Tuesday, December 16, 2008

IE vs Firefox Font Rendering...What Gives?

I looked at an application today in both IE and Firefox. Well the fonts look like crap in Firefox, and seem to always look like crud in Firefox. So I finally googled why...turns out the problem is with Windows XP and not Firefox.

Here is the 5 second fix if you can wade through the ads-

http://liveslick.com/2007/09/22/why-is-internet-explorers-font-rendering-so-much-better-than-firefox-and-opera/

Wish I would have googled this a long long time ago...

[Update]
Note if you change the settings, the setting change is global and will affect more then just Firefox. You might possibly be able to download the power toy here-

http://www.microsoft.com/typography/cleartypepowertoy.mspx

Which might give you some additional options, but I haven't played with it.

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