474554 - Unable to turn off anti-aliasing for fixed-width fonts

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 100564

(Thunderbird :: Mail Window Front End, defect)

Description

[Kay Roepke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_6; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.27.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/525.27.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1b3pre) Gecko/20081204 Thunderbird/3.0b1

On OS X, when trying to set Monaco as the default font for all types of fonts (Serif, Sans-Serif, Monospace) the text will still be anti-aliased, leading to very fuzzy font.
At the same time, font sizes 8-10 px appear exactly the same and do not even use Monaco.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use Thunderbird 3.0b1 on OS X.
2. Set the font preferences for "Western" to use Monaco for all fonts, set font size to 8, 9 or 10px.  
3. Open a plain-text messsage.
4. Use Pixie.app to compare Thunderbird's rendering to Mail.app's for the setting of Monaco 10. (I compared the letter 'J' here)
Actual Results:  
Thunderbird's font rendering is not correct, doesn't use Monaco. (And anti-aliasing cannot be turned off, even with the config editor)

Comment 1

[Kay Roepke]

Attachment: Mail.app's rendering of J in Monaco 10 (10pt, but still)

Comment 2

[Kay Roepke]

Attachment: Thunderbird's rendering when set to 10pt.

Comment 3

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

I think you'll like bug 345392, but maybe you'd rather have bug 100564 for some reason?

Comment 4

[Kay Roepke]

duh. i swear i searched. bug 100564 is indeed what it should be.
thanks for the pointer!

Comment 5

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

Duping, then.