{"id":5408,"date":"2011-03-26T20:23:43","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T19:23:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/?p=5408"},"modified":"2011-03-26T20:24:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T19:24:38","slug":"schriftglaettung-im-firefox-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/2011\/03\/26\/schriftglaettung-im-firefox-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Font smoothing in Firefox 4"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Firefox\"<\/a>
Firefox<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Since the new Firefox 4 is out, many people are being brought to my website again, because they searched for keywords like “anti-aliasing”, “ClearType” or “font smoothing”. They then discover my two year old article Anti-Aliasing in Firefox<\/a>, which describes how to enable ClearType in Windows XP – where it is not enabled by default after installation.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

But with the new Firefox, some people still get blurred and illegible fonts, even though they have ClearType enabled. The problem seems to be fairly widespread, as this thread<\/a> in the Mozilla forum shows, and apparently it happens most frequently with ATI graphics cards. I’m pretty sure the problem will be fixed soon, but for the moment I have found two different solutions:<\/p>\r\n\r\n

\"Anti-Aliasing<\/a>
Anti-Aliasing Tuner<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n
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  1. Enter about:config<\/code> in the address bar, find the key gfx.direct2d.disabled<\/code> and double-click it, so the font turns bold and the value changes to “true”.<\/li>\r\n
  2. Install the addon Anti-Aliasing Tuner<\/a> and try various settings, until the font looks good. I myself only needed to go to the “Large Font” section and change “Anti-Aliasing Mode” to “Default” and “Rendering Mode” to “GDI Classic”.<\/li>\r\n<\/ol>\r\n\r\n

    It seems that many people don’t consider the first option a real solution, because it will disable hardware acceleration, which, in their opinion, is just one of the greatest improvements of the new browser. Personally, I haven’t noticed any difference while surfing, however, I opted for the addon on principle. ;)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Since the new Firefox 4 is out, many people are being brought to my website again, because they searched for keywords like “anti-aliasing”, “ClearType” or “font smoothing”. They then discover my two year old article Anti-Aliasing in Firefox, which describes how to enable ClearType in Windows XP – where it is not enabled by default after […]","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139],"tags":[325,529,327,53,326,324],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5408"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5421,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5408\/revisions\/5421"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ginchen.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}