Suggestion: Use Liberation fonts as default in Firefox 3

Naheem Zaffar naheemzaffar at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 14:53:28 UTC 2008


It is not as simple as that.

>From my experience Liberation Sans is a good replacement for Arial.
But for "Verdana", DejaVu Sans seems to do a better job.

On 28/01/2008, Mark <markg85 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I have Firefox 3 now on Fedora rawhide and i really disliked the
> default fonts so i played a little with it till i got acceptable
> results. here are a few screenshots:
>
> 1: [1] Default Firefox 3
> 2: [2] Firefox 3 with Liberation fonts
> 3: [3] The settings i changed
>
> As you can see in [2] is that the fonts are looking just better. i
> can't make anything else out of it. I've also tested this font setting
> [3] on other sites like digg.com and the fedora wiki and it looks
> better everywhere. So i really hope this could be made default for
> Fedora 9 with Firefox 3.
>
> Side note: that extremely big close button in FF3 is extremely ugly!
>
> [1] http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/6141/firefoxdefaultpf5.png
> [2] http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/6871/firefoxliberationax1.png
> [3] http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7083/firefoxfontsnu7.png
>
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