979349 - Fonts in firefox 27.0.1 looks so rough

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Graphics: Text, defect)

Description

[varghesethomase]

Attachment: Screenshot from 2014-03-04 21:47:28.png

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140214013806

Steps to reproduce:

Dont actually remember how it happened. But One day the default font style turned out to be so badly rendered. 


Actual results:

Rendering of font so noisy


Expected results:

Good and smooth fonts

Comment 1

[YF (Yang)]

Please try to turn off 'hardware acceleration' option.
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/upgrade-graphics-drivers-use-hardware-acceleration#w_turning-off-hardware-acceleration

Comment 2

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

I can't reproduce this issue neither with Firefox 27.0.1 nor with latest Nightly on Ubuntu 13.10 x86 with hardware acceleration on.

Reporter, please try the suggestion from comment 1.

You can also try the following :

1) try this with a clean profile: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-and-remove-firefox-profiles

2) running in Safe mode: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/troubleshoot-firefox-issues-using-safe-mode

Comment 3

[Jonathan Kew [:jfkthame]]

It looks like for some reason the sans-serif font used in the web page is being rendered with no antialiasing (although AA is enabled for other fonts, in the browser chrome and even the monospace font used for the Github clone URL).

It's possible this might be caused by fontconfig settings on the local system, rather than an issue within Firefox itself.

Comment 4

[varghesethomase]

The versions has been updated and think this bug is no longer a valid one. Thanks.