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Poor font rendering the downside of Firefox 4 beta's hardware acceleration (input.mozilla.com)
1 point by simonsquiff on Sept 8, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Here are some examples with hardware acceleration on (left) and off (right)

http://a.imageshack.us/img231/5900/firefox42.png

Obviously the header text here is completely messed up. But the normal text is horrible too. Look at the N and the D at the beginning of the first posts - previously nice and sharp 1 pixel lines, now 2 pixels. The T on The on the third post runs into the h, rather than having a gap. The text was previously sharp and crisp, now it looks blurry.

http://a.imageshack.us/img291/9493/firefoxbeforeafter.png

Look at 'sebastianmarshall.com' on line 4 - it's so much more compressed. In fact, before it is 139px wide, with acceleration it is only 132px wide: it's not just the look, it's actually changing the dimensions of the text!




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