873069 - Rendering of fonts in browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[lord.dapi]

Attachment: Rendering of fonts in Firefox and Google Chrome

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130511120803

Steps to reproduce:

I'm a web developer. Writing a new website, I saw, that bigger fonts in Firefox are simply ugly.


Actual results:

In attached screenshot, I used Ubuntu font, but the problem occurs also with standard fonts (eg. Arial). 


Expected results:

In attached screenshot we see, that Google Chrome rendering this font correctly. Similary Internet Explorer 10.

Comment 1

[Loic]

Provide a simple testcase, please.

Comment 2

[lord.dapi]

http://dapi.net.pl/beta/ < My testcase.

Comment 3

[Loic]

Likely issue with font antialiasing.

Comment 4

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

Looks like GDI rather than DirectWrite rendering. Is hardware acceleration disabled or not supported on your system? (Please post the Graphics section from about:support to confirm this.)

With h/w acc enabled (and hence DirectWrite font rendering), I'd say that (to my eyes) the Firefox font rendering looks -better- than Chrome's on my Win8 machine. But I agree that under GDI, it looks rough.

Comment 5

[lord.dapi]

Thank you. DirectWrite was disabled. Update graphics card drivers and changing the gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled to 'true' helped.

Problem solved, thank you again.