Updates to fontconfig uglify firefox

[Andrew Somerville]

fontconfig-2.3.2-1.1ubuntu10 changes some of the fonts in firefox. New fonts significantly reduce the readablity of many websites including http://slashdot.org and http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&resolution=DUPLICATE&resolution=---&bugidtype=include&cmdtype=doit&component=fontconfig

[Laurent Bigonville (bigon)]

I can confirm this the fonts look smaller, this sometimes reduces readability

[Andrew Somerville (andy-somerville)]

Its not just the size, the typeface difference is also a big factor, along with the poorer rendering of some of those type faces, are also important. The former font configuration was preferable in Firefox.

[João Pinto (joaopinto)]

The changes on the foncontig were related to Bug #39447, the newest update (which from the changelog was expected to be a better fix) repeats the symptom: horrible, hardly readable fonts on firefox.

[Bruce Cowan (bruce89-deactivatedaccount)]

Mine's alright with fontconfig 2.3.2-1.1ubuntu10. You shouldn't be using Ubuntu Bugzilla though.

[Andrew Somerville (andy-somerville)]

(hmm, lost a comment)
This report is regarding the reintroduction of the bug present in 8 to v10, and therefore is not duplicate. Apparently v9 fixed the bug and v 10 broke it again.

For those who do not notice the difference, its possible that you have, in the past, customized the fonts for firefox and so dont see the change.

[rubinstein (rubinstein)]

Is there a reason why we have this separate bug report? I think this bug is a duplicate of Bug #39447, feel free to reopen if necessary.

[rubinstein (rubinstein)]

Ok, don't read the last comment by Andy Somerville; but I don't think this is a valid reason; in Bug #39447 there are already comments about the reintroduction of the problem.