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Date:      Fri, 12 Feb 2016 00:07:21 +0100
From:      Tobias Kortkamp <t@tobik.me>
To:        Yuri <yuri@rawbw.com>, FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Firefox has rough, non-antialised fonts. Anybody knows how to correct?
Message-ID:  <1455232041.461060.518893674.5947DE04@webmail.messagingengine.com>
In-Reply-To: <56BD0DC0.10401@rawbw.com>
References:  <56BD0DC0.10401@rawbw.com>

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Bitmap fonts are enabled by default. You can disable them globally by
running

  ln -s /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.avail/70-no-bitmaps.conf
  /usr/local/etc/fonts/conf.d/70-no-bitmaps.conf

Chromium seems to do its own thing regarding font rendering.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2016, at 11:40 PM, Yuri wrote:
> For some reason firefox-42.0 has non-antialiased fonts, at least some of 
> them, and this makes it look poor. Comparing to chrome where fonts look 
> much better.
> 
> I also heard complaints from some other FreeBSD users that fonts 
> generally look noticeably worse than in Arch out of the box, though I 
> didn't notice this myself.
> 
> Anybody knows what is the reason of this Firefox font issue?
> 
> Yuri
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