Saturday, April 11, 2009

Improving Firefox's font display

As most of you know I am a huge Firefox fan, primarily because of the extnsions;
things I could not do without, like 'Better Gmail, DownloadHelper and Stop Autoplay.
All of which I have discussed in previous posts.
But one thing I wish Firefox did was 'render/display' pages as nicely as IE 7.
Because, with IE and XP/Vista using 'ClearType' and the 'Aero' interface pages just look great and I can read them very easily with my old eyes.
Here is a tweak I have used to enable much better font selections (for me anyways) in Firefox.
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Looks like the folks at life hacker have already done a great tutorial (better than mine) on it so go here:
http://lifehacker.com/5197352/force-firefox-to-use-windows-vista-cleartype-fonts

Please note that before you change ANYTHING take COMPLETE and thorough notes of your settings - ALL of them, in all tabs, in case you don't like what this does!!

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