Font Fun in OpenSolaris and Beyond
For the past few weeks, I've been running OpenSolaris 2008.11 on my main work notebook, in part because I'm working on a review of the OS, and in part because Linux's rough edges have grown a bit smooth to support the desktop tweaking and fiddling with which I like to sidetrack myself.
One of the roughest edges I've found on my OpenSolaris installation is the system's font rendering within the Firefox Web browser. Many of the pages I come across on the Internet render with chunky, pixelated looking fonts that remind me of Linux+Mozilla back when I was a fresher-faced analyst based out of eWEEK's one-time Medford location on the shores of the Mystic River.
The typical prescription for bad-looking Firefox fonts is a visit, within Firefox, to the Advanced Fonts dialog that lives at Edit-> Preferences-> Content-> Fonts&Colors-> Advanced, where you can bar Web pages from using any fonts but the particular San Serif, Serif, and Monospace font trio you ordain. I never like to do this, however, because this workaround tends to break Web page designs, squeezing and reshuffling everything as if you were browsing on a device with a too-small display.
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