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font is ugly and it hurts my eyes

Bug #544791 reported by swoll1980 on 2010-03-23

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #512615: fonts are incorrectly rendered due to not using system cairo. Edit Remove

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Incomplete	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

I'm using the 10.04 beta the font in firefox does not appear to be using the subpixel smoothing. The fonts are very ugly, and hurt my eyes. Because of this I have been using chromium which renders the fonts fine.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Mar 23 00:35:50 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
firefox-gnome-support 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
firefox-branding 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
abroswer N/A
abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Error: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/installer/media-info'
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: firefox 3.6+nobinonly-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-16.25-generic
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-16-generic x86_64

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swoll1980 (swoll1980) wrote on 2010-03-23:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.1 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (350 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profile_default_pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (5.5 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-03-23:

Thank you for reporting this to Ubuntu. Could you please tell us if this is Bug #512561 or Bug #512615 so that I can mark it the duplicate of the appropriate one.
Thanks.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Incomplete

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swoll1980 (swoll1980) wrote on 2010-03-30:

sounds like #512615

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-04-01:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 512615, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.