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WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

fourwood posted:

I'm having a new font rendering problem. I think it cropped up when I upgraded to 18.0, but I haven't used this computer much for a few weeks so it could have been around in some 17.x version.

Gmail:

Twitter:

The comparison is to Chrome. Firefox is first in both images, and Chrome is second, and at 3x scale. The "Gmail" text and the "TWEETS/FOLLOWING/FOLLWERS" text are the biggest problems in these images.

I'm running Ubuntu 12.10 on a Dell laptop with Intel graphics. This doesn't seem to be a problem with most sites, or even all text on a problem site. And I haven't noticed any problems in any application outside of Firefox. I at least skimmed the about :config for anything with "font" in it and nothing seemed to suggest hinting/smoothing/subpixel rendering adjustments, so I'm at a loss. It's kind of starting to drive me nuts, though. Is there any way to fine-tune font rendering, or am I going to have to bug report this?

Exact same issue here.

Was sick of Chrome so switched to firefox today.

Complete fresh install of Firefox 18.01 and fonts look hosed up.

I've turned off hw acceleration too. No effect.

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 16:59

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

my stepdads beer posted:

All you font issue bros:

code:

    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled: true;
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading: false;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size: 6;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families: ''; (delete the string)
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode: 5;

edit: if you're on windows

This worked nicely for me, thanks!

# ¿ Jan 28, 2013 12:03

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

When in windowed-not-full view the Firefox menu button appears above the tab level which extends the title bar size to an unfortunate degree.

any way to resolve that?

# ¿ Jan 29, 2013 01:43

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

Tivac posted:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/tabs-always-in-titlebar/

Cheers.

The menu bar is not quite right when not maximized but it's a big improvement!

# ¿ Jan 29, 2013 13:43

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

What's the name of that tool which removes unwanted locales info from your extensions?

It was two .exe files (one for 7zip.exe, or something) which you placed in your extensions folder and it went through your extensions, unzipping them to remove the locales then re-zipping them.

I've been googling for this thing for ages

I first came across it on a korean website. The exe. name is something like hotfixest.exer or something. My memory lets me down again.

WastedJoker fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jan 29, 2013

# ¿ Jan 29, 2013 16:39

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

Mr Hands Colon posted:

I have read up on this thread with all the font rendering issues, but I keep having this problem for the past 2 months. I have tried to reset the browser, ran it in the safe mode, completely uninstalled & reinstalled Firefox, removed all addons, changed values in :config, and yet I still have this problem.

When I load Firefox, there are many sites that render the font like this. It seems to happen mostly in comment areas but also in the WYSIWYG editor for Wordpress. Here is how it will initially render (sorry for the content, it was the first instance I could find):

Everything looks normal. However, after a few page refreshes, this is how it looks:

I don't know what is causing this bolding of the font, but it keeps coming back. This is on Firefox 18.0.1. Any help or suggestions are appreciated.

edit: just realized that my images are terrible, but you can make out how bold the bottom version is. Sorry about that, didn't want to break tables.

This trick worked for me:

my stepdads beer posted:

All you font issue bros:

code:

    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.enabled: true;
    gfx.font_rendering.directwrite.use_gdi_table_loading: false;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_max_size: 6;
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.force_gdi_classic_for_families: ''; (delete the string)
    gfx.font_rendering.cleartype_params.rendering_mode: 5;

edit: if you're on windows

# ¿ Jan 30, 2013 11:22

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

WastedJoker posted:

What's the name of that tool which removes unwanted locales info from your extensions?

It was two .exe files (one for 7zip.exe, or something) which you placed in your extensions folder and it went through your extensions, unzipping them to remove the locales then re-zipping them.

I've been googling for this thing for ages I first came across it on a korean website. The exe. name is something like hotfixest.exer or something. My memory lets me down again.

Finally found this motherf...

http://www.techgravy.net/tip-speed-up-firefox-and-decrease-page-loading-time/

It basically removes all the locale info from your extensions/jar files then re-zips them up.

Some extensions don't like it - they'll show as "incompatible" after you've used this tool but a simple update of add-ons "fixes" it. Themes will also need re-enabling after running the tool.

It's not worth running if you only use 3/4 extensions but if you're a heavy extension user, it does make a difference.

# ¿ Feb 3, 2013 09:50

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

If I'm viewing a SA forum page with a load of embedded video, any flash video loaded in other tabs will crash or the embedded videos will crash even if I've already fully loaded the page.

For example, I could fully load a page on cute animals with 10-15 embedded youtube videos. They'll all show their thumbnail etc and I will open one in a new tab - either every embedded video crashes or the newly loaded youtube tab crashes.

Any ideas what I can do to prevent this?

# ¿ Jul 3, 2013 21:28

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

4 tabs open and FF 25 is using 700mb of RAM :psyduck:

My work pc only has 2 bloody GB of it and this is really hammering my multitasking ability.

What are good tips for minimizing FF memory usage? I only have 2 add-ons - Fire IE and Stylish.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2013 09:26

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

Alereon posted:

See if disabling FireIE does it, if not try a clean Firefox profile, that is not normal behavior. Also you may not be able to control this but having old video drivers will murder performance on lower-end systems since it disables hardware cceleration.

I really can't do without an IE emulator in FF since a few critical work sites only support IE (I know!) but I will look at updating drivers. I have full admin right so it should be doable.

By the way, would moving to Pale Moon version of FF be advisable alternative if I wished to revert back to 24?

# ¿ Nov 20, 2013 17:40

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

I'm trying to find that utility which automatically strips out unwanted locales from extension xpi files to shrink them and reduce memory footprint. You can do it manually but it's a faff.

Anyone got the link? It's a Korean utility which isn't making finding it easy.

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 16:59

WastedJoker: Oct 29, 2011; Fiery the angels fell. Deep thunder rolled around their shoulders... burning with the fires of Orc.

Atrocious Pirate posted:

Took 15minutes to re-find the post

http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&threadid=3431449&perpage=40&pagenumber=57#post412165292

http://www.techgravy.net/tip-speed-up-firefox-and-decrease-page-loading-time/

website it's posted on

http://forum.moztw.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=30196&start=0

And direct download

DelFxExtLocal
http://forum.moztw.org/download/file.php?id=11938

Required 7zip
http://forum.moztw.org/download/file.php?id=11337

I posted the details in your first link :laffo:

I'm a failure of a human being

# ¿ Aug 31, 2014 20:13

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