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try67
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March 10, 2016
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Forum font blurry in FireFox 45.0

  • March 10, 2016
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Just wanted to ask if anyone else is experiencing a very blurry font in these forums after upgrading to Firefox 45.0? And if anyone know of a solution, of course...

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    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    April 23, 2016

    Still looks bad in Firefox / Win 7 (two independent desktop systems).

    BUT looks good in Firefox / Win 10 on a laptop.

    Firefox set to auto-update everywhere, so all latest versions. No idea what's going on here.

    try67
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    try67Community ExpertAuthor
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    April 23, 2016

    Yeah, I'm on Win 7 as well and it still looks the same with the latest

    version of Firefox.

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    PBArtattack
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    April 22, 2016

    Has anyone noticed you no longer need jscher2000's CSS defs since the Forum update?

    try67
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    try67Community ExpertAuthor
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    April 22, 2016

    I tried it after the update but it's still quite blurry.

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    PBArtattack
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    April 22, 2016

    Interesting. I deleted the CSS from userChrome (I'd decided to disable Stylish) and print in the Forums looks clean in my browser.

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    PBArtattack
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2016

    There is a solution to the Forum fonts problem — it involves installing the Stylish extension and then installing a script that the gentleman who was helping me came up with. It basically replaces the remote Adobe fonts with whatever your browser's fallback font is, Arial or Helvetica Neue. It works as if you were unchecking the "Allow pages to choose their own fonts..." option, but only for Adobe Forum pages, nothing else. Go to Font rendering problem in Firefox 45.* | Firefox Support Forum | Mozilla Support and check it out.

    Why Firefox is doing this remains a mystery, but at least there's a workaround.

    try67
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    try67Community ExpertAuthor
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    March 27, 2016

    I can confirm that installing Stylish and the font definitions posted by jscher2000 does indeed solve the problem (at least on these forums).

    Thanks for the update!

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    PBArtattack
    Inspiring
    March 27, 2016

    You're welcome!

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    PBArtattack
    Inspiring
    March 26, 2016

    Agreed. So I have belled the cat by submitting a question to Mozilla. Go here for all the exciting developments — https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1115893 .

    try67
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    try67Community ExpertAuthor
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    March 26, 2016

    Good idea... I +1 it.

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    PBArtattack
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    March 26, 2016

    And I thought it was just me. (I've always had this ego problem.)

    The only solution I've found is to go into Options (about:preferences#content), click Fonts & Colors > Advanced and uncheck "Allow pages to choose their own fonts, instead of my selections above".

    A is with it checked, B unchecked.

    Bit of a pain for one set of forums...

    try67
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    try67Community ExpertAuthor
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    March 26, 2016

    The problem is that that screws up a bunch of other sites...

    On Sat, Mar 26, 2016 at 7:32 PM, PBArtattack <forums_noreply@adobe.com>

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    March 24, 2016

    Slightly better now (45.0.1), but there's still something funny going on.

    No ClearType even though it's turned on in system, and the kerning is shot to h*ll. And what's with the "d"s?:

    So all in all it's readable, but still annoying. Does anyone know what's going on here?

    All default settings in Firefox's font rendering.

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    March 11, 2016

    Yes, been bothering me too, and I was about to send off a similar post when I saw this.

    Will try the clear type setting. Other than that I hope the next FF update fixes it.

    try67
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    try67Community ExpertAuthor
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    March 11, 2016

    It didn't really help me, I have to say...

    D Fosse
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    D FosseCommunity Expert
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    March 11, 2016

    Nope, didn't do anything.

    I'm out of my comfort zone on this, but if the forum site is supposed to load a Typekit font, I get a vague feeling that's not happening. The font I see in Firefox now (badly at that) seems different from what I see in other browsers.

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    Dave Merchant
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    March 11, 2016

    I'm seeing a font weight difference (FF45 is rendering heavier). Can't yet tell if it's a Firefox problem or a glitch with the Typekit data, but nobody's opened a bug at Mozilla.

    Here's a comparison, FF45 and Chrome 50 (click to zoom):

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    Dave Merchant
    Legend
    March 11, 2016

    One potential solution - in Firefox open about:config and change gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode to 0. That forces Cleartype to kick in for every font.

    try67
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    try67Community ExpertAuthor
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    March 11, 2016

    Trying it now... Thanks!

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