497159 - Text is blurred, probably antialias is not working correctly

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 458612

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Giorgio Sironi]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4

After downloading a fresh new 3.5beta4 and uncompressing it in /opt on Ubuntu 9.04, text appear blurred in webpages, menus, and all over the firefox window.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open firefox 3.5
Actual Results:  
Text blurred and bigger.

Expected Results:  
Text should respect gnome settings.

I will attach /etc/fonts folder and a screenshot.

Comment 1

[Giorgio Sironi]

Attachment: Screenshot of text blurring problem

Compare the file|edit|view menus with the ubuntu applications|places|system on top

Comment 2

[Giorgio Sironi]

Attachment: /etc/fonts on the system

/etc/fonts of the ubuntu 9.04 system where I encountered the bug. Firefox 3.0 works fine.

Comment 3

[Sylvain Pasche]

See bug 491626 comment 2 or http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6986051&postcount=7 for workarounds.