Using Manjaro. I'm noticing Firefox has slightly crisper, sharper rendering with better spacing. Is there a way I can improve PM's font rendering closer to Firefox?
Using the community repository Pale Moon and default pre-installed Firefox.
Pale Moon font rendering worse than Firefox?
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Re: Pale Moon font rendering worse than Firefox?
Font kerning and rendering depends very much on how your system is set up on Linux. There are many moving parts involved including system-wide font configuration, X, etc.
However, you may be able to get a result more to your liking by enabling Skia for your content rendering instead of Cairo.
To do so, go to about:config, fine the preference gfx.content.azure.backends and change the contents to read "skia,cairo" -- a restart of the browser is required.
Note: Use of Skia for content is at your own risk -- we do not test or develop against that rendering back-end for content and it may have bugs or glitches.
However, you may be able to get a result more to your liking by enabling Skia for your content rendering instead of Cairo.
To do so, go to about:config, fine the preference gfx.content.azure.backends and change the contents to read "skia,cairo" -- a restart of the browser is required.
Note: Use of Skia for content is at your own risk -- we do not test or develop against that rendering back-end for content and it may have bugs or glitches.
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Re: Pale Moon font rendering worse than Firefox?
I compared a couple screenshots with Skia and Cairo and it's the exact same. My font options are pretty much default, not sure what's causing this disparity. Guess I'll ask Manjaro forums.