Closed
Bug 412832
Opened 17 years ago
Closed 13 years ago
Regression in font appearance since Firefox 2. Hinting looks unacceptable bad.
Categories
(Firefox :: General, defect)
Tracking
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RESOLVED
INCOMPLETE
People
(Reporter: simon.ochsenreither, Unassigned)
References
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Details
(Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2011-1-30])
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011404 Minefield/3.0b3pre Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011404 Minefield/3.0b3pre The nighlty builds have a significantly degraded font rendering quality. Fonts don't display in there requested color, e. g. black, but in a mixture of red, black and green for instance, which is quite likely a hinting problem. FreeType's autohinter is used. (When using bytecode-hinting, the fonts look like in Firefox 2: http://ochsenreither.de/~soc/rendering_h-strong.png ) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start Firefox 2. Browse to any website Actual Results: Fonts will look ugly. http://ochsenreither.de/~soc/rendering.png Expected Results: Fonts shouldn't look ugly, at least the level of font quality seen in Firefox 2 should be reached. http://ochsenreither.de/~soc/rendering_ok.png In my opinion the severity is 'major', because readable text is one of the most important features a browser should provide. (Additionally, I don't want to stay at Firefox 2, because of that unbearable bug ... so hopefully it gets fixed faster that way :-P)
Here is a close up that shows the difference between rendering.png and rendering_ok.png (I agree it looks worse in ff3 but when these images were zoomed out I didn't see the difference directly).
Exact version of ff3 nightly build was: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011604 Minefield/3.0b3pre Looks almost identical on my machine, maybe it uses some other kind of hinting or something?
Comment 3•17 years ago
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Fonts appear fine to me on nightly: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b3pre) Gecko/2008011704 Minefield/3.0b3pre Kubuntu 7.10
Comment 4•17 years ago
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Martin, what distribution are you using? This is certainly bug 404637 Some distribution patch Cairo so that you get less color fringes when not using the autohinter.
Comment 5•17 years ago
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(In reply to comment #4) > ... when not using the autohinter. err, rather when using the autohinter (or not using the bytecode interpreter)
Comment 6•16 years ago
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(In reply to comment #4) > Martin, what distribution are you using? > > This is certainly bug 404637 > > Some distribution patch Cairo so that you get less color fringes when not using > the autohinter. Ubuntu
Comment 7•14 years ago
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Reporter, are you still seeing this issue with Firefox 3.6.13 or later in safe mode or a fresh profile? If not, please close. These links can help you in your testing. http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Safe+Mode http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles You may also wish to try with the latest Firefox 4 beta, http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-beta.html.
Whiteboard: [CLOSEME 2011-1-30]
Comment 8•13 years ago
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No reply, INCOMPLETE. Please retest with Firefox 3.6.13 or later and a new profile (http://support.mozilla.com/kb/Managing+profiles). If you continue to see this issue with the newest firefox and a new profile, then please comment on this bug.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → INCOMPLETE
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