Firefox 3.6 font smoothing does not honor gnome-settings
Bug #559149 reported by
Benjamin Drung
This bug report is a duplicate of:
Bug #379761: MASTER - Font hinting does not honour gnome-settings in Firefox.
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Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox (Ubuntu) |
Triaged
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High
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: firefox
Firefox 3.6 font smoothing does not honor gnome-settings.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Apr 9 13:45:33 2010
FirefoxPackages:
firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly
firefox-
firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly
abroswer N/A
abrowser-branding N/A
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=de_DE.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: firefox
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → High |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in firefox (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → pipo (hector-daer) |
description: | updated |
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I can confirm this. In Ubuntu 9.10, font rendering in Firefox was perfectly fine. After 10.4 upgrade, Firefox nolonger renders fonts as specified in gnome's appearance settings. It is like it is doing it's own antialiasing, but ignoring the subpixel smoothing options.
I have attached a screenshot comparing Firefox and Chromium, along with the appearance properties dialog, and character map. In this screenshot, Firefox is rendering fonts incorrectly.
This also seems to affect Thunderbird in Ubuntu 10.4.