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No subpixel font smoothing with firefox on intel mac?
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For some reason, I don't get subpixel font smoothin in firefox, thunderbird or camino. Camino renders correctly in it's "chrome", but not it's web page. I've searched the net, but the only reference I could find was this flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/neilio/143516118/
Does anyone know what's going on? I can get proper font rendering by using Safari, but as a web developer I need firefox in my daily work..
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If this really only affects QuickDraw, then you should be able to circumvent the problem by installing Silk from Unsanity.
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Originally Posted by Tsilou B.
If this really only affects QuickDraw, then you should be able to circumvent the problem by installing Silk from Unsanity.
Not it shouldn't. Camino and Firefox enable Quartz text smoothing in QuickDraw text themselves already.
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So can someone else confirm that they have the same problem? Just open DigitalColor Meter and hover over text in your browser.
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Uh, plenty of subpixel smoothing going on on my machine (FF1.5.0.4, OS X 10.4.6).
Are you looking at a screen font? Because if you are, it's not supposed to be antialiased.
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Are you running on an intel machine? I'm on a macbook pro, 10.4.6, ff 1.5.0.4, tb 1.5.0.4.
Am thinking maybe i've messed some fonts in my installation?
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Ok, from my findings it appears to happen only on intel macs. Still waiting for confirmation from other intel mac users..
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firefox is definitely font smoothed on my machine
maybe you should check to see if you have the latest version of FF?
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If you look at his flickr link, you'll see that the fonts are still smoothed, but not with subpixel rendering.
TETENAL is right, of course. Sorry. This issue cannot affect "real" QuickDraw text rendering, because QuickDraw itself never uses subpixel rendering.
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It seems to work again after updating to 10.4.7.
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Agreed; the 10.4.7 update seems to have fixed this issue with Firefox. The text antialiasing is noticeably better.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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Is this only an Intel thing? Firefox on my iBook doesn't look any different in 10.4.7.
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Last edited by wataru; Jun 29, 2006 at 09:05 PM.
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Yes must have been intel only.
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Originally Posted by wataru
Is this only an Intel thing? Firefox on my iBook doesn't look any different in 10.4.7.
PowerPC G4/400. It worked fine for me.
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You are in Soviet Russia. It is dark. Grue is likely to be eaten by YOU!
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