- Oct 9, 1999
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I'm sure this is anything but a simple question, but I'm going to ask it anyhow: why does Firefox's hardware accelerated (Direct2D) text quality still suck?
Ever since Firefox 4 I've had the following text weight issue, which requires that I disable Direct2D. I check in on things periodically, but it's never fixed.
In short, Firefox is randomly adding and removing extra weight to text. I can open a page and get lightly weighted text, only to switch tabs and come back to heavily weighted text. Then I can highlight the text in question, and it once again becomes lightly weighted.
It wouldn't be so bad if it picked one or the other (though #2 looks more right to me), but it keeps going back and forth between the two. How is it that they haven't fixed this after all of this time?:|
Ever since Firefox 4 I've had the following text weight issue, which requires that I disable Direct2D. I check in on things periodically, but it's never fixed.
In short, Firefox is randomly adding and removing extra weight to text. I can open a page and get lightly weighted text, only to switch tabs and come back to heavily weighted text. Then I can highlight the text in question, and it once again becomes lightly weighted.


It wouldn't be so bad if it picked one or the other (though #2 looks more right to me), but it keeps going back and forth between the two. How is it that they haven't fixed this after all of this time?:|