d, ~/.font.conf, etc.), GNOME does not use the same system to configure fonts, or at least font hinting. It seems KDE does (see bug #390975 (dupe)).

Is this a firefox bug? Or a gnome bug? Maybe neither. I don't know the considerations of gnome to not use fontconfig-config, but I think they want to keep all configuration in gconf?

Maybe this should be a feature in firefox-3.5-gnome-support?