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How do I disable font smoothing/hinting/anti-aliasing on Firefox 4?

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Full disclosure: I'm predominantly a Chrome user on Windows, but I finally let Firefox download and install the latest version, 4.0. Considering this version has been in development forever, I frankly expected better. It appears that they've "improved" text rendering by applying font smoothing or a…

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Fix for: How do I disable font smoothing/hinting/anti-aliasing on Firefox 4?

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Navigate to Find the item labeled , and change its value to . This turns off hardware acceleration and should make your fonts more readable.

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