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lucid firefox antialias color aberration

Bug #554006 reported by DLCBurggraaff on 2010-04-02

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)	New	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

Upgraded from Karmic to Lucid Beta 1 + updates.
In Firefox 3.6.2 it looks like the text in the menus, pages and e.g. about:config is anti-aliased twice, causing ugly bluish and purplish color aberrations.
It is only Firefox, in e.g. Nautilus or Gedit the phenomenon does not occur.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 2 16:57:53 2010
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 3.6.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
firefox-gnome-support 3.6.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
firefox-branding 3.6.2+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
abroswer N/A
abrowser-branding N/A
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox

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DLCBurggraaff (burdi) wrote on 2010-04-02:

Dependencies.txt Edit (3.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ExtensionSummary.txt Edit (464 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profile_default_pluginreg.dat.txt Edit (10.6 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
profiles.ini.txt Edit (94 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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DLCBurggraaff (burdi) wrote on 2010-04-02:

I am running with nvidia-current-195.36.15 with anti-aliasing (hinting: full, sub-pixel order: RGB) and Custom DPI setting: 96.
I never saw this phenomenon in previous Ubuntu, Xubuntu versions or other Linuxes.
The effect reminds me of those of a low-quality analog display I had to work with several years ago.

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Micah Gersten (micahg) wrote on 2010-04-02:

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.