If you’re running Firefox 4.0 b5 on Windows and you’ve suddenly noticed that your fonts look utterly hideous, you’re not the only one.
Direct2D & DirectWrite landed back in February, but were only turned on in nightly builds up until now. Suddenly with Beta 5, a lot of users, myself included, are noticing that their fonts look vomit-inducingly bad. Hardware acceleration is to blame.
If you have this problem, here’s a fix:
- Go into about:config
- Find
mozilla.widget.render-mode - Change the value from
-1to0 - Restart Firefox
Voilà, problem solved! Be sure to report that you have the issue in the Firefox feedback links.