584038 - Arial Hebrew bold is not smoothed well in Firefox 4 b2 (and current nightly)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics, defect)

Description

[Pavel]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8 GTB7.1 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b2) Gecko/20100720 Firefox/4.0b2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

Text using Arial Hebrew bold font is not smooth.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to http://www.ynet.co.il/home/0,7340,L-8,00.html

Actual Results:  
News titles' text is not smooth


See screenshots

Comment 1

[Pavel]

Attachment: good screenshot from firefox 3.6.8

Comment 2

[Pavel]

Attachment: bad screenshot from firefox 4b2

Comment 3

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

WFM using Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0b8pre) Gecko/20101214 Firefox/4.0b8pre ID:20101214030322

Can you test with the latest nightly:
http://nightly.mozilla.org/

And also with a new, empty profile?
http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Basic+Troubleshooting#Make_a_new_profile

Comment 4

[Pavel]

I'd say it is better than before, but still worse than FF 3.6.

Comment 5

[Pavel]

Attachment: Compare of ff 3.6 vs current nightly

Comment 6

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Can you compare with hardware acceleration in prefs ticked vs unticked (found options -> advanced -> general). You'll need to restart Firefox before the change takes effect.

Comment 7

[Pavel]

Turning hardware acceleration off fixes this.

Comment 8

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Does this still occur on the latest nightly?

If so, could you paste the contents of the graphics section at the bottom of about:support please.

Comment 9

[Pavel]

It looks like issue has been fixed in latest nightlies.

Comment 10

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

Great, marking WFM :-)

Comment 11

[Joshua Mitchell (Inactive)]

Issue is resolved - clearing old keywords - qa-wanted clean-up