Comment 180 for bug 67226

I was going to submit for a new bug, but this is exactly the same thing here. Xft and Cairo color fringing has been a long standing problem, and David Turner (you know, Mr. Freetype) wrote a patch addressing it loooong time ago. Somehow the Freedesktop.org people just wouldn't accept it, then again they don't always make the best decisions when it comes to font rendering. However, since Mozilla by default uses embedded libcairo, I really don't see any reason the patch can't be applied when building. Turner patches can be found on his site at freetype:

http://david.freetype.org/lcd/

which will not work for current versions of Cairo now, but there's the ubuntu patch derived from it:

http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/c/cairo/cairo_1.8.6-1ubuntu2.diff.gz

I also have my own version adapted from Turner's original patch that applies cleanly against cairo 1.8.* -- which is the sole reason I build Firefox from source on my laptop. It would be great if Mozilla can just apply this patch when building release binaries, as it would save a lot of eyesore for users.