1946024 - Worse font rendering on Windows

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[Aubin Van Olden]

Attachment: Comparison of Firefox 134 vs 135 text rendering

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:135.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/135.0

Steps to reproduce:

Updated to Firefox 135.

Actual results:

The font rendering became bolder in Firefox 135, affecting both Firefox UI and web pages rendering. This makes the text rendering worse, and harder to read, more particularly on small text.

Expected results:

The font rendering on Firefox 134 was sharper and was better to read on small text.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Layout: Text and Fonts' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please correct in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Jamie Nicol [:jnicol]]

Jonathan, any changers in 135 you can think of that may have caused this?

Comment 3

[theryuu]

It's a result of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1942335

Comment 4

[Aubin Van Olden]

I found a temporary workaround by re-enabling manually the force GDI Classic fonts present on Firefox 134. But this will be a problem (for me at least, and for the other person who reported 1946533) if the configuration is definitely removed in the future