Turn font smoothing off in Firefox 3

[akadmon]

I'm using TinkerTool to turn off font smoothing in Leopard (I prefer sharper, clearer outlines to the fuzz of smoothed fonts). For some reason Firefox does not seem to cooperate. Below is a sample of text from Firefox and Safari.

 

[clevin]

i dunno know the answer, but you might try to install some bitmap font and use it everywhere in firefox...

 

[akadmon]

i dunno know the answer, but you might try to install some bitmap font and use it everywhere in firefox...

OK, I must admit -- I've never installed any third party fonts, so I'm not sure where to turn. Can you point me in the right direction?

 

[clevin]

I only installed font in linux, so not exactly expert on this neither, try goto http://www.dafont.com/bitmap.php and download some fonts, and open font book of OSX, see if there is a way to install them.

PS. if everything goes fine, dont forget to uncheck "allow webpage use their own fonts" in preference panel.

 

[jsony2k]

I'm using TinkerTool to turn off font smoothing in Leopard (I prefer sharper, clearer outlines to the fuzz of smoothed fonts). For some reason Firefox does not seem to cooperate. Below is a sample of text from Firefox and Safari.

Try this:

Enter about:config in the Location Bar.
Enable the gfx.use_text_smoothing_setting (filter: gfx.use
Restart Firefox browser!

http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.php?title=Gfx.use_text_smoothing_setting&printable=yes&printable=yes

 

[clevin]

great new stuff, thanks for the info.

This will allow firefox to honor the OSX system AA settings.