Josh

I'm a developer in Melbourne, Australia, and co-founder of Hello Code.

Published Wed 30 November 2011

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Fix Firefox 5+ font rendering in Windows

If you use Firefox 5, 6, 7, 8, or greater in Windows, without ClearType, you've probably noticed how abysmal the font rendering is.

However, there's an easy fix. In about:config, find the preference gfx.direct2d.disabled and toggle this to true. Restart and your fonts will now look as they used to, which is to say, not nearly as horrible.

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