Increasing font rendering

[Paul Smith]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Tim <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>  > How can I improve the quality of the way my fonts are displayed?
>  > (Please, see the attached screen-shot.)
>
>  Is it just programs like Firefox and Thunderbird that look bad?  They
>  seem to introduce their own ideas about font rendering to the equation.
>  The font preferences manages to set things right for just about
>  everything, but them.

Thanks, Tim. Yes, the problem is only with Firefox and Thunderbird.
What can I do?

Paul