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Firefox 4: text suddenly thinner or something...hard to read...help?

UnderwhelmingUnderwhelming myMomIsTheJam July 13, 2013Registered User regular
edited June 2011 in Help / Advice Forum
So I've been using Firefox 4. Yesterday, all of a sudden, all the text is hard to read. Parts of letters are really thin or missing or something. It's hard to explain. It's not smaller, just different. Even if I scale the text size up or down with ctrl+mousewheel. It's just bigger/smaller and hard to read, same as before.

I realize this isn't much to go on. Based on this, does anyone have a clue what happened? Is it a browser setting? A windows setting? I haven't messed with any settings that I know of in a long time.

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  • OrogogusOrogogus San DiegoRegistered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Windows has Cleartext settings under the display control panel (under Windows 7, anyway). Or maybe the graphics driver got borked and it's reverting to the default VGA driver? These would affect everything, but might be most noticeable in the web browser. Does IE look just as bad? Is "Firefox -> Tools -> Options -> Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Advanced -> Fonts for" set to Western?

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  • EggPuppetEggPuppet Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Try Firefox>Options>Advanced> change "Use hardware acceleration when available"

    Also maybe try adjusting Windows' cleartype settings if you're on a version of Windows that has them.

    e: Restart Firefox after these changes.

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  • UnderwhelmingUnderwhelming myMomIsTheJam July 13, 2013 Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    IE does look just as bad and Firefox's font is set to Western. I'll check my graphics driver. Any other suggestions?

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  • UnderwhelmingUnderwhelming myMomIsTheJam July 13, 2013 Registered User regular
    edited June 2011
    Excellent, I found my graphics settings and tweaked them a bit. The graphics program defaults to 1368ish x something and when I set it back to 1024 x 768 the problem went away.

    Thanks everyone. Solved.

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