FireFox fonts are driving me crazy

keybreak · November 11, 2020, 5:39pm

@Kresimir said it first:

gjee · November 11, 2020, 10:42pm

only problems with fonts in firefox for me get solved by installing ttf-ms-fonts from AUR

CMarch · November 11, 2020, 11:37pm

Thanks @Alexander for posting this problem and @keybreak for posting the solution. I never realized font renditions looked so terrible in Firefox and a few other apps. Applied this fix on both my desktop and laptop. Night and day.

Alexander · November 12, 2020, 12:47am

I’m glad it worked out for you!

Sojiro84 · November 19, 2020, 11:28pm

I did the tweak on my Cinnamon DE and I think I see a change. I probably should have made a screenshot from before. But I think think the letters look better now.

Christopher67 · November 20, 2020, 2:05am

I just did it on my Arch Cinnamon DE, seems to have worked.

Pudge · January 21, 2021, 8:58pm

keybreak:

Exit Firefox

Create symlink to activate lcd filter
sudo ln -s /etc/fonts/conf.avail/11-lcdfilter-default.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/
fc-cache --force
If it helps, all thanks goes to stupid new defaults for fontconfig. which doesn’t use lcd filter by default

Has this been remedied or is this still necessary. Anyone know?

Pudge

Christopher67 · January 21, 2021, 10:52pm

I haven’t done it on Arch/Xfce or EOS Plasma and it seems like its not needed, according to my eyes anyway lol.