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		PascLeRasc on May 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Switch from Chrome to Firefox I really want to switch to Firefox. I don't need it to be better-performing than Chrome on my work PC or Safari on my home machine - I want to support free software. But Firefox's text just looks bad, like really bad. On both a retina Mac screen and 24" 1080p monitors on Windows at work, the fonts look pixelated and blurry, like there's something around the edges of the characters. Contrast seems off too, much lower than Chrome or Safari presents text, which makes it hard to read. PDFs in the browser are especially awful to look at. Has anyone else had this experience and found a fix?

asadotzler on May 30, 2019 [–]

Can you share some screenshots? IMO, text looks somewhat better in Firefox than in other browsers.

PascLeRasc on May 31, 2019 | | [–]

Here's an example: https://imgur.com/a/fWRwTf7

Chrome is on the left, Firefox is on the right. In my opinion, Firefox's text looks terrible.

sound1 on May 30, 2019 | | [–]

Same thoughts! Firefox is MUCH better at font rendering in my experience. (Also MUCH faster with uBlock Origin and uMatrix)

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