default fonts in Firefox for Fedora look very bad

[Marius Andreiana]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 11:44 PM, Martin Sourada
<martin.sourada at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that gecko respects system wide settings (sans size; come to
> think of it, why is the font size in firefox apparently measured in
> pixels instead of the usual typographic units [pt]?) as I have nice
> fonts in (almost) default rawhide installation with subpixel hinting
> turned on (and size toned down a bit) and it looks in firefox just the
> same as in the rest of the desktop (and to say, much better than the
> screenshots from both windows and fedora you provided, at least on my
> laptop).
What could be done so it works this way out of the box, rather than
having users change various settings to make them look better?

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Marius Andreiana