Comment 20 for bug 210921

IMHO the discussion about the best defaults is a vain one.
The apps of Ubuntu must conform to the GTK settings chosen by the user. Period.
The defaults are just that, defaults.

Firefox is primitively a QT app, is it?
AFAIK Ubuntu used to have a daemon to replicate the GTK settings to the QT counterpart, which is obviously not working here or be started too early or too late.
Unfortunaltely i am not able to give more details, I used to be confronted to this problem half a year ago with XFCE and cannot remember more about this daemon.
Currently the system wide settings are working... sometimes, never from booting, just fiddle around with the system settings and it will come.

The most evident setting to find out is my favourite one: all prop fonts set to arial/times, full hinting, no anti-aliasing.
You get 100% crisp fonts or a blurry crap, depending of if it works or not.

Regards
Laszlo