Firefox 3.6 font smoothing does not honor gnome-settings

I can confirm this. In Ubuntu 9.10, font rendering in Firefox was perfectly fine. After 10.4 upgrade, Firefox nolonger renders fonts as specified in gnome's appearance settings. It is like it is doing it's own antialiasing, but ignoring the subpixel smoothing options.

I have attached a screenshot comparing Firefox and Chromium, along with the appearance properties dialog, and character map. In this screenshot, Firefox is rendering fonts incorrectly.

This also seems to affect Thunderbird in Ubuntu 10.4.

Anyone know of any temp. workarounds/hacks to get FF 3.6 to not anti-alias the fonts? Just wondering. Thanks and glad to see this as a bug already.

UPDATE/FYI:

On 'Ubuntu 10.04 LTS - the Lucid Lynx' w/ Firefox 3.6.3 and GNOME font smoothing OFF, I have successfully done the following to get fonts to appear in FF as they do on my GNOME desktop:

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sudo rm /etc/fonts/conf.d/10*
sudo dpkg-reconfigure fontconfig
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This was taken from here:
http://www.webupd8.org/2009/07/fix-fonts-in-firefox-35-and-ubuntu.html

It is a FF 3.5 hack but worked for 3.6.3. Setting up .fonts.config did NOT work for me and in fact I had to remove it after performing the above to get the fonts to appear properly.

Anyway, my system looks complete now and my Fonts OCD can subside :)

Cheers,

Great, #4 worked for me.

Just execute the two lines and restart FF.

Thanks!

@tehmasp, @Tobias:

Actually, it's enough to remove /etc/fonts/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf only. There's no need to remoev all the /etc/fonts/conf.d/10* files.

BTW, this bug seems to be a duplicate of bug #379761.

Makes sense - If I feel like it I'll re-create the others. The directory is only symlinks - I 'backed' up the config. before doing the deletes - below for reference:

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root@HP-PROBOOK:/etc/fonts/conf.d# ls -l 10*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2010-05-13 19:14 10-antialias.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-antialias.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 2010-05-13 19:14 10-hinting.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-hinting.conf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 36 2010-05-13 19:14 10-hinting-slight.conf -> ../conf.avail/10-hinting-slight.conf
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Yeah, seems like a dup and I looked at that page too - but as I searched that and other stuff - there were so many opinions about what worked and what didn't - I just wanted to recapture it here after I tried my hand at it.

Cheers,

This is not the same a bug 379761, that is for font hinting, this is for Font smoothing.

In this context, "hinting" and "smoothing" mean the same thing.