830054 - Text rendering in FF18 is worse than FF17 in some scenarios

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 828206

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[Sam Etler]

Attachment: Example of poor looking text from FF18

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:18.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/18.0
Build ID: 20130104151948

Steps to reproduce:

Viewing Facebook.


Actual results:

Text is of poor quality (not smoothly rendered) in the default font that Facebook uses. This was not an issue with FF17. I downloaded it to compare and have taken screen shots.

I'm running OS X 10.6.8.


Expected results:

Text should look nice.

Comment 1

[Sam Etler]

Attachment: Example of good looking text from FF17

Comment 2

[Sam Etler]

When zooming into the attached png files it seems that there's issues with the sub-pixel rendering. In 17 you can see it's being done in color. In 18 it's not.

Comment 3

[Matthias Versen [:Matti]]

Do you mean bug 828206 ?

Comment 4

[Sam Etler]

Yes, looks exactly like Bug 828206.