[Bug 559149] Re: Firefox 3.6 font smoothing does not honor gnome-settings

[MichaelM]

I can confirm this. In Ubuntu 9.10, font rendering in Firefox was
perfectly fine. After 10.4 upgrade, Firefox nolonger renders fonts as
specified in gnome's appearance settings. It is like it is doing it's
own antialiasing, but ignoring the subpixel smoothing options.

I have attached a screenshot comparing Firefox and Chromium, along with
the appearance properties dialog, and character map. In this screenshot,
Firefox is rendering fonts incorrectly.

This also seems to affect Thunderbird in Ubuntu 10.4.

** Attachment added: "Screenshot.png"
   http://launchpadlibrarian.net/47710955/Screenshot.png

** Description changed:

  Binary package hint: firefox
  
  Firefox 3.6 font smoothing does not honor gnome-settings.
  
  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
  Package: firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-19.28-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
  Uname: Linux 2.6.32-19-generic x86_64
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Apr  9 13:45:33 2010
  FirefoxPackages:
-  firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
-  firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
-  firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
-  abroswer N/A
-  abrowser-branding N/A
+  firefox 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
+  firefox-gnome-support 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
+  firefox-branding 3.6.3+nobinonly-0ubuntu1
+  abroswer N/A
+  abrowser-branding N/A
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
  ProcEnviron:
-  PATH=(custom, user)
-  LANG=de_DE.utf8
-  SHELL=/bin/bash
+  PATH=(custom, user)
+  LANG=de_DE.utf8
+  SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: firefox

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Firefox 3.6 font smoothing does not honor gnome-settings
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